Tools You Lost or Found at PNP or other at other Junk Yards

[charmalu]

If you have been going to the Junk Yards long enough and often enough, Iam sure we all have lost a tool that we left behind in a car. maybe rolled under a seat, carpet or other debris thrown in a car. maybe left it in the engine Bay and just over looked it. sometimes in plain sight, give it a quick look over, and go down the line looking at another car.

Sometimes we are lucky and find a tool someone else has left for us to stumble onto. or maybe you were lucky to find a complete tool kit in a Mercedes or maybe the blowmolded case under the trunk lid in a BMW.

Usually I find the MB cloth bag empty, (Found 3) or the blow molded case hanging down and empty.

I have found here and there a MB wrench, or the double ended screwdriver that is a Slot/Phillips. found a 10 cresent wrench one time but that is about it. Iam always finding cheap or abused broken sockets, extentions, ratchets, or screwdriver.

Last summer I was dropping the rearend on a W123, and the shocks have to come out in the process. I was using a 17mm gear wrench on the upper 17mm nuts, and guess I must have left in the back seat of that old W123.

Last week Iam pulling a couple rotors and 2 doors off another W123, take a quick check for tools left, and off I go. next day Iam in San Jose at another PNP and decide to pull an engine. look for my trusty craftsman ratchet, and it isn`t in there along with a 3" extention and maybe a 13mm socket.

This is that nice full polished chrome 11 + inch, tear drop head. item# 44833. think they are about $30. I have 4 other ratchets in the tool box so I was ok, but damn that pissed me off. Luckly I had another new one at home I picked up at a swap meet last summer for $22. can`t have too many back up tools.

This thread things you found at PNP, got me thinking about the tools I lost or found.

Best PNP find?

Charlie