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Friar Zucchini posted:I'm still wondering, the dude that got his Audi cut up at the quick oil change place, if he said he's working underneath it a lot then why the gently caress did he take it there to begin with? Well if you click the included link... posted:I was looking through Groupon and happened over a $49 deal to get a full synthetic oil change at the Valvoline Instant Oil Change place. [edit] Note, I usually do the oil changes myself but its been a little hectic lately. We are selling the house, things are packed up, yada, yada. So I figured, why not do an added 5K interval change at such a cheap price and i'm driving around anyways near there. I cant buy the parts that cheap and it's Valvoline so whats to lose right? ...and there is where my mistake lies and what turned into a 4 hour ordeal that involved police.
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Friar Zucchini posted:I'm still wondering, the dude that got his Audi cut up at the quick oil change place, if he said he's working underneath it a lot then why the gently caress did he take it there to begin with? He was a cheap bastard who saw a deal and thought it would be a good idea to try and save fifty bucks on the most important maintenance to the most expensive part of the car. e: beaten VVV I think that what happened to him is beyond the pale, but it also seems like every car nut has a story about how the quick-change places hosed something up, so I dunno. Some nonzero chance of catastrophic errors is the hidden cost of using those places. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Dec 18, 2015 |
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Friar Zucchini posted:I'm still wondering, the dude that got his Audi cut up at the quick oil change place, if he said he's working underneath it a lot then why the gently caress did he take it there to begin with? Because sometimes it's not possible (eg few years ago shattered my wrist and changing my own oil that summer was not high on my priority list) and it's not a stretch to assume a store that sells a thing will do said thing correctly. But I guess not jumping right into victim blaming makes me Hitler or something.
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Sagebrush posted:When is "sawing out a piece of the car" an understandable step in changing the oil? Has there ever been a vehicle, built anywhere in the world, at any time in history, where you had to destroy and replace a piece of external cladding as normal engine service procedure? Who said anything about replacing the part? 99% of people never look under their car anyway so won't notice anything is wrong unless the next place points it out.
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I mean you can say the guy got hosed over but groupons are always a huge red flag for quality of service issues and this dude clearly was concerned about his car being taken care of but still took it to a quicky lube place groupon deal in hand.
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jamal posted:Man, I could start a whole thread. "tales of working at subaru performance shops" Please. I've seen some tremendous stories although telling them in public would probably get the people I know in a lot of poo poo.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Please. I've seen some tremendous stories although telling them in public would probably get the people I know in a lot of poo poo. Then why even post?
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Preoptopus posted:New guy ran the wrong filter home on a 2013 Mazda 6 today. came back 2 hours later on a flatbed with no filter and a seized engine. They are and maybe were friends of the owner too. Tomarrow should be fun. Did new guy get fired
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nollij posted:Just remembered.... Hope you called the cops. Your credit card will.
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`Nemesis posted:Did new guy get fired Nah hes on thin ice tho. In all honestly im glad cause then id be stuck doing all the tires and oil changes.
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Every day I see a guy walking up and down the street wearing a batman suit and a signboard promoting a quick lube shop. I guess that's how the Batmobile lost its wheel. Fornax Disaster fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Dec 20, 2015 |
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neckbeard posted:http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/681930-Just-another-reason-not-to-take-your-S4-to-an-instant-oil-change-shop Poor Audi.  At least the shop took responsibility at the end.14S4GWM posted:That might be one of the worst horror stories I have read. I don't know what held you back from beating that guy with a wrench. StevenStarke posted:WOW. Just wow. I would have ended up in jail
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Chris Knight posted:Poor Audi. On the internet, no one ever use hyperbole.
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Wasabi the J posted:On the internet, no one ever use hyperbole. I will literally beat you with a jail for that.
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Did their rear window explode from the weight of the water container?
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Are we doing comically oversized trailers? I saw this guy pulled over in the parking lot next to my work a few months ago. That's a 3/4 ton pickup pulling it, too. The cops had to drive it up onto some portable scales to weigh it and it was obvious that it was so back-heavy that there was negative tongue weight. Best part is that one of our delivery drivers said that he passed this guy on the loving highway. 2nd best is the spray painted on TDG "placards."
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Powershift posted:blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 1. Best thing that could have happened to that Grand Cherokee. 2. What the hell am I even looking at? It looks like the wheels collapsed under the back of it and the front was joined on to the moving truck by ??? 3. Is that container plastic or something? It doesn't look too heavy. The broken hatch window was probably a separate incident.
