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I finally had to tell a customer that their 'check engine light' was actually just a sticky piece of gum

This guy rolls in last Tuesday with a 2010 Honda Civic, says the check engine light has been on for three days. I plug in the scanner, no codes, nothing. I look under the dash and there's a wad of gum stuck to the cluster lens. It was covering the light but reflecting it weird. I peeled it off and the light was actually off the whole time. He paid me $20 for the inspection and left laughing. Has anyone else had a dumb fake-out like this or was it just me?
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jamiesingh
Fake. Gum wouldn't reflect the light that way; you made this up for internet points.
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wesley_grant33
Heard a guy on a podcast find a french fry shorting out his dashboard once.
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