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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 06:03 AM
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Who says the car builders at Gaydon do not have a sense of humor?
When Mark and I were installing my x-pipe, Mark found this:

 
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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 01:18 PM
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Made me laugh when I found this....The underneath of your car is factory clean!
 
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Old Aug 14, 2013 | 07:41 PM
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Hilarious!!
 
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Old Aug 14, 2013 | 07:42 PM
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Yah think that's funny....I found a ball bearing in the boot lid rolling around with words grinded into it stating

"Ballocks, you found me m8"




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Old Aug 14, 2013 | 08:29 PM
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^^^^ That is so crazy! How big does a bearing have to be for all that writing to be on it?
 
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Originally Posted by irish07
Yah think that's funny....I found a ball bearing in the boot lid rolling around with words grinded into it stating

"Ballocks, you found me m8"




....*****, LOL
***** is right, that's not funny.... mean spirited maybe, definitely not funny. At least my smiley face didn't cost me $ for somebody to figure out what/where the noise was coming from!
 
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^^^^ That is so crazy! How big does a bearing have to be for all that writing to be on it?
About 1/2inch wide...tool etching grinder
 
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***** is right, that's not funny.... mean spirited maybe, definitely not funny. At least my smiley face didn't cost me $ for somebody to figure out what/where the noise was coming from!
Hehe..didn't cost nobody but Aston's own pockets...warranty!
 
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Hehe..didn't cost nobody but Aston's own pockets...warranty!
Wonder if they were able to trace it back to the knucklehead who put it there..... Would love to have heard that conversation!
 
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guessing he would be fired, gotta say rightly so, thats a real d bag move, mistakes are one thing but doing something like that is just being a complete tool for no reason
 
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Yeah, I have to agree that that's not cool. Funny in concept, but not so funny to the poor bastard who paid over $100,000 for an intentionally faulty car.
 
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