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Powershift posted:blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah  I have...so many questions.
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Terrible Robot posted:
I belive the answers to your questions are meth, meth, it doesn't turn, north dakota, zip ties, and meth.
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Powershift posted:I belive the answers to your questions are meth, meth, it doesn't turn, north dakota, zip ties, and meth. Yeah that covers just about all of them. e; you forgot inbreeding. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Dec 20, 2015 |
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Powershift posted:I belive the answers to your questions are meth, meth, it doesn't turn, north dakota, zip ties, and meth. Also uHauls employee towing training manual which is just a picture of a Corolla and Ford Explorer with the word nope circled underneath.
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8ender posted:Also uHauls employee towing training manual which is just a picture of a Corolla and Ford Explorer with the word nope circled underneath. That's still longer than the hauling portion of their manual.  WHY DID YOU TURN? WHY DID YOU FUCKIN TURN? Terrible Robot posted:Yeah that covers just about all of them. Pretty sure that falls under "north dakota"
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It is a Mobile Home. I wonder how much of their poo poo is still in there. DiggityDoink fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Dec 20, 2015 |
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EKDS5k posted:Are we doing comically oversized trailers? Please tell me that thing didn't actually have gasoline in it.
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DiggityDoink posted:It is a Mobile Home. I wonder how much of their poo poo is still in there. Looks like a jobsite office to me..
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Meydey posted:Back in the mid-90's I took my 78 280z to Sears for a cheap oil change and free brake check. No issues until I jumped in the car to pull away. Drove through the parking lot, and instead of stopping at the 1st stop sign, just kind of rolled through, even though the brake pedal was mashed to the floor. Used the ebrake to fully stop, got out and took a look. Right rear wheel was covered in brake fluid and I could see the springs/pads. Turned the car around carefully and limped back to Sears. Got out and walked into the bay where my car was worked on and my brake drum was sitting just about where the wheel was. Got a free brake job out of it. Are you red neck comedian wunderkind Ron White?
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Powershift posted:WHY DID YOU TURN? WHY DID YOU FUCKIN TURN? HOW COULD YOU TURN? HOW COULD YOU FUCKIN TURN? (I guess there are no curves in ND)
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DiggityDoink posted:It is a Mobile Home. I wonder how much of their poo poo is still in there. Surely they just found the trailer by the side of road and backed up the uhaul for a picture. Nobody could be this dense. Right?
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Great Beer posted:Surely they just found the trailer by the side of road and backed up the uhaul for a picture. Nobody could be this dense. Right? The rear end is hanging down a bit low there, and the front end is definitely sitting up high there.
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Nope that is a Real Picture, IIRC the NDSP or ND DOT posted the pic originally.
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smax posted:Please tell me that thing didn't actually have gasoline in it. Nah, it was empty. Nobody who has the capability to lift a full tank of gas that size would be dumb enough to put it on that trailer. Probably it would just crush it anyway, so ironically that would have been safer because it never would have made it onto the road.
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So I discovered yesterday (on ice luckily) that you can in fact turn the electronic parking brake on while still moving. Was stopping to grab the mail and my brain malfunctioned. I hit the ebrake before actually stopping and the car got really mad about it. I'm surprised it actually let it happen though.
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I saw this baby at the gas station, mobile hoarder?
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EKDS5k posted:Nah, it was empty. Nobody who has the capability to lift a full tank of gas that size would be dumb enough to put it on that trailer. Probably it would just crush it anyway, so ironically that would have been safer because it never would have made it onto the road. Even if it didn't have any liquid in it, if it was full of vapor that thing's a ~20,000 gallon fuel-air bomb.
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veedubfreak posted:So I discovered yesterday (on ice luckily) that you can in fact turn the electronic parking brake on while still moving. I tried hitting it in the loaner Chrysler 200 I had when my car was in the shop. It just beeped angrily and said I was going too fast on the display. It wouldn't engage if the car was moving at more than a crawl.
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xzzy posted:I'd guess they're homeless. Indistinguishable from a mobile hoarder. Both are sad.
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some texas redneck posted:I tried hitting it in the loaner Chrysler 200 I had when my car was in the shop. I once drove a 2007 Renault Laguna home using nothing but the electronic parking brake after the regular brakes fell off (  ). So it works on that car.
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