"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
06/10/2019 at 00:34 • Filed to: justrolledintotheshop
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"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
06/10/2019 at 00:34 • Filed to: justrolledintotheshop | 1
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Summertime means my truck gets a lot more miles put on it for various trips, starting with my annual trip to the Indy 500. A few weeks before that trip my truck started pulling to the left. My route to work is a mine field of potholes, so I figured something got knocked out of whack, and took it to an alignment shop I’ve used a couple times.
$89.99 later, and I swear it was like they’d done nothing to it. They couldn’t get me back in before the Indy 500 trip, so I just had to deal with it. This past Wednesday, they took it back in to get it right this time. They worked on it for about half an hour, test drove it, then put it back on the lift and worked on it for another hour. It passed on the second test drive. They told me they couldn’t give me align sheet, because I had to ask for it ahead of time. Well, whatever, as long as it tracked straight , and it did.
Cut to today, and we’re getting ready to take a little road trip up north to Door County. I felt a weird shimmy twice today at full lock getting in and out of parking spots, so I decided to check it out. Lon g story short, my buddy and I found a ton of slop in my left upper ball joint. They had trouble aligning it, because they were aligning worn out parts.
The truck is sidelined for the trip tomorrow. My wife doesn’t want to cram into her CX-5, and I can’t afford to rent a Tahoe for $600, so I tossed my buddy a C-note and borrowed his ‘03 Grand Marquis.
I need to find a new shop to do the ball joint and a fresh alignment before my trip to Road America in a couple weeks.
I’m bleeding money lately, so I better find a way to make some more!
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> shop-teacher
06/10/2019 at 00:58 |
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Lousy. A decent alignment shop would tell you that you had worn suspension bits and couldn't do a proper alignment.
Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
> shop-teacher
06/10/2019 at 01:10 |
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I’ve always found the direct approach to the powers that be the most successful at obtaining more moneys.
YMMV...
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shop-teacher
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
06/10/2019 at 01:12 |
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Exactly.
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shop-teacher
> Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
06/10/2019 at 01:13 |
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Duly noted and thank you.
CTSenVy
> shop-teacher
06/10/2019 at 01:30 |
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They had to know those were worn out. Which explains the lack of paperwork.
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Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> CTSenVy
06/10/2019 at 01:36 |
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Hey now -- filling out a templated sheet can take six or seven seconds sometimes.
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shop-teacher
> CTSenVy
06/10/2019 at 01:37 |
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You'd think they'd want the extra work of replacing it though. If they had told me your ball joint is FUBARed, it'll be XXX to replace it, I would have said yes.
Tristan
> shop-teacher
06/10/2019 at 03:37 |
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I just did all four on the Suburban today because the alignment shop told me the left lower was bad and they could replace it for $500... Naturally, I politely declined and elected to do it myself.
You just have to come to Oregon and I’ll knock ‘em out for you! That may be a challenge, though.
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> Tristan
06/10/2019 at 08:12 |
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No problem, I’ll just ship it out to you. That’ll save some money!
Oh yeah, we noticed my steering rack is leaking as well. Plus it's due for front brakes.
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Tristan
> shop-teacher
06/10/2019 at 11:09 |
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At least your rear main isn’t leaking, I suppose... I’m still waiting for my rear cover alignment tool to come in so I can put all of that back together.
My parents come to town on Thursday, so it would be really nice to have it back together so we don’t have to take 2 cars everywhere, but it's also finals week, so that may be a stretch.
fryguy
> shop-teacher
06/10/2019 at 13:29 |
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Oh yeah - driving the old folks car.
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shop-teacher
> fryguy
06/10/2019 at 17:47 |
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Exactly!
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> Tristan
06/10/2019 at 17:47 |
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True story.