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They might of done it knowing how little of miles they ran on the car. I know they had some retrofitted parts due to some not existing anymore. Then something about an oil filter adapter....

One of the police departments I dealt with in towing, one of their seizure cars they had for undercover work was an Yugo. Only complaint I heard from their shop was that the timing belt had to replaced pretty much you did an oil change...

There is a big hybrid shop here in Portland, Atomic Auto that runs out of an old Firestone shop. They also will buy other hybrids for parts.

I was in the market for a good adjustable wrench after I realized in my move last summer, my genuine Crescent wrench one decided to fly away. After going back and forth, I just ended with a set of 3 from Harbor Freight, the Pittsburgh 3 pack.

When I worked on the supplier side of retail, I know that some Wal-Marts had some "store specific" policies that weren't approved by corporate in Arkansas. Some of them were the result of a recurring swindle, then some of then were actually were "policies" that employees created so they would...

On the 2005 Grand Cherokee I had before my current Jeep, I had the battery replaced by a NAPA AGM Gold about 6 months after I bought it, which it was replaced in June of 2020. it failed 2 years later almost to the day. When I went to see about taking up the warranty, the sales gal at my usual...

My dad did Coumbia House to build his CD collection. I remember around like 1993 him going "What the hell" when the selection of the month was like "Hootie and the Blowfish" which confused me as a kid. Then as an adult, I saw this documentary...

You just reminded me of osmething. My old boss was a big fan of those NOCO jump packs, he somehow has fried a few of them and he would go to a specific Batteries Plus that would exchange them on the spot. I’ve wondered why he was driving 25 miles out of his way for a while, now I have a hunch...

I actually bought the starter for my Grand Cherokee with the 4.7 from Amazon for 47.00! i know an old timer who used to do rebuilds and I was talking to him about the huge price range on this starter. He told me the price difference is trying to match everything on the starter. He asked me if...

I am a big Mopar guy; first car was an 1995 Caravan SE that I got from my grandfather. Last van I had was an 2010 Town & Country that had the 3.8, which I liked better than the Pentastar a bit.

No worries! I understand when you need to pay to play, this was the case here. I was happy with their shop rate and the parts costs, while the man was my age, late 30s, he looked Iike he used an Excel spreadsheet to give a quote instead of auto shop POS system. So when he read off 6 hours, he...

I’ve asked something along the lines of “I see you are charging X hours of labor on this service, I can’t see how it takes that long, can you explain?” Gotten some decent answers, like “It’s what the book time shows” and “I won’t charge you more than that unless we find a bigger problem.”...

Ha! Yeah, I start to walk away when I hear “scripts” like this. “We offer the lowest price in the region” I heard once when getting a quote on tires.

I think now is there a huge discrepancy in the relationship between the value of the service and the actual cost. And worse, is the actual shop techs are stuck in the middle. And and and…customers are starting to question it and it does catch service advisors by surprise and shop owners too...

I was wondering about the DNA manufactuer code on the group 65 I just bought. It reminds me kind of an old school Delco Freedom battery, especially the "green eye"....