Dirty Trick
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Printed Date: April 25, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Topic: Dirty Trick
Posted By: Ravendarat
Subject: Dirty Trick
Date Posted: December 01, 2004 at 8:47 PM
So I had to do a command start at work today on a 97 neon. Anyone who does command starts know this is about as easy as it gets. SO I get the thing done and all I have to do is the hood pin. I program the tach wire and try to start the car and it doesnt start, the locks work but the car wont start. So I check the hood pin and it seemed high enough so I held it down with my hand and it still didnt start. Starter confirmed programing but wouldnt start. So I decide to check the switch. Its turned on but still the car wont start. So I cut the switch right off and try just bypassing the switch all together. Still wont start. Now I am pissed. I pull the damn car apart and am checking out my wiring, and then I saw the problem. My boss went under the dash when I was out helping a customer and spliced into my hood pin wire and grounded it. I found this out after a good half hour to fourty minutes. He had went on lunch just before I got done under the hood so he was gone the whole time I wastrouble shooting this. I was so pissed off because it was a waste of my time. I didnt have any cars waiting or anything, its just a frustrating thing. So I did the only thing I could think of that was an acceptable punishment. He went for lunch with his girlfriend so he left his winter beater at the shop, so I put it on blocks and hide his wheels at various places around the building. It was a bittersweet victory, but Ill take it.
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double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer
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Posted By: auex
Date Posted: December 01, 2004 at 9:23 PM
I would have slim jimmed his doors, pour water on his seats and then rolled the windows down.
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Posted By: boxmaker85
Date Posted: December 01, 2004 at 10:02 PM
drain the radiator and fill it w/ water
Posted By: MAXST
Date Posted: December 01, 2004 at 10:13 PM
LMAO! Thats funny stuff. Remember...payback is a bitch. ------------- I need quality equipment, feel free to donate.
Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: December 01, 2004 at 10:20 PM
You are so lucky that I don't work with you dude.
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Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: December 01, 2004 at 11:05 PM
I think the punishment fit the crime, and by the way, his doors were unlocked so I could have done whatever I wanted inside his car, but I decided the wheels were funny enough
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double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer
Posted By: promodeepcycle
Date Posted: December 02, 2004 at 1:43 AM
reverse pol. the brake switch to the horn......and zip-tie the drive-line.....lol ------------- dont be a pet monkey ..use your dmm
Posted By: Teamrf
Date Posted: December 02, 2004 at 2:10 AM
Nothing like jokes in the bay...got to love it.
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Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: December 02, 2004 at 11:50 PM
I did the horn to the brake thing before but did it with a relay so it would honk the horn when you step on the brake but only when the headlights are on. That was awsome because then they dont even think it was you until they think about it for a while. Aslong as they take their car durring the day time
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double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer
Posted By: Asmodeus
Date Posted: December 07, 2004 at 11:55 AM
I was always partial to the whole bottle of baby powder in the AC Vents and the Fan on high....**POOF** instant albino...Just add laughter.... Or run a wire from say number 4 spark plug wire to the seat and watch them jump when they try to start the car.... -------------  Making the World A Louder Place
Posted By: BoominRolla
Date Posted: December 12, 2004 at 8:40 AM
We had a guy get pinned against a wall by the throat from another installer doing the brake switch horn thing... Apparently everyone thought it was funny except the guy who it happened to... It was his new truck and he's really anal about taking care of his stuff... But funny as hell...I've taken the factory key fob and hid around a corner before where I could see the installer and he couldn't see me and wait for him to tag a wire with a test light and set off the alarm or something... wait till they remote start and pop the trunk... that'll get you troubleshooting for awhile! I'm still waiting to get a certain installer back... From when I took his fresh mountain dew can and a snap on pick tool and poked about 6 lil holes right below the mouth of the can so when he took a drink he ended up wearing a couple tablespoons of it before he realized what was happening... PERFECT! hahahah
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Posted By: overworked
Date Posted: December 14, 2004 at 7:22 AM
HEH, we play all those sorts of tricks here in OZ as well Fish Oil down heater vents, wiring subs outta phase, changing firing order, connecting radio mute thru relay to brake pedal <~~~that one stumps them. Half a can of shaving cream up the pipe is cool as well, Xmas in July anyone? Swapped keyfobs but not the actual keys -------------
Posted By: archemedes
Date Posted: December 14, 2004 at 9:17 PM
we used to put the cars on blocks but just a couple inches off the ground, leave teh wheels on and see the frustration when they jump in and it won't move
Posted By: QuagmireMan
Date Posted: December 14, 2004 at 10:35 PM
i have glued everyones toolbox shut in my bay. :D
Posted By: SAR
Date Posted: December 17, 2004 at 4:40 PM
the funniest we did was hook a cig light up to a horn. push it it in and HONK. or change a cruise lever to a non cruise in my boses montana
Posted By: Mwsounds
Date Posted: January 05, 2005 at 6:08 PM
I programmed a spare remote so that as the guy walk away from his Tahoe, I would remote start it. Freaked him out so bad, that he wanted to take out the alarm. Maen while I was just inside the bay door rolloing on the floor!  ------------- Thanks,
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Posted By: Mwsounds
Date Posted: January 05, 2005 at 6:09 PM
I programmed a spare remote so that as the guy walk away from his Tahoe, I would remote start it. Freaked him out so bad, that he wanted to take out the alarm. Mean while I was just inside the bay door rolloing on the floor! ------------- Thanks,
Mike Ward
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Posted By: ilvwhtgrls
Date Posted: January 06, 2005 at 10:09 PM
we hooked up a pin switch, battery and siren to a cart of an installer coming back from vacation... I came in early the next day to see his reaction and it was classic.
