stupid questions about your car

[MustangChris]

Me: "hey there, i need the timing components to properly perform a PI swap on my mustang."
Ford Parts Guy: " You'll need to talk to the 'service' department on stuff like that."
Me: "hey there, i need the timing components to properly perform a PI swap on my mustang."
Ford Service Guy: "You'll need to talk to parts about that."
Me: "Service guy sent me back over here..."
Parts guy: "well, what is a 'pi swap'?"

 

[STR33TR]

Get this a/b 1x a month
random person: is that a factory color?
me: yes, it's Sapphire Blue.
rp: but it's purple.

 

[Gallows]

Is your car supercharged? Yes. So is it a 03 Cobra? No, it's a 97. And then things go progressively down hill from there

 

[bigjohnson4.6gt]

Thats got the 4.9 liter right?
No its a 4.6
Did you downgrade the engine?
No its stock
I dont think so, my buddy has a mach 1 and it came with a 4.9 liter

Same Person
See if we raced, my monte will have you off the line until you hit 2nd gear, cause you got lower gears when you shift into second gear, all mustangs have it

Same person on his Monte Carlo (some nascar edition, supercharged, FWD car)
"I gotta put the stock springs back in this and remove the lowering springs, I lost about 30RWHP when I installed the lowering springs"
"Check out my rotors, I just painted them"
Me: Theres nothing there
"Damn it probably didnt dry right"
"Dude I raced this guy in a GTO with an MSD ignition, I gotta get one of those, it will give me about 200hp extra"
He also stated that his monte put down 450 at the wheels and ran the quarter in 12.5 blowing the mickey thompsons up in smoke

I **** you not, these are actual quotations from this person

 

[Venom351R]

^^^^^ O.M.F.G :crybaby2:

 

[OnyxCobra]

man some of these are freakin funny

 

[Blakonblak94]

Had a fellow in an older BMW sedan that said his inline 6 would destroy me with the massive toque it put out. Although he also said his water pump didn't use bolts, it was only held in by pressure.

 

[Orange Stang]

i was sitting next to my bros GT500 and this crowd gathers around my 96 instead of the snake and was freaking out about it.

Then one goes
" Dude! is that a saleen!"

 

[mygreengt]

haha thats great

 

[danielson631]

i get asked if its a 6 or 8 cyl.

asked if its a 5.0, then they think bc its a 4.6 its weaker.

is that thing loud enough?

"your neighbors must love you when get home at 2am!"

"i bet that thing hauls ass doesnt it"

"what yr is that 2002?"

 

[2slo95fiveoh]

Apparantly You New York guys can trade with us Kansas guys, becuase everyone here (that doesn't know any better) assumes 94+ were
all 4.6s, and you guys are saying that everyone thinks that your 96-98s are 5.0s.... thats weird, or "we-yad" as yous guys are probably hearing it.
haha.

 

[Britt GT]

Apparantly You New York guys can trade with us Kansas guys, becuase everyone here (that doesn't know any better) assumes 94+ were
all 4.6s, and you guys are saying that everyone thinks that your 96-98s are 5.0s.... thats weird, or "we-yad" as yous guys are probably hearing it.
haha.

Yeah same here. I had a guy argue with me while I was standing beside my car with the hood up that Ford "only put 5.0s in Foxbodies, they never put a 302 in any other Mustang!" and that I had a "Foxbody motor".

 

[greenscobie86]

^^^^

Yup... Everyone that asks me about my car who "tries" to look like they know what theyre talking about ALWAYS assume that it's a 5.0... When I had my 96GT I had one guy argue with me that the badges on the side of my car were wrong...

Just remembered another funny quip;

A kid looked under the hood of my friends HCI 95GT for like 5 minutes straight when we we're chilling at some gas station..

After blankly looking at all the engine he says while pointing at the cold air intake: "Man, thats a nice turbo dude!!!"

I had to walk away for a while and laugh quietly to myself...

 

[mygreengt]

keep em coming! some of these make me el oh el

 

[RockstarMentality]

guy in a Scion TC givin me shit about having a Toyota engine in my old Pontiac G6 GTP...
old Pont GTP more than once:
idiot: Is it supercharged?
Me: No
idiot: yes it is, GTP means supercharged.
i couldnt tell you how many times ive had to pop the hood to prove to people it was N/A, then ppl still didnt believe me with the hood popped...

guy in a WRX - "It'll light em up in every gear" lol
"Thats a nice 302" (97 Cobra)
im sure everyones had "Why is your car so loud" and the "You think it could beat my (insert name of slow, POS, FWD economy car)?"
more than one person has referred to my centrifugal supercharger to a turbo. some people have identified the drive belt for it as an exhaust belt.

