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| Slylee |
screw pepboys first of all! i swear i should have just taken my car to my mechanic for the extra $40. he's not exactly cheap, but he's honest and his mechanics aren't morons and the job gets done on time, and the right way, every single time i've taken my car to him for the past like 8 years.
anyway, i needed brake pads and roters and i dropped my damn car off at pepboys at like 11:30 in the morning yesterday. i call areound 4:30 in the afternoon to make sure it's done or almost done because i was leaving my job at 5 to go get it. of course they're like, "yea yea, it's almost done, bla bla bla"
i swear to god they didn't start working on it until i got there at 5:30. i had my mom drop me off so she wouldn't have to wait with me. i'm there for about 45 minutes when the manager (has a gold tooth by the way...nice) comes to me and explains that they put the wrong brake pads in. my car doesn't need the kind with sensors, yada yada. i'm like, "ok, so what are you telling me? do you have the right ones in stock?"
they check...and fortunately they did, but now i have to wait for them to put them in. i'm pissed, but i'm glad that they at least have the right ones there. so i'm waiting around and about 45 minutes later, they tell me that the roters they have are a tad bit too big and they don't have the right ones in stock and there's no way they can fix my car that night. so i had to call my mom to come back and get me and i couldn't go home that night and had to stay with her. i'm ing PISSED! i swear to god everyone in that store last night was a degenerate ing retard. no sense of urgency in any of the employees, just goofing off and . i sat there while this mechanic was on the phone with a customer and he must have answered the same question like 5 times.
"well, we get a new shipment in tomorrow around noon, so you can come back tomorrow and get it"
"yea, at noon. i would say come back around this time"
"yea, well the shipment comes in at 12:00, so i mean...yea, just come in tomorrow around this time and we should have it"
"it's going to be 59.99. yea usually the shipment gets here anywhere between 11:00 and 12:00, but i would say come in later in the afternoon"
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i felt like grabbing the goddamn phone from him and screaming, "ARE U ING RETARDED! COME BACK TOMORROW AFTER NOON! DID HE STUTTER?"
and the mechanic is an idiot for letting a line form in front of him with impatient customers just so he can answer the same question over and over.
oh yea and german cars suck by the way. i've had more damn problems with my VW than my boyfriend has ever had with his old lexus that has 200k miles on it. i swear his car runs smoother than mine and i have like 75k miles on it and i have a turbo too. over engineered pieces of crap. i used to be all about german cars, but man screw that. when i can finally afford a brand new luxury car, i'm going with a lexus. |
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| Sexomatic |
| haha nice..drink some vodka to calm down :eyespop: |
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| CONNERMAN2000 |
| lexus does pwn to the max. my dad had at 93 and it died at 270,000, which is pretty damn good for a car that was driven at least 3 hours a day EVERY day. |
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| kid nyce |
throw some kahlua in your coffee and you'll be alright =)
mechanics are like that unfortunately lol
that's why you have to find your own mechanic and always stick with them. sucks unfortunately |
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| monkchichi |
| haha I have about 10 friends who work in the car industry. german cars are like those pretty decorative samurai swords you see. real nice to look at but once you "use" it the way it's meant to be used, it breaks. german cars generally have 8-10 defects per hundred. japanese cars are down to 2-4 according to the statistics that my controls engineering friends tell me. japanese all the way. |
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| Slylee |
well i'm getting a fat discount...i still don't think it's worth it though.
i feel bad for my mechanic. i actually called him yesterday when i got the quote from pepboys and i wanted to know if it was like in the ball park, or if they were ripping me off. he said the price sounded about right.
he knows i'm not like loaded and that i was trying to save a few bucks, but man, am i sorry i didn't take it to him. i used to have an old bmw and i took it to him all the time, and i'd go in there and explain to him what i thought was wrong. like, "yea i think i need new spark plugs and bla bla bla" and he'd look at it and be like, "nah, u just need this". never tried to screw me over or anything. family owned company since the 80's. he's seriously the best mechanic ever...he's just kinda pricey, but i realize now his prices are completely justified. he gets it done right and he REALLY knows his when it comes to cars.
and now that i think of it...BMW's and benzes are ty too. the markup is ridiculous. cars are seriously the worst investments you could make. i'm starting to realize leasing might be better. |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by monkchichi
haha I have about 10 friends who work in the car industry. german cars are like those pretty decorative samurai swords you see. real nice to look at but once you "use" it the way it's meant to be used, it breaks. german cars generally have 8-10 defects per hundred. japanese cars are down to 2-4 according to the statistics that my controls engineering friends tell me. japanese all the way. |
yea a friend of mine gave me a little tuneup a while back because he's really good with cars and loves working on them. so i went to his place and watched him change my spark plugs and replace my oil filter and all that. i actually like to get my hands dirty and mess around with cars too if i know what i'm doing. it's fun. anyway, that's when i realized how overengineered my car was. there were like 4 steps to go through just to get to my spark plugs. no wonder the labor costs are more when you take it in for work. it was so frustrating. |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
has a gold tooth by the way...nice |
Holy , he does?! You wait here. I'll go fetch the police. |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
Holy , he does?! You wait here. I'll go fetch the police. |
you should go fetch a sense of humor too.:toothless |
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| lücid |
dealing with incompetent people like that, especially when they're responsible for working on my car, reeeeally pisses me off.
car repairs suck... that's why i drive a Honda. |
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| DigitalMP |
ask acquaintances and co-workers who they use for a mechanic. you should be able to someone who has a mechanic that dos really good work out of their garage (this is the key). these guys have no overhead, and aren't charging $60/hr, but rather $50-150 per job, plus parts.
I always have two or three, and these guys are so key, especially when you find one who is reliable. Back home I have one who did 9-5 work because he worked nights, and another two who worked nights and weekends. |
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| _Nut_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
car repairs suck... that's why i drive a Honda. |
Yes they do. I had to foot a 700 dollar bill to replace 2 o2 sensors.... :( |
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