"Bandit" (2bandit)
07/08/2014 at 18:20 • Filed to: rant
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"Bandit" (2bandit)
07/08/2014 at 18:20 • Filed to: rant | 7
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My 10 mile commute took 40 minutes to drive home tonight, thanks so much to my city and their stop light fetish. Know what's also stupid? Being told to drive to Indy for a very time sensitive matter and as you're walking out the door being told the car is completely out of gas and that there is a nail in the tire. What the fuck people?! Thanks previous drivers for using an air impact to tighten the lug nuts to the point where I needed a 4 foot long breaker bar. Thanks GM and your absolutely shitty spare tire design (crane thingy), your shitty jack that takes 10 minutes to extend because you didn't want to include a usable handle (or even one like in my Blazer), your use of 6 lug wheels on the Traverse so I couldn't use the full size spare from my truck, and finally thanks for using a space saver spare instead of a full size one so that I had to fix the damn bad tire before I went on my trip. I had to make an hour drive in under 40 minutes (yay 85mph cruise). What have we learned? I can drive to Indy in the same amount of time it takes for me to drive home. Fuck this shit. Fuck everyone and everything. Fuck.
MAXIMUMVRM
> Bandit
07/08/2014 at 18:31 |
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i feel for you. My 8 mile trip from Hermosa beach to culver city once consisted of gf smashing front end of car and popping both front tires night before. None of which she told me about the night before. Work came 2nd as my car meant more. Moral... Don't let gf take nice car out for girls night.
Takuro Spirit
> Bandit
07/08/2014 at 18:32 |
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Fuck your shitty picture of a BF Goodrich Traction T/A
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Bandit
> Takuro Spirit
07/08/2014 at 18:33 |
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Fuck Google's shitty picture of a BF Goodrich Traction T/A. The company car had some eco tire.
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Takuro Spirit
> Bandit
07/08/2014 at 18:36 |
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Phase I. Drive company car with nail in tire.
Phase II. Get a blowout and die in a horrible accident
Phase III. ???
PROFIT!!!!!!
quarterlifecrisis
> Bandit
07/08/2014 at 18:37 |
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I'm going to ask a question that probably requires the flame suit...why not just take your own car and get mileage at that point, if it's time sensitive?
Textured Soy Protein
> Bandit
07/08/2014 at 18:41 |
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I had a slow leak in a tire. I took my car to Discount Tire where they checked it out, found a nail, patched it up, and then said "no charge." This was on the OE tires that came on the car. I've bought a bunch of other stuff from them over the years, but still, free patch on tires I didn't even buy there. Pretty sweet.
sketchcat
> Bandit
07/08/2014 at 19:23 |
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umm.
Not a nail.
its a Cap Screw or Bolt depending on application.
Grade marks are worn off.
http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-cap-…
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Takuro Spirit
07/08/2014 at 19:36 |
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Phase III. GM Recall*
thedevilinside
> MAXIMUMVRM
07/08/2014 at 21:01 |
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*Ex GF
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Takuro Spirit
> Textured Soy Protein
07/08/2014 at 21:05 |
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Did they take the tire off and patch it correctly from the inside, or use a rope plug?
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Textured Soy Protein
> Takuro Spirit
07/08/2014 at 21:06 |
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Um, I remember them saying they took it off the rim, so I'm assuming it was a proper patch.
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Takuro Spirit
> Textured Soy Protein
07/08/2014 at 21:08 |
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Cooooool that was nice of them.
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MAXIMUMVRM
> thedevilinside
07/08/2014 at 21:15 |
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Yes was my first brand new car I ever bought and only a couple months old. She went up a curb that was 1/2 foot high at speed and drive home. She was sorry and gone.
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thedevilinside
> MAXIMUMVRM
07/08/2014 at 21:29 |
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My GF doesn't drive my car, so no opportunities there. Sucks about the car.