/o/ on Doug Demuro

"Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder" (pabuuu4) 08/19/2015 at 22:13 • Filed to: /o/

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Just /o/ being /o/

Always fun to see.

HammerheadFistpunch > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 08/19/2015 at 22:20

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I make it a point to avoid anything with a forward slash, letter, forward slash. It seems like its never a good idea.

Scorpio GTX1 > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 08/19/2015 at 22:21

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I didn’t expect to agree with 4Chan, but yeah, that was a pretty dumb article.

DasWauto > Scorpio GTX1 08/19/2015 at 22:27

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Yeah, I normally like Doug’s posts but he lost me at telling them it was a 2010 on that one.

Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder > HammerheadFistpunch 08/19/2015 at 22:28

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/o/ is pretty good, trytry looking for the Long post guy stories on there, he is great. There are some regular threads that have good information and pics that I never saw before, especially on Japanese cars.

/b/ isn’t all of 4chan is what I’m trying to say.

BReLp7dzHM3ytYsE > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 08/19/2015 at 22:36

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Lol

For Sweden > DasWauto 08/19/2015 at 22:42

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When I took my Volvo in I told them it was a Toyota

For Sweden > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 08/19/2015 at 22:42

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There’s nothing smug about Miata love

Scorpio GTX1 > DasWauto 08/19/2015 at 22:44

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I can’t help but feel vicariously embarrassed for him. The service tech probably thought he must be the biggest moron on Earth to have brought the car there in the first place for something that could be fixed in two seconds. Yeah, of course they’re going to happily take your money for something as easy as that. He should have waited for a serious repair and seen how they’d respond then, and also not be a total doofus about it.

Sneaky Pete > BReLp7dzHM3ytYsE 08/19/2015 at 22:45

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Dass raciss!

samssun > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 08/19/2015 at 22:49

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I completely agree with everything in this post, and genuinely wonder whether Doug is the actual OP or not.

(The Jalopnik ignorant/righteous dichotomy hits a little close to home doesn’t it? It’s almost like progressives being “tolerant” of anyone they agree with)

DasWauto > Scorpio GTX1 08/19/2015 at 22:53

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Likewise. I feel like if he had told them it was a 1990 GT-R and taken it in for something less menial he might’ve actually gotten some of the enthusiasm he was hoping for. Great idea for an experiment/article, but he flopped on this one.

Doug DeMuro > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 08/19/2015 at 22:54

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Hahahahaha

True victory.

Doug DeMuro > Scorpio GTX1 08/19/2015 at 22:55

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Why was it dumb?

Dozens of people over several months asked me to take it to the dealer, so I did. That column was the result. Pretty straightforward, and clearly many other people were interested too.

NipperDawg > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 08/19/2015 at 22:58

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Lost me at faggot and nigger, i wanted to punch them all.

x87172 > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 08/19/2015 at 22:59

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So many classic 4Chan quotes there.

Didn’t this guy crash a brand new Camaro at a test run?

I can’t tell all corny white guys look alike to me.

DasWauto > Doug DeMuro 08/19/2015 at 23:04

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(I’m not the one you asked but) I thought the idea for a column was great, but the way you went about it less so. As mentioned, I think you can try it again and get a different and perhaps more enthusiastic response from a dealer by telling them what the car actually is when you take it in. Telling them the car is something it’s clearly not is only going to give them the impression that you’re some oblivious jackass ignorant of what he drives, which is never going to elicit the kind of response you’re looking for.

Do try it again, at a different dealer, I’d read it(, again).

DogonCrook > Doug DeMuro 08/19/2015 at 23:08

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You have to understand, when a dude walks up to you with a desirable car, doesn’t know what year it is, and asks to fix something trivial, the only reaction your going to get is a blank stare, because on the inside they are thinking “fuck this rich douche nozzle”, and they don’t want to lose their job. What would your reaction be if some guy came up to you after stepping out of pantera and said, “hey write an article about my lambo”...

Not the end of the world, it just wasn’t a well executed plan. It was worth a shot, it just didn’t work.

Doug DeMuro > DasWauto 08/19/2015 at 23:12

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Two things. If I had told them what it was, it may well have ruined the whole thing. In fact, I think there’s a good chance they would’ve told me on the phone they wouldn’t be able to work on it. And if they had known it was coming, it wouldn’t have made the story interesting at all, because there wouldn’t have been a surprise factor.

Most importantly, it didn’t even matter. The person who I was supposed to have the appointment with was “busy” when I came in, so some other guy who had no record of my appointment took me at his station instead. I had to re-tell him all of the information anyway; he literally had no idea what I was coming in with and for what. I could’ve told the “busy” guy I was coming in with a 1921 Hupmobile, and the person who eventually took me at his station would’ve had me repeat all that stuff to him again anyway.

Most importantly — and this is by far the key to the column being so popular — I was not looking for any response. People who thought I wanted them to get excited about the car missed the point of the column. The only response I wanted was exactly the one I got: an interesting one. As a result, I couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 08/19/2015 at 23:14

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I hope this thread wasn’t supposed to be an example of that...

Doug DeMuro > DogonCrook 08/19/2015 at 23:16

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I don’t understand why you think it didn’t work. The column got 400,000 views, the video got 200,000 plays, and the commenters all seemed to love the fact that the guy didn’t really care. I was looking for an interesting response, and by not responding at all, the guy at the dealer gave me the single most interesting response I could’ve asked for. It worked perfectly .

