Comments by "The Underground Lair of the Squankum" (@theundergroundlairofthesqu9261) on "Royalty Auto Service" channel.

  1. I was but a shop flunky boy at a Mercedes-Benz dealer in the 80's. Thanks to the DIN chassis radio and the arrival of crack, smash and grab at night was a problem we tried to reduce by moving customers' cars into the bays and the aisle, too, before closing up for the night. I drove one car in (a 190E?) and as I got to the entry door all of the mechanics, standing around for the clocking out of timecards, started yelling and waving. I didn't know what the problem was. The problem was that this car was in the middle of some kind of oil cooler repair and I was driving it and leaving a long trail of oil on the ground. Not good. There was no note/sign on the steering wheel, so I wasn't in trouble, but somebody else was.
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  2. Please be sure to write letters to General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Toyota Motor Corporation, Honda Motor Company, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.🙂 No need to write to Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company, Inc., as they are defunct. You're not the only person with this concern but what I don't understand is why I only heard of it about two years ago. For a few decades, I read several major car magazines cover to cover and don't remember that coming up. Electric motors seem to be on peoples' minds with it, though, because that's always brought up as a contrasting example.
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  3. I installed an Autotech dead pedal on my buddy's A2 Jetta GLI, and my new Craftsman power drill and the usual ol;' drill bit didn't work very well, but eventually punched through, for two mounting holes. Then I discovered that my newfangled power drill was in reverse for some? all? of the job. Erosion? (shrug)
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