How many tools have you gained?

mooseshaver · Post by **mooseshaver** » 18 Jun 2007, 14:16

After getting my car back from the garage, I noticed the bonnet did not shut properly and one side was not flush with the wing. I couldn't face going back to the garage to complain so left it a few days untill it bothered me enough to have a look. Found a screw driver down one side in the gap where it shuts. Shuts fine now.
Anyone else gained any tools or extras from garages? Gained a French menu translation book when I bought the C5. I guess it used to go across to France.

Ross_K · Post by **Ross_K** » 18 Jun 2007, 18:26

I found a tenner in change and a vibrator

under the back seat in the ZX after I bought it.

Never found any tools in the conventional sense though...

mooseshaver · Post by **mooseshaver** » 18 Jun 2007, 19:30

Ross_K wrote:I found a tenner in change and a vibrator

Thats very funny

weety · Post by **weety** » 18 Jun 2007, 19:32

when i twere a young lad me and my mate would always rescue damsels in distress when their cars broke down.....we would always leave phone numbers (in case the car broke down again) and a screwdriver rattling somewhere (just to encourage future contact to return the tools)

good plan...flawlessly executed .....totally unsuccessful

Post by **CitroJim** » 18 Jun 2007, 20:28

weety wrote:when i twere a young lad me and my mate would always rescue damsels in distress when their cars broke down.....we would always leave phone numbers (in case the car broke down again) and a screwdriver rattling somewhere (just to encourage future contact to return the tools)

good plan...flawlessly executed .....totally unsuccessful

Priceless

All I've ever found is a nice stubby screwdriver, still in productive use today

TehAgent · Post by **TehAgent** » 19 Jun 2007, 01:10

I've found

1 x dead fly
1 x spider trying to act like bird poop so i wouldn't eat it
2 x kids toys
1 x last years lunch down the back seat
4 quid
3 x screws from unknown origin
1 x screw driver from a car down the scrap yard
1 x wife in passenger seat looking at me funny

i still have the wife and screwdriver.

rowanmoor · Post by **rowanmoor** » 19 Jun 2007, 10:22

My wife (was only girlfriend at the time) got a car and after a while said to me - 'there is a clunk at the back'. So I gave it a rock - clunk-clunk. Looked under the rear wheel arch and found a monkey wrench clamped round the shock half way down and clanking against the spring either side of it.

weety · Post by **weety** » 19 Jun 2007, 10:27

rowanmoor wrote:My wife (was only girlfriend at the time) got a car and after a while said to me - 'there is a clunk at the back'. So I gave it a rock - clunk-clunk. Looked under the rear wheel arch and found a monkey wrench clamped round the shock half way down and clanking against the spring either side of it.

when you took it of did part of the shock come with it?

rowanmoor · Post by **rowanmoor** » 19 Jun 2007, 13:10

weety wrote:when you took it of did part of the shock come with it?

Surprisingly no. It was a new shock (in order to sell the car no doubt). The other side needed replacing a year or so later

The really mad thing is when we replaced the car we got the new one from the same place. It had 40K on it when we got it (yea, right - it was 8 years old), and we have since had a head gasket, new radiator, new clutch, wheel held on with the wrong size nuts and it still needs a new heater matrix and the roof is rusting under the paintwork.

You'd have thought I'd have learnt the first time

AndersDK · Post by **AndersDK** » 19 Jun 2007, 13:47

I thought you were punishing Haynes

weety · Post by **weety** » 19 Jun 2007, 15:13

rowanmoor wrote:
weety wrote:when you took it of did part of the shock come with it?
Surprisingly no. It was a new shock (in order to sell the car no doubt). The other side needed replacing a year or so later

The really mad thing is when we replaced the car we got the new one from the same place. It had 40K on it when we got it (yea, right - it was 8 years old), and we have since had a head gasket, new radiator, new clutch, wheel held on with the wrong size nuts and it still needs a new heater matrix and the roof is rusting under the paintwork.

You'd have thought I'd have learnt the first time

always a sign of skilled professionals replacing one suspension unit

KEB1 · Post by **KEB1** » 20 Jun 2007, 10:10

Though we didn't exactly gain the tool, we did have a similar situation with the CX.
Mum took it to the dealer to get some parts for the Dyane and when she was about to leave the CX wouldn't start.
The service manager as a gallant gesture rushed out, cleaned the plugs and slammed the bonnet down.
Anyway, when she got back dad noticed the headlight was cracked, opened the bonnet and found a foot long plug spanner trapped between the headlight and bonnet

The dealer gave us a new headlight for us to fit but took a little while to get round to it.
When we came to do the job, we found the guy had ordered the wrong one and these were not stock items

Moral "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"

All the best,

Kristian.