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BraveUlysses posted:Geico is poo poo, if for no other reason than the fact that their stupid ads are inescapable on a daily basis. Even if you don't listen to radio or watch TV or somehow avoid the billboards or printed ads, they are the only company advertising via loving airplane banners Haha, I went to the beach in Florida for the weekend of the 4th and there were exactly two planes I saw flying banners: one for a crab shack up the road, and one for loving Geico.
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xzzy posted:I don't think any insurance company pays the replacement cost of any car, unless you set up special terms beforehand (and pay through the nose). I felt State Farm treated me well on my only claim, they paid me full book value plus some consideration for custom wheels, stereo, and ECU upgrade on my car. I definitely could have replaced it with what they gave me.
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I think it depends on your agent. My folks had State Farm for years and were happy with how they were treated with numerous claims. Their agent retired and they had a claim with the new agent who just dragged everything out, didn't keep them in the loop, and just had them take the lead. Then their rates started going up quite a bit and they switched to a different company.
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Safe Auto, the ol state minimum insurance, actually gets a little of my respect. Their lawyers went above and beyond helping my wife with a wreck she had a couple years ago. She hasn't even been a customer for two or three years and they still did their job fully. I mean, current customer or not, maybe they're legally obligated to, but I get the feeling that most others would have done the bare minimum and not been helpful at all.
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Jul 15, 2015 19:12
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Geico dropped me completely via mail notice after I called one day to inquire if my winch would be covered in case of theft. Because I occasionally take my vehicle off-road, I guess. gently caress your insurance, anything I bend or break I'll fix myself for a fraction of the deductible. I just want coverage from rear end in a top hat drivers and thieves.
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I totalled my truck (totally my fault), and when Geico learned I worked for a newspaper, they automatically tried to drop me because there might have been a chance I could deliver a single newspaper in it. gently caress no, I left that to my delivery guy, and no, I didn't inquire too closely about the state of his insurance. Because newspaper delivery, like pizza delivery, is a money-losing proposition without insurance fraud. I'm on State Farm at the moment, but after they savaged my rear end in a top hat the last time I made my 6-mo. payment, I'm looking for something else. Someone who won't savage my rear end in a top hat when they learn I have an at-fault on my record.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Absolutely on the engine noise. When you're driving one it feels like you've stuck your head next to a front end loader's engine bay. It is important that everyone understands this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePvi8w22ZqI I mean, the engine is a good engine. But it's pretty loud.
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Philip J Fry posted:I want coverage from parts & personal item thieves. Good luck finding anyone who covers this.
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No pics of the initial failure, but I can scrounge you one later of the fix; there's a coolant line that runs right across the top of your workspace when you're replacing the coil pack on this VW 2.8 V6, right. The thread is apparently familiar with them having the tensile strength of a frito. I nudged it while replacing said coil pack, and it crumbled. gently caress. I had no hopes whatsoever that it was even a numbered part that could be ordered, and gently caress if I was going to deal with any other portions of the system this evening. I hacked the stubs at either end of the break into sorta hose barbs, and replaced the run with a piece of goddamn hose like the entire rest of the universe uses. The snazzy engine covers don't fit anymore, but the poor thing runs. 
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State Farm never issued my homeowners policy like my agent told me they did, didn't tell me about it for three months, then doubled the cost of my car insurance because I suddenly didn't have the multiple lines discount. gently caress State Farm.
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I am a good mechanic  
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Jul 21, 2015 13:09
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Time for a new caliper on that...
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Warthog posted:I am a good mechanic I hate myself for being the first to scream IT NEEDS CALIPERS! on customer cars. And then totally cutting the gently caress out of my own rotors and pad slapping on my own brake jobs.
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Jul 21, 2015 14:24
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Hmpf, thought I'd try once more with pads, slide pins and anti-rattle clips first... 
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https://www.reddit.com/r/catastrophicfailure Just found this.
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Farking Bastage posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/catastrophicfailure 90% of it is fatalities / operator error. We still do it better.
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motherfuckers putting the goddamn filter on without lubing the gasket bane of my existence at sears
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Jul 22, 2015 21:32
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holy loving poo poo, how did you manage to mangle that so badly without actually making any progress?
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Jul 22, 2015 21:41
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Had this happen once: Take a syringe or turkey baster, fill it with oil, inject it between the seal as best you can.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:holy loving poo poo, how did you manage to mangle that so badly without actually making any progress? I don't know, that's how it came to us on the flat bed
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Jul 22, 2015 21:56
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People forget that the oil filter should only be finger tight and use a filter wrench to tighten it. 
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So topical I LITTERALLY ten min ago had to use an electric impact to get a customers canister filter off.
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I swear the most senior bottomside tech we had at the quicklube I worked at had hydraulic presses for hands. You know the big rear end filters on ford 7.3s and poo poo, the ones that swallow an entire quart of oil when you prefill them? I watched the sheetmetal ripple on one of those when he tightened it barehanded once. Didn't matter if the gasket got oiled or not, if he put that fucker on there, he was the only one who was gonna get it back off. I'm no slouch grip wise and I couldn't even come close to getting some of his filters off.
