Those who try to pry apart frozen burger patties with the tip of your (really nice) chefs knife and are surprised when the tip snaps off.

Usually the same people use a screwdriver as a pry bar and complain when it bends or the tip breaks.

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95 E300D gave away
77 300D, 227k, station car
83 300CD 370k, body gone away to the rust gods, engine is in a Yota pickup, going strong
89 190E 2.6- 335k, no more
79 VW FI Bus- 154k summer driver
59 VW Beetle ragtop- 175k
12 VW Jetta- 250k
74 MG Midget-78k

Yep. Pry bars are pry bars for a reason. To break patria apart I just drop them still in the sealed bag to break them free. Or use a sanitized pry bar

Reminds me of another story.
A friend of mine was working a summer job, helping to build houses. He swears that on one day he saw a guy and his helper use a screw driver as a chisel to make a space to install an electrical box. Then immediately use a wood chisel as a screwdriver to pry open a can of paint. They had all the right tools; just no feel for when to use which one.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

This woman

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8274026&rss=rss-wpvi-article-8274026

I don't know where to start

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Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

go to india, bangladesh, pakistan or anywhere and see what their highly qualified mechanics do on a norm.

customer = my little dinky car heated up a little please check to see if anything is out of place (most drivers there dont know anything about cars)

the mechanic would then remove and bin the T-stat valve, rig the radiator fan to run all the time, fill the system with saline well water, get his money and the customer drives off happy that the temp gauge is now glued to "C" all the time. They later come back in about 20,000 miles with an engine that is sludged up or has bad crank rattle. mechanic blames it on the "modern thin oils" lol.

customer pays for cheap machine job, assy in a dusty environment with slipping tools and returns back in another 20,000 miles for another full overhaul job.

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

Sounds like a plan to eliminate unemployment.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

Or this guy:
Wax cylinder

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

As a professional M/B tech one of my pet peeves is finding the 13mm oil drain plug rounded over. I mean come on, if you don't actually have a metric tool set a 1/2 inch is a near perfect equilivent to a 13mm. Considering that either is probably the MOST COMMON BOLT SIZE EVER it must take someone special to round over all six corners of the hex with what I'd assume is a combination of channel locks, vice grips, and a hammer.

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90 300TE 4-M
Turbo 103, T3/T04E 50 trim
T04B cover .60 AR
Stage 3 turbine .63 AR
A2W I/C, 40 LB/HR
MS2E, 60-2 Direct Coil Control
3" Exh, AEM W/B O2
Underdrive Alt. and P/S Pulleys,
Vented Rear Discs, .034 Booster.
3.07 diffs 1st Gear Start

90 300CE 104.980
Milled & ported head, 10.3:1 compression
197° intake cam w/20° advancer
Tuned CIS ECU
4° ignition advance
PCS TCM2000, built 722.6
600W networked suction fan
Sportline sway bars
V8 rear subframe, Quaife ATB 3.06 diff

saw a teenager the other day trying to undo a flat head screw with a Phillips head driver. Had his ipod sound in his ears so no point trying to explain.

Probably they used a 9/16 or 14mm on it because it was too for to walk across the shop & get a 13mm!!!!

This isnt so mechanical but how bout using the edge of your kitchen knife to scrape things off the cutting board as opposed to using the spine of the blade? That's always kinda bugged me. Thanks for letting me get that off mah chest.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

Yes, that one kills me! There are SO many people that just can not grasp that turning the stat all the way will NOT get it to that temperature faster.

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2001 SLK 320 six speed manual
2014 Porsche Cayenne six speed manual

Annoy a Liberal, Read the Constitution

My wife tends to view Thermostats as "on-off" switches--going from one extreme to another.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

1. people who assume in an emergency that since washer fluid is blue and refreshing looking, it will help them put out an engine fire, with the results you can imagine. (have to own that one, though I was sleep deprived)

2. Certain people who consistently slam their auto transmission gear lever as hard as possible upwards when its time to stop, who slam it down as hard as possible when its time to go, and never actually verify what gear the lever is actually in. The same people who are capable of driving extended distances in 2 or 1, and call yelling about how slow the car is as it revs along a 5000 rpm!

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one of mine ~~~ how hard can you slam shut that passenger door

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1989 300ce smoke silver / brazil, in a constant state of flux ~~~