 

[CompOrangeSN95]

I pulled into the gas station with my fathers 07" GT500 and the attendant asked me if it had a V8 =facepalm=

 

[rick focks]

exhaust belt? you can''t beat that...

 

[CompOrangeSN95]

I was driving my 66' one day and had a guy following me so I pulled over, guy pulled over next to me and rolled his window down, mine was already down.
him-Oh man! This car is so awesome, is it a 62?
me-no it's a 66 mustangs came out in 64 1/2
him-oh that's so cool, 4 or 6?
me-it's an 8
him-nice, my neighbor has a 62 convertible
I shook my head and drove away

 

[ttocs]

I installed car audio and security for a long time and it was rare that we didn't have a stupid customer that didn't know anything about their own car.

A kid came in and had been to the swap meet and bought a $40 amp he wanted installed. I gave him the standard quote of $45 labor and $40 parts, and he said he would just do it himself so just sell him the parts. I rang them up and then he asked what all the wires get connected to? ah, ok the rca and remote wires go between the deck and amp, the speaker wires between the amp and speakers, power wire the battery, ground the the chassis and yer done! he looked at me very confused and asked where he would find the chassis on his car? ---- I had been working on this older guys car that was watching all of this from the waiting room, and I will never forget the look he gave behind the kids back. His head was directly behind the kids before he rolled his eyes and gave the funnies WTF look I had ever seen from a grandfather and I nearly lost it. After the kid left he gave the same look and asked where he could find the chassis?

I had another customer interested in a keyless entry but wasn't sure how they worked. after explaining it 2x I walked her out to my truck to give a live demo in hopes of it making sense to her. AFter I was done, she looked at me and all she could ask was that with this system installed, if I had her keys I could steal her car!? I didn't know how to respond other then to say that yes that is true, but even with out the system installed, if I had her keys I could steal her car. She still didn't get it.........

And I can't tell you how many times I had them on the phone to schedule an install appt and when I would ask what kind of car, they would tell me a blue one... I would ask if they knew the make or model and they would often tell me something like a chevy escort, 90's or so.... If I would tell them that chevy didn't make an escort then it would lead into a 10 min conversation ending with them tellin me I was wrong. I would just write their name and work to be done as no matter what if they said it was a blue 90 chevy escort somehow a silver or tan suburban would show up.


true stories, I was always amazed people could go out an buy a car stereo when they had no idea what kind of car theyhad.

 

[STR33TR]

I installed car audio and security for a long time and it was rare that we didn't have a stupid customer that didn't know anything about their own car.

A kid came in and had been to the swap meet and bought a $40 amp he wanted installed. I gave him the standard quote of $45 labor and $40 parts, and he said he would just do it himself so just sell him the parts. I rang them up and then he asked what all the wires get connected to? ah, ok the rca and remote wires go between the deck and amp, the speaker wires between the amp and speakers, power wire the battery, ground the the chassis and yer done! he looked at me very confused and asked where he would find the chassis on his car? ---- I had been working on this older guys car that was watching all of this from the waiting room, and I will never forget the look he gave behind the kids back. His head was directly behind the kids before he rolled his eyes and gave the funnies WTF look I had ever seen from a grandfather and I nearly lost it. After the kid left he gave the same look and asked where he could find the chassis?

I had another customer interested in a keyless entry but wasn't sure how they worked. after explaining it 2x I walked her out to my truck to give a live demo in hopes of it making sense to her. AFter I was done, she looked at me and all she could ask was that with this system installed, if I had her keys I could steal her car!? I didn't know how to respond other then to say that yes that is true, but even with out the system installed, if I had her keys I could steal her car. She still didn't get it.........

And I can't tell you how many times I had them on the phone to schedule an install appt and when I would ask what kind of car, they would tell me a blue one... I would ask if they knew the make or model and they would often tell me something like a chevy escort, 90's or so.... If I would tell them that chevy didn't make an escort then it would lead into a 10 min conversation ending with them tellin me I was wrong. I would just write their name and work to be done as no matter what if they said it was a blue 90 chevy escort somehow a silver or tan suburban would show up.


true stories, I was always amazed people could go out an buy a car stereo when they had no idea what kind of car theyhad.

lol... idiots.
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