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Jul 22, 2015 22:25
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I always tightened the loving poo poo out of those anyway.
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I did the first oil change on my mom's new forester, which has a top mounted filter. Guy at the factory must have been angry because I had a hard time getting that thing off. My 3-jaw filter wrench was slipping and mangled it all up.
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My GTI has a paper filter element that sits inside of a reusable plastic canister. The nice thing about it is the 36mm (or is it 32mm?) hex molded into the bottom for a wrench to go on, making removal easy. Last time I took it off, though, I couldn't get the drat filter out. It was stuck on the central tube in the canister. When I pulled on it, the tube itself pulled out! After I cut the filter off, I noticed that the tube just snapped into the bottom of the canister with some tabs, but I was scared I destroyed the thing for about ten minutes. I can never get the drat thing back on the car, though. The element has to align with another tube I can't see deep inside the port and I can never get the threads to start when I put it on. The longest part of an oil change is always me adjusting the angle minutely until I get the drat thing going.
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I haven't a clue why filter manufacturers don't do what whoever makes Toyota's OE can filters does. They come pre-greased with a nice silicone lube, and the seal is an o-ring that has the correct amount of compression when the can touches the flange. No guesswork, just go til it's metal on metal and then it's good to go and comes off by hand next time. loving beautiful.
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Tommychu posted:I haven't a clue why filter manufacturers don't do what whoever makes Toyota's OE can filters does. They come pre-greased with a nice silicone lube, and the seal is an o-ring that has the correct amount of compression when the can touches the flange. No guesswork, just go til it's metal on metal and then it's good to go and comes off by hand next time. loving beautiful. Bosch filters come that way.
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Jeep's new thing is a drop-in similar to the VW design above, except without the hosed up aspects. I don't need to jack it up, and I can reach the drain plug from next to it, so I can change my oil without even getting under the loving thing. Edit: Particularly on the '13+ models the housing is prone to cracking if you overtighten it. It also might only be a slight crack that you don't even notice until most of your oil has seeped out of the engine. So there's that. Godholio fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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Uthor posted:My GTI has a paper filter element that sits inside of a reusable plastic canister. The nice thing about it is the 36mm (or is it 32mm?) hex molded into the bottom for a wrench to go on, making removal easy. Last time I took it off, though, I couldn't get the drat filter out. It was stuck on the central tube in the canister. When I pulled on it, the tube itself pulled out! After I cut the filter off, I noticed that the tube just snapped into the bottom of the canister with some tabs, but I was scared I destroyed the thing for about ten minutes. Had the exact same experience my first oil change on the Audi. Had a little freak out imagining some $150 oil housing replacement but I also just cut it off.
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BlackMK4 posted:I always tightened the loving poo poo out of those anyway. You'll regret it. When I went to do my filter, the bastard was on there tighter than a thing that's on too tight. I ended up having to remove the filter adapter to get it off. There are probably pictures around here of that screw up of mine.
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Horse Divorce posted:You'll regret it. When I went to do my filter, the bastard was on there tighter than a thing that's on too tight. I ended up having to remove the filter adapter to get it off. There are probably pictures around here of that screw up of mine. I did hundreds of them... had a band wrench that had a 1/2" drive on it. Never failed to get one off.  edit: Make sure you push the band all the way up so its gripping on the stamped steel portion of the filter rather than anywhere in the center/top where it is just sheet metal. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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BlackMK4 posted:I did hundreds of them... had a band wrench that had a 1/2" drive on it. Never failed to get one off. I tried using a band, but space was tight. I guess you're just luckier than I am. But I'll learn one of these days!
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hey you never know, maybe they put on the wrong filter type or something and it couldn't handle the pressure and exploded. Because that thing looks like it exploded. I kind of hope it exploded...
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Xlyfindel posted:hey you never know, maybe they put on the wrong filter type or something and it couldn't handle the pressure and exploded. Because that thing looks like it exploded. I kind of hope it exploded... youre adorable (no but seriously oil pressures are roughly the same in just about all car engines, that was a loving hamhanded attempt to remove it with a screwdriver.)
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Here's a mechanical failure: It's from a 7.3 power stroke, I bought it with 345,000 miles figuring it was good for a while longer. I was driving it at night a couple weeks ago and started hearing a ticking noise, followed by a BANG, and the engine died. I drained all of the coolant out of the oil pan, so I figured it was hosed. I put a used engine in and just got the head off the old one, and that's what I found. Guess I know how the coolant got into the oil pan... I'll try to gather up some pieces of piston if you want to see what a piston looks like after it explodes. I have no idea why it decided to explode, but it bent a valve, push rod and a glowplug, and took out the block.
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That looks a lot like when I blew up my 283. I think it dropped a valve but I had my foot to the floor when it happened and there was hardly any large pieces of piston left, haha.
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