Customers and the funny things they say

Josh1979 - that is a fricking AWSOME sig line! LMMFAO!!

Here's another story ... just last week I installed a new radio in this tweaky dudes Z28 - a nice car & in good shape. Easy install, right? So, I get the job done. Mr. Tweak comes back to pick up the car an hour or so later. Tweak goes out to the car. About 30 minutes later, Mr. Tweak comes back into the shop, saying that I messed up how his steering wheel turns.

"Ummmmmmm ... dude, I didn't mess w/ the steering wheel - it isn't connected to the radio, man. All the electrical connections a made directly behind the radio."

"Well, something is different now".

"No, everything about you're steering wheel is just as it's always been." 

"Well, I'm just trying to figure out what happened ... I brought my car in here & the steering wheel worked. Now it doesn't. Can you at least look at it?"

"No - you're steering wheel works the way it is supposed to work. Dude, I just DROVE your car out of this shop. It works perfectly, man."

"Well - ok - but now it's different."

Tweak leaves the shop - but goes into the main store to talk to the salesman that he bought the radio from to complain.

The salesman calls me to ask "WTF is this nut talking about?"

I say  "Send that crazy tweaker back out here so I can Monkey Stomp his azz."

So, Tweak comes back out to the shop - I reluctantly go look at the car.

*Tweaker is spinning the wheel lock-to-lock* ... "See what I mean ... It didn't go this far before."

"Are you saying that I somehow changed the number of turns it takes to go from Full Left to Full Right?!!!"

"Well ... yeah ... I guess ... it never went this far before." *spinning wheel*

"The only way to change that is to have a Steering Rack from a Camaro Sport Coupe installed in place of the Z28 rack that came in your car, man. Even if I wanted to for some reason, there is no way I could go get the part & do the work in less that an hour - which is how long you left your car here, man."

*Dumbfounded Look From Tweaker* ... ummmmmm ...

"hmmm ... You don't know much about how cars work, do ya, man? That has positively NOTHING to do with your radio, dude. Your car works just as it always has. Take off, man."

Where's Darwin when ya need him? Some folks are waaaaay to stupid to drive.

So I had this guy show up for an alarm install and added on a prox sensor.  I asked him why he wanted it and he didn't really know.  The car was not convertable and he didn't leave the windwos down very often plus his windows were tinted with metallic tint which we all know makes prox sensors freak.I tell the guy, hey lets return that sensor and we'll use that labor to do a secondary starter kill relay.

Now this is key, I explained to the guy three times that once I was done he would need to depress the lock switch of the vehicle in order for it to start.  This is so that if a a thief was able to find the alarms starter kill and bypass it, they wouldn't find this one.  He was totally cool with it and even told me several times while he sat there watching me install it how cool it was.

Next day he comes back demanding that I remove it and add a trunk pop relay for free.  Normally I would hook up to a factory trunk popper for free but not after how this guy was yelling at my employees.  After proving the guy wrong several times and him basically telling me he is gonna shoot me, he leaves.  A few days later I get a letter from the local court stating that he filed a small claims case against the company requesting all his money be refunded plus and extra $150 in punitive damages!

Needless to say he did not win but about a week later I got a call from a guy at another store saying this guy was there complaining that because of my alarm, his windshield wiper fluid didn't come out as fast as it used to and his radio reception wasn't as good.

To Stupid TO Breath