Found this in my air intake

[anonymous-user]

I've got the car in pieces changing the cambelt etc.., and I happened to pick up the inlet trunking (1995 1.8 mk1) and it rattled, looking inside the plastic inlet pipe (between the airbox and the throttle body) I found the blackened chrome pipe with the rubber pipe still attached.

Its been in bits for a couple of weeks so I thought perhaps I'd just dropped the one off the cam cover in there, but I've still got that in the parts bucket, so somehow someone has left that pipe inside the inlet pipe and it's been in there for at least a year. Good job it was a tight fit and hadn't slid down 2 inches and jammed the throttle fully open...

No idea how they managed to get the car back together without that pipe either, they must have noticed it was missing and bought a new one....very odd.

On the plus side, it must be worth at least 50bhp extra without that blocking the intake

[dblack1]

Well, I lost a bolt when I was replacing my cam belt (I replaced it) and I thought I had dropped it into the coolant catch beneath, but it was actually hidden somewhere in the cam cover, later to be exposed and it shot around putting a nice grove in my cam belt and cracking my intake sprocket...

[Pit Pony]

I found a pair of mole grips attached to my father in laws exhaust, after a trip to the main dealers for a full service and an exhaust.

[With these feet]

I found a pair of safety goggles under a centre console a few years ago and under the dash on the heater box of a new Mazda a panty liner held on with masking tape..

[blueg33]

Volvo dealer left a 2ft prybar under the bonnet of my car, and had the gall to phone up and asl me to return the prybar, and if I could make a special trip (circa 90 miles round trip) and get it to them the next day then that would be great!

[Revisitph]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199106/Gi...

[Emley]

My sister used to work for a police road traffic section.

She got a call from a Volvo dealer servicing one of the cars to say they had found a gun tucked down the side of a rear seat squab...

[Revisitph]

Emley said:

My sister used to work for a police road traffic section.

She got a call from a Volvo dealer servicing one of the cars to say they had found a gun tucked down the side of a rear seat squab...

Wouldn't have thought of a Volvo as the typical choice of car for da gangsta or the bank robber - but perhaps that's why they were using one.

[timbo999]

Revisitph said:

Wouldn't have thought of a Volvo as the typical choice of car for da gangsta or the bank robber - but perhaps that's why they were using one.

Presume it was a Police car... i.e. the 'robber' (how quaint!) was hiding said gun from the Police whilst being detained...