I try to own up to any bugger ups as otherwise it comes back to bite me. It's people that say that it was someone else or swear it wasn't them that annoy me as well. I have talked to a bloke who said his 'stupid wife' was messing around with his mower and now it won't go. Not very convincing. He had connected the kill wire to the throttle control for permanent no spark.
Or when I look up an old car service receipt and see a mechanic in 2003 wrote that he installed a Camry thermostat - which is odd considering the car was a Camira (Pontiac J2000/ chevy cavalier). The guy got a camry (see photo) thermostat and made it fit with a sledge hammer, covered it in silicone, squashed in the oversize camry gasket and chucked it back on.
A few years later, and my initial 1 hour max thermostat change turns into a 8 hour operation as i try to remove the bolt he almost sheared off, remove the thermostat from the housing, and then get it sealing again because its all warped.
