Mechanic Fails Test Drive, Flips Car

Wow. If you ever thought your day was going badly, you should listen to this guy's story. A woman dropped her 2008 Porsche off at her neighborhood Shell station for an inspection. She expected to pick her car up the next day with a new sticker in the window, but unfortunately woke up to a call from local authorities telling her her car had just been found upside down in a mangrove swamp. Local news initially reported the car had been stolen, but it soon surfaced that the man who flipped the car into the drink was the owner of the Shell station. He had taken the car home for a "test drive" when the accident happened. However according to authorities the test was being performed at a whopping 164 mph. I'm not telling you this as a warning, it's perfectly acceptable for a mechanic to drive a customer's car home to look for a problem or road test a repair. After all, that's what you do in your car, right, drive home? But 164 mph was probably excessive.

Read more and see video of the crashed Porsche here at NBC 2.

Mechanic Fails Test Drive, Flips Car originally appeared on About.com Auto Repair on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 01:16:45.

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