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Sagebrush posted:My worst dealership experience was at a Honda shop, of all places, and I was fourteen. It was just after the first Insight had come out and I thought it was the coolest car in the world (still gonna own one someday!). The local dealership had one stuck out in front, and it just sat...and sat...and sat. No one was interested in it and they clearly weren't making any effort to sell it. Eventually, after like three months of it not moving, my dad and I decided to go check it out. I had a Honda salesman tell me "I don't think so" when I asked if I could see under the hood of an s2000 on the showroom floor (this would have been around 2000/2001). The condescending attitude of the prick, like he was guarding the velvet rope of some exclusive supercar - it was just an S2000 ffs! I never set foot in that dealership again because of that.
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 "Got a thump noise coming out of the back, it shakes a bit, too." 
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Dec 11, 2015 07:15
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Best part about this, and I'm 100% assuming based on california plates, but that's not even a motorcycle plate.
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Slavvy posted:I've always wanted a first gen one too. Coolest econobox ever. I had one for a couple of years, but it was a CVT. Managed to average 60mpg on my brutal 150 mile daily commute, which was awesome when gas was nearly $5/gallon. It was a fun little car, albeit very loud and bouncy around town. The best part was showing people the "trunk," which was a little cooler shaped cubby under the flat floor in the back. Big enough for a 12 pack and nothing else. Also, awesome gauges. Ended up selling it for more than I paid at the height of the 2007ish gas price boom.
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Dec 11, 2015 07:40
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SaNChEzZ posted:california plates Certainly you meant Florida, but I think your point stands.
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El Jebus posted:Certainly you meant Florida, but I think your point stands. No, they're saying they've only ever seen california motorcycle plates and is figuring motorcycle plates in other states are similar to california ones.
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Dec 11, 2015 07:55
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El Jebus posted:Certainly you meant Florida, but I think your point stands. theyre saying thats their point of reference. and for the record yeah FL has small bike plates too.  I bet his is mounted near horizontal under the fender (fairing? idk bike terms, over the rear tire). e: how ironic, that i should have a tablebreaking image of a "small" plate
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Does any state *not* have small motorcycle plates? No way could I fit a 12"x6" plate anywhere on my motorcycle without it sticking out way past the cowlings. The only flat surfaces that large are the radiator and maybe the center of the seat?
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Dec 11, 2015 08:19
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Sagebrush posted:No way could I fit a 12"x6" plate anywhere on my motorcycle You're supposed to tuck it into your waistband duh 
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Sagebrush posted:My worst dealership experience Back in the 90's my family got a new Dodge Grand Caravan that was the first generation to have dual sliding doors. One wasn't closing properly every time due to some issue. Took it into the dealer and got a loaner while they looked at it. Turns out we had the loaner for three weeks because they had to order us a whole new van due to them removing the drivers side sliding door completely from the van and not being able to mount it back on the van again. I still to this day don't know how they managed that, best guess is they borked the rail system somehow to where they would have to remove most of the side to replace it.
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xzzy posted:No, they're saying they've only ever seen california motorcycle plates and is figuring motorcycle plates in other states are similar to california ones. poo poo, good point. I misread that. Sorry Sanchez!
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14 INCH MACINTOSH COLOUR DISPLAY is in a different thread.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:40
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Seat Safety Switch posted:14 INCH MACINTOSH COLOUR DISPLAY is in a different thread. I was going to ask what kind of connector that is.
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CharlesM posted:I was going to ask what kind of connector that is. Yeah hard to tell from the pic. Either a Mac DB-15, or a Sun 13W3.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:50
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The last time I went to a car dealership to look at new cars I couldn't even get a salesman to give me the time of day, with nobody else on the lot. Just six or seven sales people all sitting at their desks, probably looking at Facebook.
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Looking at that on my phone I thought it was a green Teletubby, then I blew it up and I'm even more confused.
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Dec 12, 2015 01:43
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The same guy that puts the stickers on his laptop upside down.
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We get this poo poo a lot in the tattoo industry when people want a word or simple image on their wrist, but want it upside down because "it's for me to see it, not other people". Cos you know when you're driving and need to keep your attention on the road ahead what you really want to be doing is 'miring your sweet frog vinyl hood sticker instead.
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Dec 12, 2015 04:58
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If this was a Trinitron I could see this working.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:If this was a Trinitron I could see this working. it is, and it is.
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PCOS Bill posted:The last time I went to a car dealership to look at new cars I couldn't even get a salesman to give me the time of day, with nobody else on the lot. Just six or seven sales people all sitting at their desks, probably looking at Facebook. Based on your posting here that seems reasonable.