Spaceball-Two > Doug DeMuro 08/19/2015 at 23:24

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I'm pretty sure you have eyebrows

samssun > NipperDawg 08/19/2015 at 23:26

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The good news is we have a “safe space” to shelter you in. The bad news is your use of the word “punch” acted as a trigger for the other snowflakes there, plus we can’t tolerate such blatant transableism against people who identify as not having fists, so unfortunately you’re stuck in the cruel world of dangerous words.

DogonCrook > Doug DeMuro 08/19/2015 at 23:27

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You say it would have ruined it if you did tell them, I feel it ruined it because you told them the wrong year. You made the focus on you, not the car. Fair enough about the views, I wasn’t really talking about it failing in that aspect.

Doug DeMuro > DogonCrook 08/19/2015 at 23:34

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I’m curious — have you worked in a dealership? I say this because I’ve worked in three, and appointments are fast and loose at these places because customers skip on them all the time. Plus, in my experience, the receptionist who takes down the car details gets it wrong half the time anyway.

The funny thing is, it didn’t matter: when I arrived for my “appointment,” my advisor was busy and another advisor who had none of my details had to re-take all my details anyway, from year make and model on up. He wouldn’t have known if my appointment had been for a 2010 GT-R or a 1921 Hupmobile. (Obviously at this point I was truthful with my details since the car was sitting outside.)

From your remark that you think I made it “about me,” it seems like you think I wanted the dealer to fawn all over the car (or perhaps that I wanted the dealer to fawn all over me, which makes no sense). I didn’t — I wanted an interesting reaction, and I got it. Having seen the (overwhelmingly positive) response to this column, I now consider the dealer’s (non-)reaction to be the best possible thing that could’ve happened. I truly couldn’t be more pleased it went the way it did.

If you were disappointed with the column, it sounds like you wanted the dealer to freak out more than they did. I just wanted a good story to tell, and I got it.

DogonCrook > Doug DeMuro 08/19/2015 at 23:44

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No I haven’t worked at a dealership. But calm down, when I say about you, I’m not implying it was an attention seeking thing. I’m saying at that point you are not a regular customer with a cool car, you are that oblivious guy driving a cool car. Remember that guy you used to snicker at and who was turned into an inside joke when you worked at a dealership? You became that guy. That’s all I’m saying. It doesn’t really tell me how anybody would react if I show up in a skyline at a dealership.

Edit: I also didn’t realise that they got the details wrong anyways, I don’t remember if you mentioned that in the article. If that’s the case then my point is moot and I apologize.

Doug DeMuro > DogonCrook 08/19/2015 at 23:47

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To be 100% honest, you might be right. There are a lot of possible interpretations of what went on, and yours isn’t totally off point at all. I just wanted to argue my side a bit so you aren’t totally disheartened by it. In the end, I actually do think, as a story, it was a pretty good one.

On the bright side, I have a new GT-R this weekend to do a comparison between new versus old! Hopefully I won’t screw this one up :)

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Scorpio GTX1 08/19/2015 at 23:52

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I don’t really enjoy his articles, seems kind of smug and pretentious. I don’t really know how to describe it, I feel like he does things with expensive things and then acts like it’s no big deal and flaunts it or something. Like a frat guy with money trying to be funny.

DogonCrook > Doug DeMuro 08/19/2015 at 23:59

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I think another interesting article would be to have totally different people take it in, or dress radically different and be in character. Go from sweat pants, to Rolex, to frosted spiked hair.

But no worries, it a blog, I’m really not that critical, I’m just saying that not having a reaction is hard to interpret really.

samssun > Doug DeMuro 08/20/2015 at 00:05

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I bet most of those readers/viewers expected something to happen. And they probably feel a bit Y2Ked. Having nothing happen may be the journalistic truth, but in the interest of entertainment maybe that should’ve been the first half of the story, and you should’ve incited something for the second half. Maybe a side-specific repair like troubleshooting slop in your steering joint, or having it aligned.

Scorpio GTX1 > Doug DeMuro 08/20/2015 at 01:54

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The basic concept of the article is fine, but I think the execution of it was flawed. I was eager myself to see what would happen when you took it to a dealership, but my curiosity was about whether or not they’d perform a major repair on a car they have no technical experience with, and not about if they’d get all giddy at being in the presence of a Skyline. Look, it’s one hell of a cool car, but if they service R35 GT-Rs, then they’re probably a little desensitized to cool. I guess I was expecting one thing and got another, so maybe it’s my own fault for being disappointed. I just wasn’t all that surprised that they didn’t care much.

Doug DeMuro > Scorpio GTX1 08/20/2015 at 11:19

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To be honest, I would never bring the car to a dealer for a major repair. I understand my cars are entertainment for most of the readers, as I intend, but we have to draw the line somewhere. These are my personal finances (not Gawker’s) and I would only trust the car with the pros.

NipperDawg > samssun 08/20/2015 at 15:06

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I’ve been bashed in the past, I’ve been called faggot in NYC in the West Village, yes words hurt and I would like to share the hurt and the pain with these assholes.

Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 08/20/2015 at 18:58

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Here is a large collection of longpost guy stories, he really delivers soms quality posts.

http://imgur.com/a/XvcZM

keen > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 08/21/2015 at 01:53

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what’s wrong with the thread? it’s not offensive, and there’s well written points. just people offering their opinions.