Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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I tried so hard to get people to make the noise for me. They usually thought I was joking, which I was. But I also would have them drive on a road test and tell me exactly what special noise the car was making.
I was a tech at Maserati, Alfa Romeo and BMW for quite a few years. It would amaze me how many vehicles would come in for a noise complaint where when I road tested it I would hear three other minor noises but not one like the concern. I always loved pulling cars with an ashtray full of change. That meant I would never be getting a noise complaint out of that customer. I had a Ghibli lease that was almost bought back for a rattle one time that we could never duplicate. We found the idiot owner was very tall and had the seats in such an awkward position he had to crank the rear view mirror so far to see out of it the mirror housing would rattle on it. We never duplicated it because the seating position was changed just to get it to the shop. Loved the GTS Quattroporte. Tons of power for a 5500lb car.

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I was a tech at Maserati, Alfa Romeo and BMW for quite a few years. It would amaze me how many vehicles would come in for a noise complaint where when I road tested it I would hear three other minor noises but not one like the concern. I always loved pulling cars with an ashtray full of change. That meant I would never be getting a noise complaint out of that customer. I had a Ghibli lease that was almost bought back for a rattle one time that we could never duplicate. We found the idiot owner was very tall and had the seats in such an awkward position he had to crank the rear view mirror so far to see out of it the mirror housing would rattle on it. We never duplicated it because the seating position was changed just to get it to the shop. Loved the GTS Quattroporte. Tons of power for a 5500lb car.

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I hated people who would nitpick about really faint noises. Thankfully, I didn’t have many of those. The worst was a ‘00 E430 4matic(awesome car) that had a very faint noise from the hat shelf. He had his salesman ride with him and turned the radio off, climate control off, rolled all windows up, and made his daughters be as quiet as possible. Even with all this nonsense the salesman could barely hear the noise. I’m still not sure exactly what I did to fix it but he didn’t complain about it again
 
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