Funny story time. This happened at the second Merc dealer I worked at. Customer brought in an ‘03 SL500 with a complaint that the convertible top didn’t work properly. This car has a folding hardtop that only had a few problems when they were new/under warranty. One of those was a cable operated trim piece that would loosen internally which would cause the limit switch to open and stop the top operation. This particular one was stuck open at a weird angle that wasn’t how they normally failed. The guy working on it started poking around a bit and found that the entire frame was bent. And it was bent backwards sort of like it was pulled “open”. Hmmmm…
The rest of the story. Customer went out of town and his teenaged son decided to take the SL for a cruise and wanted to put the top down. When it didn’t open, this fucking dipshit had his friend work the switch while he grabbed the front edge of the trunk, put his feet on the bumper and leveraged the trunk lid up. The only problem is that even with this retard “helping” the top system operate, it hadn’t unlocked properly and he was bending the main support frame of the top assembly.
View attachment 8414598 I can’t remember if he had to eat the entire repair or if we helped cover some of it. Whatever it was, I hope his fucking stupid ass kid was sent to a labor camp to pay the bill off
