by "RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
Published 03/16/2017 at 01:16
by "RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
Published 03/16/2017 at 01:16
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STARS: 8
What I say
What I think
It’s the little things that get you through the day. To be clear, I did not recommend this car be repaired, and fortunately it wasn’t.
"InFierority Complex" (lanciere)
03/16/2017 at 01:21, STARS: 3
Until one day when you accidentally print the second one and they get a free repair
"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
03/16/2017 at 01:26, STARS: 0
My boss started putting a word of the day on the prep list board. Today in was “gaping dick hole”. We are very mature where I work.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/16/2017 at 01:26, STARS: 0
Nah, I sometimes just type the first sentence that comes to mind then immediately delete it in my first draft of a report. It’s mildly therapeutic. A lot of my clients would just laugh if I somehow let this go all the way to an invoice. And I strongly advised against fixing this car, in any case.
"facw" (facw)
03/16/2017 at 01:36, STARS: 0
Honestly I prefer the first. It really makes it much more clear how truly fucked they are. Though it would be nice if there were a sign of an obvious quick lube fuck up so you could fix the car, and the customer could send the bill to the oil change place.
"InFierority Complex" (lanciere)
03/16/2017 at 01:40, STARS: 1
All I know of restaurant work culture comes from the movie Waiting, so that would fit I think.
"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
03/16/2017 at 01:43, STARS: 0
That movie is a stretch, but still accurate.
"Birddog" (maintmgt)
03/16/2017 at 02:04, STARS: 2
When I was in HS I worked at an old school lumberyard where we would pull the lumber for the customer, punch up the invoice and send it directly to the cashier. (The customer would not see the sheet I wrote up.) I had one guy that came out to the yard and made a smallish order a living hell. Any “defects” were dismissed and we dug through several bunks to fill the order with “perfect” boards.
In the line items I punched in
1....Bite my ass....$0.01
Turned out that corporate got a cc of every invoice sent to the register. Which led to a fun conversation with the store manager.
"Xyl0c41n3" (i-am-xyl0c41n3)
03/16/2017 at 06:24, STARS: 1
I work for a newspaper. One day a buddy of mine was mocking up the front page with placeholder headlines and text. He basically put “Well, fuck. Nobody knows what’s going on here.”
Sadly, that really was the actual gist of the real story. Too bad we couldn’t actually print it that way. Heh.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/16/2017 at 07:10, STARS: 1
I laughed so hard I snorted!
"Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever" (rustanddust)
03/16/2017 at 08:25, STARS: 1
Worked at a salvage yard years ago, we shared our inventory listings with a few neighboring yards, so we could just quote sales off of each others inventories. Looking for Bonneville pieces, so I checked to see if anyone had an entire front end cut, and found one with the following description:
“Needs bumper and cooling (fucked up by forklift)“
"EL_ULY" (uly)
03/16/2017 at 08:50, STARS: 3
Lol here is one we made for our Aston tech’s Ford Super Duty.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/16/2017 at 10:59, STARS: 0
Haha perfect! I did that for my buddy’s old 240SX, “this engine sucks, recommend SR20DET”.
"EL_ULY" (uly)
03/16/2017 at 12:27, STARS: 0
lol burn!
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/16/2017 at 12:37, STARS: 0
Well fuck! What is it in?
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/16/2017 at 12:51, STARS: 0
Dude, I found it still archived in my old system! Check out the bottom two notes...
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/16/2017 at 12:55, STARS: 1
R56 cooper S clubman, automatic. They’re crap.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/16/2017 at 12:56, STARS: 0
Lol, that is shitty. Go used motor.....
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/16/2017 at 12:57, STARS: 1
No way, those turbo 1.6s are shit. I don’t trust new ones, let alone used ones. And the one that died was a used unit, replaced less than a year ago!
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/16/2017 at 12:59, STARS: 0
That was a sarcastic “Go used engine” hence the ...
I like how they look exterior wise. I hate the interior and the tiny motor.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/16/2017 at 13:05, STARS: 1
Ah, got it :) Yeah, they look fine, and I admit they’re fun to drive, but the second gen new Mini is a POS. The first supercharged ones are kind of cool, and have decent longevity. Then BMW fucked it up, as they have everything else.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/16/2017 at 13:19, STARS: 0
Preach!
"philipilihp" (philiphilip)
03/16/2017 at 16:15, STARS: 0
Wow. That is a a lot of melting right there.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/16/2017 at 16:29, STARS: 0
Yeah. This thing was done. Guy ignored all the signs and drove it until it quit.
"philipilihp" (philiphilip)
03/16/2017 at 16:51, STARS: 0
Waste of a perfectly good oil change the previous day..
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/16/2017 at 16:53, STARS: 0
It wasn’t a perfectly good oil change, they didn’t check the damn coolant! Awfully coincidental. Quick lube places, man.
"philipilihp" (philiphilip)
03/16/2017 at 16:54, STARS: 0
Yeah true. They should’ve probably spotted something was up if it ended that catastrophically. Aren’t those quick lube places supposed to top up vital fluids and what-not?
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/16/2017 at 16:59, STARS: 0
Supposed to, but that’s what happens when you have untrained eyes just changing oil. They do make a point about charging a buttload for fluid services though, so it’s surprising they didn’t upsell the guy.
" The Compromiser" (charger)
03/16/2017 at 18:36, STARS: 0
LS Swap.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/16/2017 at 18:45, STARS: 0
Hard to do in a new Mini, but it’d be better than the stock lump.
" The Compromiser" (charger)
03/16/2017 at 18:52, STARS: 0
Maybe just the L then.
"philipilihp" (philiphilip)
03/17/2017 at 10:13, STARS: 0
Well I don’t think this guy deserved to drive the Mini or any other car for grossly ignoring most likely obvious warning signs.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/17/2017 at 11:50, STARS: 1
There are some people for whom public transit makes perfect sense. :)