Scooterz

OK, I got another one that happend this week (but it was a friend of mine in the office).

2002 Audi A4Q Turbo..... this is a car my buddy drove to work once that belongs to his kid. He syas there is "weird light" on the dash.... I look at it, it looks like a fat lady bending over or something... I have no idea what it means. The top-end of this car sounds so bad it sounds like a diesel.... terrible. 99,000 miles & it has a new water pump & timing belt replaced about 2 weeks ago. So anyways, I tell him: "that thing sounds bad"... he says: what could it be?? I say: lets take it to my friends shop who is an engine builder after work. So off we go- 3 miles later, it stalls & a little smoke comes out & she is dead. I hit the starter, classic timing belt sound... no top end rotating going on. We put it on a flat bed & take it to my buddy Joe. He looks it over & finds out about that "weird light" we saw. Joe says: "Uh oh... how long has it been on??" My friend says: "Off & on since we bought it about a year ago". Joe says: Well, that means that you have had little/no oil pressure for a year!!" "That light is pretty important". Turns out that poor engine ran for months & months w/ almost no oil pressure while his kid drove it to school everyday!! The whole motor is toast.... cam seized, top-end wasted...etc... probably bottom end is bad too. Moral of the story: a German idiot light may look like a fat lady bending over, but it is really the DRIVER who did not take the time to find out what it was!!!! LOL!!! It's going to be like 6 or 7K minimum. Scooter

Tod74

Maybe his kid is into fat chics and didn't want the light to go out.... :?

BEAST477

Hey Tod you the one on the left or right cheek??? LOL

MEMRACING62

HIGH MAINTENANCE!!! BARBECUE & PIZZA CAN GET EXPENSIVE :lol: :lol: :lol:

Tod74

I worked with a dude once whos father hired him 3 strippers for his 21st birthday.The company was called "Tons of Fun" I think. Guess what they looked like....LOL

CamBirdRacing

Swivel socket that I dropped, landed I guess between the tranny shield and tranny. Starter guy gave it back to me on the next pass. I wondered if I would ever find it again. Was already saving money to buy a new one.

txhunter69

well i was at a texaco not to long ago when the starter went out on my truck and me and bowhay skipped class to fix it
did it right there in front of the doors

and also today i found a full grown cat in the engine bay of a brand new malibu poor thing didnt get hurt but he sure was scared[/i]

speedinta

This happened to me when I was racing stock cars. I was dressed and in the pits waiting for the feature race when my 14 year old son asked for money for a hot dog. My wife took my wallet out her her purse and gave him some money and I assumed she put my wallet back in her purse.
Well the track official waved for us to enter the track for the feature race and I got in my 77 culass super stock and entered the track. The race was more of a demolition derby actually because I hit and bounced off of almost every car on the track finishing 8th. As I left the track surface the corner man raced out to my car and reached into the space between the windshield and the hood and pulled out my wallet!!! Apparently my wife had put my wallet on the hood and forgot about it! I ran the whole race with the wallet there until the corner worker came over and said, " I think this belongs to you".

markthespark

We lived in northern Indiana and was on our way to Martin Michigan to race. It took about 3 hours to get there. About an hour and a half into our trip, the drivers side header broke on our dually. It was so loud inside that you could not hear the radio. My three daughters and wife were hidding there heads and covering there ears the rest of the way. Then we had to drive home, fun.

markthespark

Was at the Super Chevy Show in Indy at IRP Raceway. We got runner up in the gambler,s race they had Saturday night. It was about 11.30 at night when we pulled into our Hotel parking lot.There was about 200 people standing all over the place drinking and having fun. They had water on the ground for people to do burnouts. I was still pumped about getting runner up and it did'nt take to much yelling from the croud to get me to do a burn out with our dually. I pulled in the water pressed the brake pedal down, through it in low and gave it some gas. We had six people in the dually,most cheering the croud on, except my wife who was not to pleased but was quite. As she started to smoke and hook up, I gave her more gas and had to push the brake pedal down harder. What a show I was putting on. Then there was a loud pop and the brake pedal went to the floor. I had to let off the gas and pulled away like nothing happened. Broke a brake line to the back brakes. Was up untill 2 in the mourning blocking off the back brakes so we could get back to the track the next day.No auto parts stores were opened, ended up having to buy a $280 pre fit brake line kit from manufactors midway so we would be able to make the 3 hour drive home. Top it off, I went .499 red first round.