• Question: What runs without ever needing legs?
  Answer: A well-oiled machine.
• Question: I have keys but no locks. I have a switch but no electricity. What am I?
  Answer: A toolset.
• Question: What has teeth but cannot eat?
  Answer: A gear.
• Question: What has many ears but cannot hear a sound?
  Answer: An engine.
• Question: I have hands but cannot clap. What am I?
  Answer: A clock.
• Question: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
  Answer: The future of automotive technology.
• Question: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
  Answer: Light from a mechanic’s flashlight.
• Question: What has a neck but no head?
  Answer: A screwdriver.
• Question: What can you catch but never throw?
  Answer: A wrench.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks?
  Answer: A keyboard of a diagnostic tool.
• Question: What flies without wings?
  Answer: A drone.
• Question: What has a face but cannot smile?
  Answer: A clock dial.
• Question: What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
  Answer: A chimney brush.
• Question: What has a head and a tail but no body?
  Answer: A coin used to make decisions about car repairs.
• Question: What has keys that open no locks?
  Answer: A piano tuner’s toolset.
• Question: What has hands but cannot hold anything?
  Answer: A clock in the mechanic’s workshop.
• Question: What has a spine but no bones?
  Answer: A file.
• Question: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?
  Answer: A motor.
• Question: What is full of holes but can still hold water?
  Answer: A radiator.
• Question: What can you see but never touch?
  Answer: A blueprint of a machine.

• Question: What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
  Answer: An air compressor.
• Question: What gets hotter as it cools?
  Answer: A heat exchanger.
• Question: What has keys but doesn’t open doors?
  Answer: A keyless ignition system.
• Question: What has wheels and flies but is not an aircraft?
  Answer: A drone equipped with wheels.
• Question: What can spin around the world but stays in the same place?
  Answer: A lathe machine.
• Question: What has a head, a tail, but no body?
  Answer: A screwdriver bit.
• Question: What can break without being held?
  Answer: A circuit.
• Question: What has teeth but can’t chew?
  Answer: A gear rack.
• Question: What has hands but can’t hold anything?
  Answer: A clock in a car dashboard.
• Question: What has a tongue but cannot taste?
  Answer: A tire pressure gauge.
• Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
  Answer: A nut on a bolt.
• Question: What has eyes but can’t see?
  Answer: A surveillance camera in a garage.
• Question: What can be heard but not seen and only speaks the language of numbers?
  Answer: A digital multimeter.
• Question: What has a ring but no finger?
  Answer: A piston in an engine.
• Question: What can cut you without a blade?
  Answer: A hydraulic shear.
• Question: What has a face but no expression?
  Answer: A pressure gauge.
• Question: What can be opened but never closed?
  Answer: A valve.
• Question: What has legs but doesn’t walk?
  Answer: A tripod stand for heavy machinery.
• Question: What can be wound but never undone?
  Answer: A spring in a mechanical watch.
• Question: What can hold a car but cannot move an inch?
  Answer: A car lift.

Another Mechanic riddles

• Question: What has threads but cannot sew?
  Answer: A bolt.
• Question: What can turn without moving?
  Answer: A steering wheel.
• Question: What can be filled but never satisfied?
  Answer: A fuel tank.
• Question: What can be seen through but blocks everything?
  Answer: A windshield.
• Question: What has keys but doesn’t unlock anything?
  Answer: A keyboard on a diagnostic tool.
• Question: What can run but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?
  Answer: A pickup truck.
• Question: What can be tight or loose, but never wears clothes?
  Answer: A nut.
• Question: What can be read but not written?
  Answer: A vehicle identification number (VIN).
• Question: What has a head and a tail but no body?
  Answer: A coin used for flipping to make decisions about car repairs.
• Question: What has an eye but cannot see?
  Answer: A camera used for vehicle backup assistance.
• Question: What can be pumped but not inflated?
  Answer: A brake pedal.
• Question: What can be thrown but never caught?
  Answer: A fuse.
• Question: What can hold something together but can’t touch it?
  Answer: An adhesive.
• Question: What can be broken but never falls apart?
  Answer: A circuit.
• Question: What can you drive but never ride?
  Answer: A screwdriver.
• Question: What can be adjusted but never fixed?
  Answer: A mirror in a car.
• Question: What can be twisted but never turned?
  Answer: A wire.
• Question: What can be tested but never failed?
  Answer: A diagnostic tool.
• Question: What can be filled with air but doesn’t float?
  Answer: A tire.
• Question: What can be opened but never closed?
  Answer: A valve.

• Question: What can be turned off but never turned on?
  Answer: A brake.
• Question: What can be filled with liquid but never spills?
  Answer: A radiator.
• Question: What can make a car roar but has no teeth?
  Answer: An exhaust system.
• Question: What can be broken to make it work?
  Answer: A starter motor.
• Question: What can be shifted but never moves?
  Answer: A gear lever.
• Question: What can be greased but never eats?
  Answer: A ball joint.
• Question: What can be tightened but never speaks?
  Answer: A bolt.
• Question: What can be driven but never steered?
  Answer: A nail.
• Question: What can be hammered but never struck?
  Answer: A nail into a tire.
• Question: What can be torqued but never twisted?
  Answer: A lug nut.
• Question: What can be pumped but never deflates?
  Answer: A hydraulic jack.
• Question: What can be adjusted but never changes?
  Answer: A suspension system.
• Question: What can be plugged but never electrified?
  Answer: A spark plug.
• Question: What can be sprayed but never wet?
  Answer: A lubricant.
• Question: What can be rolled but never eaten?
  Answer: A brake drum.
• Question: What can be tightened but never cries?
  Answer: A lug nut.
• Question: What can be drained but never runs out?
  Answer: A fuel tank.
• Question: What can be tested but never studies?
  Answer: A car battery.
• Question: What can be checked but never cashed?
  Answer: A tire pressure.
• Question: What can be aligned but never straightened?
  Answer: A wheel alignment.

Getting over with Mechanic riddles

• Question: What can be revved but never races?
  Answer: An engine in neutral.
• Question: What can be pumped but never tires?
  Answer: A hydraulic jack.
• Question: What can be hammered but never cries?
  Answer: A nail.
• Question: What can be flushed but never blushed?
  Answer: A coolant system.
• Question: What can be welded but never broken?
  Answer: A metal joint.
• Question: What can be rotated but never turned?
  Answer: A tire on a car.
• Question: What can be revved but never roars?
  Answer: An engine in park.
• Question: What can be charged but never convicted?
  Answer: A car battery.
• Question: What can be programmed but never learns?
  Answer: A car’s onboard computer.
• Question: What can be drained but never emptied?
  Answer: An oil pan.
• Question: What can be ignited but never burns?
  Answer: A spark plug.
• Question: What can be tightened but never speaks?
  Answer: A bolt.
• Question: What can be cooled but never sweats?
  Answer: A radiator.
• Question: What can be connected but never calls?
  Answer: An electrical wire.
• Question: What can be spun but never weaves?
  Answer: A flywheel.
• Question: What can be calibrated but never judged?
  Answer: An instrument cluster.
• Question: What can be adjusted but never argues?
  Answer: A car’s seat position.
• Question: What can be drained but never dry?
  Answer: A fuel tank.
• Question: What can be accelerated but never moves?
  Answer: A throttle.
• Question: What can be greased but never eaten?
  Answer: A ball joint.