If you could have any (auto) mechanic superpower, what would it be?

[LooneyTech]

I would like the ability to teleport the sorry ass mothfuckle that designed the cluster~fuck~if~a~cation from their nice comfy office down to the shop floor to service their design in the field

... after a year or two in the salt belt,
...and preferably after it's coated in slime and spooge from "allowable seepage"


Id buy them lunch if they could beat book time

 

[AKnate]

Every hour I put on something it reduces the wear/use on it by 2 hours.

So a machine with 10k hours would be brand new off the showroom in 1975 or whatever after running it to 15k hrs.

That or crazy strength with just a finger tip even. Get that 1500ft lb torqued bolt in a stupid spot undone by hand.

 

[subybaja]

That could also pull pesky bolts from tight spots. No more removing things to get at that one.
From small to big, drop trannies, pull motors without cherry picker, etc. No more jackstands or lifts needed.

Yeah, that would be it. 1 hour of your labor is equal to many more from traditional work, you could then trade ten minutes of your skill in exchange for computer diagnostics or whatever else you're missing.

Plus you could always abuse your power. No need for gun, just lift any random pebble and launch it at an enemy face at 3,000 fps.

 

[Chadwick]

do ya'll keep jars or something with random bolts etc? how about the power to find one that fits right away

We have 5 gallon buckets and bolt boxes in shipping containers.. lmao
None of whichare sorted.
I'm at 90% find rate only bc its part of my job to know where everything we have is at.
We have a Lotta shit at work..

Some day I just start opening containers just to refresh my memory and always have new old junk rolling in on a flat bed.

 

[JR4X]

Levitation would be nice. The amount of metal material in the race shop under everything heavy is off putting. I need to disassemble the entire shop to clean it up and my back hurts just thinking about it. I think the welding bench weighs 4000 pounds and is not on wheels

 

[Void_of_Light]

Maybe for any extension cords, air hose, vacuum cord, etc not to get caught on the only thing within 14 miles that is even possible. Every. Fucking. Time.

I believe this task is far beyond the limits of even superhero power.

 

[westracing01]

The ability to know what every squeak, rattle, pop, odd noise, "it sounds like this", is and where it is instantly, from description by someone else or hearing it myself.

I can fix it if I know what/where the fuck it is.

 

[Trick95]

Say "ok, show me" and it fixes itself.

 

[Blugreenformula]

The ability to remove broken bolts with ease. I hate extracting broken bolts.

 

[JayMcJay]

The ability to un-rust stuff.
Bolts, sheet metal, exhaust manifolds……

 

[[486]]

xray vision

 

[dwygrsshpr]

Not getting hurt would be swell

And maybe not a superpower, but having nitrile gloves that last longer than 38 seconds would be nice.

 

[Ksand]

Like xray or thermal vision?

As in, any problem is fixed just by seeing the vehicle

 

[bad zuki]

xray vision

With zoom. I’m getting old.

Batman’s powers would be pretty cool, just pay other people to work on my stuff for me

 

[[486]]

Batman’s powers would be pretty cool, just pay other people to work on my stuff for me

yeah and if you had even more money than batman (and therefore were a more batmanny batman than batman) you probably could get away with not wearing the gay bat costume

 

[BDK]

Fluid leaks, no more fluid leaks.

Or, ability to rebuild a major componet without tearing it down.

TRACTOR, HEAL THYSELF!!!!

 

[bad zuki]

Levitation would be nice. The amount of metal material in the race shop under everything heavy is off putting. I need to disassemble the entire shop to clean it up and my back hurts just thinking about it. I think the welding bench weighs 4000 pounds and is not on wheels

The Monkeys paw has turned you into a forklift.

yeah and if you had even more money than batman (and therefore were a more batmanny batman than batman) you probably could get away with not wearing the gay bat costume

Idk. I thought the trama came with the powers? If not you’d probably end up just like (insert billionaire personality here).

 

[Mikenike]

Say "ok, show me" and it fixes itself.

I would like to remind you that did not turn out great for the guy or car in question. Banging scene though

 

[45acp]

I want the magic Jesus healing powers, lay hands on a GM 6L80 and miraculously make it last over 100k miles. I'd charge $500/per and would be rich before the year ends.

 

[gt1guy]

I'd like the power to make anyone I choose work on my shit. Not unlike having slaves, they just don't know it and don't remember.

 

[east_beast]

After wrestling with a brake booster in my Land Cruiser this morning, maybe magically getting hard to fit in parts in place. Getting that booster behind the master cylinder then past the intake manifold and getting the studs through the holes in the firewall was a real and proper knuckle busting mother fucker.

 

[JR4X]

I'd like the power to make anyone I choose work on my shit. Not unlike having slaves, they just don't know it and don't remember.

Hold on a second! Can it be an engineer and they way WAY remember it?

 

[east_beast]

Hold on a second! Can it be an engineer and they way WAY remember

Seems like everything made after about the mid-80s was designed with just no consideration whatsoever of having to service and repair things after initial assembly.

 

[Pt_Ranger_v8]

Seems like everything made after about the mid-80s was designed with just no consideration whatsoever of having to service and repair things after initial assembly.

I disagree. My 06 civic was surprisingly simple to work on. You generally had to contort your brain to understand it, but for a small car made by people with tiny hands, it was pretty straightforward on repairs.

 

[east_beast]

I disagree. My 06 civic was surprisingly simple to work on. You generally had to contort your brain to understand it, but for a small car made by people with tiny hands, it was pretty straightforward on repairs.

So we have the '06 Civic over here and then a list three miles long over there.

 

[Pt_Ranger_v8]

So we have the '06 Civic over here and then a list three miles long over there.

You're not wrong 😂

 

[Hooligan]

The ability to un-rust stuff.
Bolts, sheet metal, exhaust manifolds……

This, it would work like X-ray vision, but more like laser eyes.

 

[Mikenike]

The ability to un-rust stuff.
Bolts, sheet metal, exhaust manifolds……

This please

 

[Trick95]

I would like to remind you that did not turn out great for the guy or car in question. Banging scene though

 

[dwygrsshpr]

The ability to un-rust stuff.
Bolts, sheet metal, exhaust manifolds……

Ancillary Power:
The ability to sense right before the bolt head torques off with a gentle nudge from a 1/4" drive? Or having PB blaster shoot out of my wrists like Spiderman?