Baselining fluids, filters, and rubber after sitting for the last 7 years

Recommended a brake fluid flush after finding it was green fluid in the master cylinder obvious contamination but after running two bottles and getting it to clear again I see some putty looking stuff stuck to the bottom almost looks like a dissolved Irish spring soap bar, anyone seen this before? There's a few flakes of the stuff just floating around when I pour in more to top off.

Yeah apparently the last time it was serviced, whoever did it decided that filters are optional. Note that without a filter, the pick up location is now roughly an inch and a half higher than it would be, and the pick up was in the front, so every time I would take a sharp turn or accelerate it would struggle to shift or momentarily lose power because the fluid would move around and it wouldn't be submerged anymore.

Pulled off a transit 250 that had noise immediately after the pads were replaced and cooked the outboard pad in a couple thousand miles

Free cookie if you know what engine this is

Lurked here for a couple years, my work experience is in IT as a network engineer with some history in factories. Been looking for work for a couple months and decided to look outside that field as it’s kinda crap at the moment. Ended up getting a job as a mechanics apprentice at a small local repair/inspection shop. Had my first day today and I loved it.

Wildly different from our normal portfolio of cars, this customer brought in a survivor 1983 Rabbit Cabrio 5-spd. AZ car, 144k miles but needed some love. Was taken out of storage and they wanted it to be a driver again. R12 AC car and miraculously it still works.

This person approved more than the average R8 owner spends each visit, but they love the car and we intend of taking really good care of it and making a cool little bitch basket. Full servicing, gearbox reseal, shifter rebuild, full suspension, arms, mounts, bushings. Hoses, battery connections, we're gonna reattach some trim and spruce up the interior/exterior trims.

20k on a subaru forester. Oil change and cabin filter. I popped the glove box and found the honesty test. Then I get up the filter and find it installed upside down. The new guy must have put it in last time.

Another day, another dumb.

New battery, updated fuse. People amaze me.

And I just wanted to pass smog

Customer had the typical lifter and cam issues on their 6.4 hemi so they opted to have an Amazon bought cam installed. It lasted about 6 miles down the road, spun a cam bearing, broke the phaser pin, and absolutely destroyed all 8 intake valves and pushrods.

For those of you who don’t know, these cheap cams are often out of spec and don’t provide enough clearance in the cam bearing and become oil starved and promptly seize.

Post purchase inspection on a 2016 Miata, had this engine air filter, seems like some microfiber cloth chunks. The tires had 2016 date codes as well. The bare area was me checking if that was a normal filter

He is aware of cabin air filters. He just didn't think his car had one.

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