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Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: January 07, 2005 at 11:40 AM
I'd have you up against the wall by the throat......only I d have you 10 inches off the ground WoW...you all sound like a first rate bunch of comics.......gettin any work done? -------------
Posted By: Mwsounds
Date Posted: January 07, 2005 at 1:36 PM
If we can't have any "Harmless Fun", Then what is the point?
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Thanks,
Mike Ward
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Posted By: foltzy
Date Posted: January 07, 2005 at 2:16 PM
I have called other local shops/stores asking if they had much experience with a 'wire stretcher'. i'd act like a customer thats running wire to a spkr location and coming up 5 inches or so short and told them that there was an actual tool that was able to stretch the copper in the wire to reach my location. to my suprise i was able to convince an installer from a small shop that these existed. i told them that Lowes carried it.. 
Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: January 07, 2005 at 11:02 PM
Kar Tune Man, whats this work you speak of, is it a new type of card game or a reality TV show or what. Enlighten me. Foltzy, if you called me and asked about a wire strecher and carried on about it I would finally just agree with you just to get you off the phone so I could get back to using my 6X9 hole saw :) Everyone needs 6X9's in their doors, right?
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double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer
Posted By: jazzcustom131
Date Posted: January 08, 2005 at 11:17 PM
One of the other installers decided to come behind me and remove a section of amp wire in a place that I couldn't see it. I spent an hour listening to him laugh, and me b!t(h. Once I ralized what he had done, I decided that it would be great to unplug all the wiring in his new toyota(seeing as how the engine is 80% wires). Took him a while to understand why his truck didn't crank, course I go to work every day in fear of reataliation. ------------- Greed is for amateurs.
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Posted By: Charles_R_H
Date Posted: January 08, 2005 at 11:44 PM
I like to tie the wipers into the power sun roof
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Posted By: BoominRolla
Date Posted: January 09, 2005 at 7:31 AM
Of course we work, between 3 installers we can usually do 12 starters a day and when your selling/ installing astroflex that'll put about $3,000 into the bosses pocket everyday, he keeps very happy... Thankfully I have a nice boss and not a slave driver...
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Posted By: Mwsounds
Date Posted: January 09, 2005 at 9:13 AM
When I worked at C. City, one of my co-workers wired a CIVIC SI so that he could go and steal it later. The Customer was some punk kid that call his mom because my co-worker squealed the tires because he was not used to a stick. He got writen up when punk kid's mom call the manager complaining. I don't think he actually went and stole it, but I thought it ws funny!
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Thanks,
Mike Ward
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Posted By: stang351w
Date Posted: January 09, 2005 at 10:07 AM
makes me glad i work at a single installer shop reading all these stories...how ever i did have a good laugh when this 19-20 year old punk kid came in the second time (after he priced the system, around $2G's) and he had his parents with him and he almost threw a temper-tantrum right in the middle of the store just because his parents wouldn't give him the money to buy the system, i've seen 6 year olds take it better when they get told no then he did...
Posted By: Mwsounds
Date Posted: January 09, 2005 at 1:36 PM
I like when the wife tells the husband he can't buy the system he wants! That is always a sure sign of who 1. controls the check book, 2. make the money, or 3. wears the pants in the house!
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Thanks,
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