mechanic leaves crowbar on my friends wheel,then lowers lift

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Mechanic accidentally leaves a crowbar attached to the wheel of my friend's car, as he lowered the lift, the bar caught something and pushed the car all the way to the left.

He brought his car in for an alignment

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wow! any damage to the car?
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LOL @ the ricer GTO badge
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flohtingPoint wrote:LOL @ the ricer GTO badge
LOL @ the "drive safely" sign.

Sucks for your friend man. What's he going to get?
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flohtingPoint wrote:LOL @ the ricer GTO badge

I could have swore that there was a model of 3000gt that came with those.....
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snwbrdr435 wrote:
flohtingPoint wrote:LOL @ the ricer GTO badge

I could have swore that there was a model of 3000gt that came with those.....
It's what the 3000GT is called abroad. It's like tossing a silly Silvia badge on your 240.
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Lol, that tech has got to hate themselves after that.
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Wow. Getting that down is going to be fun. I imagine some damage occurred that won't be cheap...
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The alignment looks way off now...
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^ :rotfl
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Drifting on the lift ?
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Drive safely
LIFT COURAGEOUSLY
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C-Kwik wrote:The alignment looks way off now...
I feel guilty for laughing, but that's too funny. :rotflmao
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dasoupdude wrote:

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1) why was there a freakin crowbar there in the 1st place
2) Cant picture what exactly happened
3) how did a crowbar move it that much
4) get money for damages and demand free aligments for life
5) :rotfl
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Yeah i wasnt there but thats what he told me on the phone, he sent the pictures to his fb and i took it from there. i have no idea what a crowbar was doing there either. (unless he said cross wrench)


the drive safely picture had me lawling all day
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alms24sebring wrote:1) why was there a freakin crowbar there in the 1st place
to tweak the wheel into alignment somehow I'm guessing...
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mhmm. sometimes, especially on older stuff, they can be stubborn to move.
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flohtingPoint wrote:LOL @ the ricer GTO badge

rice?

wat
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thats intense... my guess is what happened is the crow bar picked the car up, and then as it moved it slid sideways..

How would you not notice as the lift goes down that something is wrong?
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flohtingPoint wrote:LOL @ the ricer GTO badge
Ricer?
If I bought one, it would have the GTO badge on it, because I wouldn't have much choice.
Click here.....

Same goes for a Silvia too.
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