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I'm just curious why the owner would drop off a car like that for 3 days for work that can be done in an hour.

Ummm no. Your only speaking for yourself. Bragging on the internet about what you did to a customers car is pure stupidity. People like you should never get behind a wheel of a car unless it is an Escort. Someone is trusting their investment/toy to you, don't fornicate it up by bragging on the net even if it was just to screw around in the parking lot. You might see it as harmless but the owner definetly does not. I have worked on very expensive cars, Porsche, Audi and some really other expensive cars. Not once did I ever drive any of those cars irresponsibly regaurdless of how much horsepower was under the hood. Their is a difference between a mechanic and a technician, which one are you?

I say good on you man.  I would have done the same  thing.  And so would everyone else here unless they were too afraid.  There I said it.  Big whoop, wanna fight about it?

Exactly everyone here would have done the same i dont care if you call yourself a Technician or a Mechanic. Because if your a Technician you were once a Mechanic.

Yeah but bragging on the net isnt the smartest idea.

James

That might be the most important thing.  Does anyone remember the thread on some Mustang board where a Tech makes a post stating that he took a customer's Cobra up to 120mph on backroads, burned the tires, and revved the shiznit out of it?  People went nuts and it was everywhere, flooded the board, and finally the owners of the car were contacted, got on the board, and then showed it to the dealer and had the guy fired.  I can't find it, but it was in an archive of the best/stupidest/greatest threads ever. 

It was an extremely entertaining thread.  People are touchy when it comes to this kind of thing, so I dont want to get on either side of this.  But I worked at an extremely high end shop, and my boss took me on some serious thrash runs in customer's cars - all with the customer's blessing of course, and all with engines (and usually transmissions) that we built and had already flogged on the dyno.  But I've never personally taken a customer's car out, and think it would be immoral since the customer left the car in my boss's trust, and in his care, not mine. 

There, I think I managed to get on both sides a little bit.

drove somebody elses car. big deal. its not yours, you didnt earn it, and will probably never own one. ive driven vipers, cobras vettes, porshes, mercedes etc...who givs a rats ass.
 
abusing somebody elses shiznit is weak and is just like steeling.

Vincent: What's more chickenshiznit than ****ing with a man's automobile? I mean, don't **** with another man's vehicle.
Lance: You don't do it.
Vincent: It's just against the rules.

So this rich guy comes in and leaves his very expensive car there for 3 days to get 4 tires and an alignment. Well since the manager left...