Taco Bell Manager Gets a Big Surprise at the Drive-Thru After Leaving His Car With Mechanics Just Hours Earlier

For Randy Jones, it was shaping up like any other work day at Taco Bell in Moreno Valley, California.

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But the 24-year-old shift manager was without his Nissan 350Z, which he works a second job to pay for and had dropped off at a Riverside dealership about four hours earlier for a diagnostic test and oil change.

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Then a fellow employee called out to Jones, telling him his car was in the drive-thru lane.

"It can't be my car," Jones told KTLA-TV of his initial reaction, figuring it had to be a car that looked like his.

Randy Jones (Image source: KABC-TV)

But Jones took a closer gander and saw a couple of mechanics sitting in the 350Z wearing logos for the dealership doing the work, and then he knew.

"I was just livid in my mind, you know, having something like that happen to you," he told KABC-TV.

When Jones confronted the mechanics, he said that they "didn't know what to say. They were shocked. They got caught."

He called Raceway Nissan, which offered Jones 20 percent off services and no charge for the diagnostic test, but that didn't satisfy him. In the end, Jones got the dealership to pay for $3,000 in parts and labor — his 350Z was in a wreck last year, according to KTLA.

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KABC said Raceway Nissan towed the car to another dealership, where the work was completed for free.

But Jones said he's still not happy, especially because he can't be sure what the mechanics did to his car, KTLA added.

"They broke a contract," Jones told KABC.

The dealership told KABC the two mechanics were fired and that they violated policy which dictates a test-drive route of 4.8 miles — these guys took the 350Z for a nearly 7-mile ride.

It isn't clear when the incident occurred, but the KTLA report aired Tuesday night.

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