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I drive a 2007 Mercury Milan with 66000 miles. If I park it on a slope and get out or back into the car, it makes a creaking sound from somewhere. I can't narrow it down at all. Are the brakes / parking brakes involved? There is no creak if I get in / out while parked on a level surface. It drives fine over bumps on the roads with no weird sound.
I drive a 2007 Mercury Milan with 66000 miles. If I park it on a slope and get out or back into the car, it makes a creaking sound from somewhere. I can't narrow it down at all. Are the brakes / parking brakes involved? There is no creak if I get in / out while parked on a level surface. It drives fine over bumps on the roads with no weird sound.
How many hours and dollars are you willing to spend to find out?
Reminds me of an old Brian Bosworth (the football player) story - this is great. He had a summer job while in college at Oklahoma. He worked on an automobile assembly line. Old time senior assemblers taught him some nifty little tricks. Here goes.
Some car owner would bring his car in for repair as he keeps hearing a constant tapping coming from somewhere inside the car. The service people check it out and can't find anything. He takes the car back but the tapping continues. He brings the car back to the service people who check it out even more thoroughly this time - still nothing. The owner takes the car back again and the tapping is driving him nuts. Finally, he insists the service people figure this out. They painstakingly start disassembling the car piece by piece, the panels, chassis, the frame, everything.
Finally, as they get to the deepest innards of the car's frame in a cavity almost impossible to access, they find a little bolt suspended by a string which allows the bolt to bang against the side of the frame. On the bolt is a note which reads "Ha, You finally found me."
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How many hours and dollars are you willing to spend to find out?
Reminds me of an old Brian Bosworth (the football player) story - this is great. He had a summer job while in college at Oklahoma. He worked on an automobile assembly line. Old time senior assemblers taught him some nifty little tricks. Here goes.
Some car owner would bring his car in for repair as he keeps hearing a constant tapping coming from somewhere inside the car. The service people check it out and can't find anything. He takes the car back but the tapping continues. He brings the car back to the service people who check it out even more thoroughly this time - still nothing. The owner takes the car back again and the tapping is driving him nuts. Finally, he insists the service people figure this out. They painstakingly start disassembling the car piece by piece, the panels, chassis, the frame, everything.
Finally, as they get to the deepest innards of the car's frame in a cavity almost impossible to access, they find a little bolt suspended by a string which allows the bolt to bang against the side of the frame. On the bolt is a note which reads "Ha, You finally found me."
How many hours and dollars are you willing to spend to find out?
Reminds me of an old Brian Bosworth (the football player) story - this is great. He had a summer job while in college at Oklahoma. He worked on an automobile assembly line. Old time senior assemblers taught him some nifty little tricks. Here goes.
Some car owner would bring his car in for repair as he keeps hearing a constant tapping coming from somewhere inside the car. The service people check it out and can't find anything. He takes the car back but the tapping continues. He brings the car back to the service people who check it out even more thoroughly this time - still nothing. The owner takes the car back again and the tapping is driving him nuts. Finally, he insists the service people figure this out. They painstakingly start disassembling the car piece by piece, the panels, chassis, the frame, everything.
Finally, as they get to the deepest innards of the car's frame in a cavity almost impossible to access, they find a little bolt suspended by a string which allows the bolt to bang against the side of the frame. On the bolt is a note which reads "Ha, You finally found me."
Brian Bosworth's college job was to sit in his brand new car, drink beer, and watch oil wells pump. Got paid $100 per hour. He was an Oklahoma Sooners football player.
He's also an incredibly stupid person who could never write a book.
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