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Dec 12, 2015 05:27
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Went to a Ford dealership to buy my wife's Fiesta a few years ago. The salesman looked like the bald guy from Pawn Stars and had a post-it note on his monitor with INFOWARS.COM written on it.
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Sudo Echo posted:it is, and it is. I don't think they made a 13" or 14" Trinitron that wasn't an AV. I bet that's just a normal tube. edit: I am wrong. It is a Trinitron. Carry on! Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Dec 12, 2015 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I don't think they made a 13" or 14" Trinitron that wasn't an AV. I bet that's just a normal tube. Everything from the beige Mac era is built like a brick shithouse too.
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8ender posted:Everything from the beige Mac era is built like a brick shithouse too. Except for the analogue boards on the Colour Classic and anything with a Quantum Fireball, but yeah.
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Dec 12, 2015 06:53
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The local Micro Center still has logos from Quantum (and Connor) in their front window. US Robotics too. 
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Dec 12, 2015 07:47
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some texas redneck posted:Connor Oh wow, I haven't thought of that name in years.
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I once went to a Nissan/Renault dealership, the saleswoman was friendly and willing to help She was also incredibly pretty and in an evening dress of all things and made me feel incredibly inadequate in my faded jeans, baggy hoody and real messed up hair from the galeforce winds outside.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:I once went to a Nissan/Renault dealership, the saleswoman was friendly and willing to help Needless to say, you bought 3?
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Linedance posted:Needless to say, you bought 3? No, I ducked out in shame to the the connected Infiniti showroom where I was made to feel even more inadequate by the three salesmen there with impeccable suits and dashing good looks, one of them even had that real silver fox thing. I spent about a minute looking at a Q60 and then disappeared in a wink. I vowed never to go back there.
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A friend of a friend owns a couple of farms and the family is quite wealthy. When he needs a new landy he makes a point of turning up to the Land Rover dealership looking like Wurzel Gummidge, sitting in all the vehicles and acting like a thicko country bumpkin before paying for a brand new high spec defender in cash.
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ReelBigLizard posted:A friend of a friend owns a couple of farms and the family is quite wealthy. When he needs a new landy he makes a point of turning up to the Land Rover dealership looking like Wurzel Gummidge, sitting in all the vehicles and acting like a thicko country bumpkin before paying for a brand new high spec defender in cash. Good salesmen never judge a customer by how he looks. When I worked at a local Ford dealership we had a couple good ol' farm boys come in and buy high end F150s for cash, while a guy in a 3 piece suit couldn't get financing for an $8000 used Mazda.
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Oh certainly, I was in sales for over 3 years. I made a point of helping out everyone equally. Suffice to say the LR dealership is also the Bentley / Aston / BMW dealer and the staff are way up their own arses. He begrudges going there but we live on an island so the alternative is taking a flight or boat and picking one up in the UK and handling all the local re-registration etc.
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SaNChEzZ posted:Best part about this, and I'm 100% assuming based on california plates, but that's not even a motorcycle plate. That's a dealer plate he's got covering his tramp stamp. Not sure they make those motorcycle sized.
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glyph posted:That's a dealer plate he's got covering his tramp stamp. Not sure they make those motorcycle sized. 
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ReelBigLizard posted:A friend of a friend owns a couple of farms and the family is quite wealthy. When he needs a new landy he makes a point of turning up to the Land Rover dealership looking like Wurzel Gummidge, sitting in all the vehicles and acting like a thicko country bumpkin before paying for a brand new high spec defender in cash. I did an internship at a JLR dealer and the richest customers were always the scruffiest looking. Teenagers in hoodies and flat brimmed hats, old men who looked like they never learned to dress themselves and women who tried to dress more teenage than their adult daughters they dragged in with them when buying an F-Type.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Didn't think to grab my phone until it was too late, but it's not hard to replicate. Saw a car in a parking lot with this ubiquitous local dealership sticker: Aren't they are like the original buy here / pay here dealership in phoneix? driguy posted:Earnhardt may suck, but camelback hyundai/kia pissed me off so bad I will never do business with them. What part of "Don't loving call me anymore" did these guys not understand? I've never heard a single good thing about any camelback dealership. I bought my STi from their subaru/mazda dealership, and when I had to take it in for a fender-bender a year later the body shop discovered that the rear end had been repaired previously from a almost identical wreck on the other side. Yes, a dealership sold me a new car that had backed into cross traffic (probably in their lot) and been repaired / never disclosed to me. And I always wondered why I could never get the alignment right on the thing.
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