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Where did the pirate go for lunch? ARRRbys!

I’ve quiet quit before. It was shortly followed by actual quitting. It was my last gig at a car dealership. I had come from main shop at the last dealer but started in quick lane to get my foot in the door here. I had just more than doubled their sales record for my position and spent the...

I hope wherever you live doesn’t have suicidal deer like Missouri does.

Weird. I spent 10 years as a tech before I moved to the desk. I must have been a terrible tech all that time, knowing little to anything about cars and all 🤣 I later found the best position in the automotive industry is out of it!

Exactly! The 5.4 2v lived on in the E series until they temporarily went away. I believe they even added more spark plug threads in the head in late 03-04???? But I won’t swear to it.

I used to sell a decent amount of stuff through marketplace and eBay. eBay just got to where there wasn’t enough interest in the stuff I was trying to sell. My wife started making natural beauty and cleaning products to sell on Facebook. We share a checking account and since she entered the same...

Why are people buying these knowing about the issues? I asked the same about Ford’s 1.5/1.6 Ecoboost engines. With that example I assumed it was the ignorance of the problems from non car people. This is at least the second post in a week about “will changing the oil more often fix this major...

Never had an issue with any Shell products and usage compared to other brands. I have seen it before where a different brand will be consumed a little bit during a first usage. If you wanna use QS I’d give it another oci. If not either of the other options you listed are quality products as well.

I’ve had good luck with Motorcraft wipers. Cheaper than the auto parts store and even cheaper than the “premium” selections at Walmart. Seemed to always hold up for over a year before they would start to tear.

85% of the techs I’ve worked with, including myself can’t hear ****! Lubies impact go ugga dugga! And every time it does we lose a percentage of our hearing 🤣

But what’s better anymore? The 22 Pacifica we bought new has already had more problems than the 17 Explorer it replaced. We bought the Explorer because an 18 Sienna(2 years old at the time) with 40k left us stranded on the initial test drive. These “engineers” degrees aren’t worth the crayon...

Napa conventional, Federated conventional and assorted flavors of Supertech. Never an issue with any of them.

It’s come full circle. Just spend an hour on YouTube watching all the street racers with their XL trim short bed 4x4 F150s with a 5.0 and supercharger!

I guess this is my plan. I’ve always claimed to “know” I’d never make it past 40. I’ve got about 6 months left if that feeling is correct 😳 and I have a crappy truck!

In my area only one dealership has a thinned out truck section and it’s 100% due to the quality of the dealership and their service department not the vehicles themselves.

My brother in law made me this one out of kydex. Cards on one side, cash and business cards on the other. Fits easily in a front pocket. I’ve been using it for around two years now.

I would do the absolute minimum and hope to blow it up before the powertrain warranty is up. Maybe by then they’ll have the engine updated to remedy the current issues they’re having.

I took a pay cut from carrying out groceries when I started wrenching at a dealership after high school. It was the first of many disappointments in the auto industry. Maybe when I die I can get a group of dealership management to be my pall bearers so they can let me down one last time 🤣

My shortest “adult job” was also my favorite. Working in manufacturing. I made the glass beads that are radiated and used for cancer treatment. I had to leave due to loss of childcare. I parted on good terms and if life leads me back to that job again at some point I’d be quite happy to do it!

Tell that to every Chevy fan boy ever. Us Ford guys would never bring up the reliability of the 4.9 I6 though….oh wait 🤣