What grinds your gears?

erod550 · Postby **erod550** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

People who don't change their own oil and then complain about the bad service they get at oil change places.

GR-8 · Postby **GR-8** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

yz007 wrote:When you make sure to park at the furthest parking everywhere you go, but still end up with a 2 inch gash/dent on the side of your 5mo old car. FML People have no respect for other people's cars anymore.

Interesting. I always park between cars. As long it looks like the have enough room to get in and are parked straight. Have not had a door ding ever. I really like it when I park in the first or last space next to an island and a nicer car is next to me. That's almost a guarantees no dings.

Some people just do it on purpose though..... park next to you.

erod550 · Postby **erod550** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

That works as long as you're going to be in and out quick, i.e. before either of the cars on the sides of you leave. Otherwise you're risking not only the doors of those two cars but the doors of the next two cars that come and park in those two spots.

Personally, I park as far away as I can, on an end if possible, and always between the lines. Parking all sideways, even if it's really far away and not affecting anyone, is just asking for someone to mess with your car. (Not saying that's what happened here)

kingtut · Postby **kingtut** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

erod550 wrote:People who don't change their own oil and then complain about the bad service they get at oil change places.

People who are so quick to state a rebuttal/opinion, to one person in particular- who they surely disagree with on most every topic:lol:
(politics, religion, cell phones, football, etc. etc.) Well, except tv shows, heh.

** I do conduct my OWN oil changes on personal vehicles. Let the record show (and to appease erod) that this requirement is for a work vehicle. For liability reasons, taxes, etc., I "pay to play".

Moving on...

kingtut · Postby **kingtut** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

GR-8 wrote:I really like it when I park.....next to an island and a nicer car is next to me. That's almost a guarantees no dings.

Guilty, I do this too.

kingtut · Postby **kingtut** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

tsx_guy wrote:call and setup an appt at the dealer dude. It costs the same, I get a wash/dry and vacuum. whee!

Interested...

erod550 · Postby **erod550** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

kingtut wrote:People who are so quick to state a rebuttal/opinion, to one person in particular- who they surely disagree with on most every topic:lol:
(politics, religion, cell phones, football, etc. etc.) Well, except tv shows, heh.

** I do conduct my OWN oil changes on personal vehicles. Let the record show (and to appease erod) that this requirement is for a work vehicle. For liability reasons, taxes, etc., I "pay to play".

Moving on...

Haha. I was just messing with you. And we do agree on some things. That Sprint has the best plans and that MS3s are a bitchin' ride.

yz007 · Postby **yz007** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

erod550 wrote:That works as long as you're going to be in and out quick, i.e. before either of the cars on the sides of you leave. Otherwise you're risking not only the doors of those two cars but the doors of the next two cars that come and park in those two spots.

Personally, I park as far away as I can, on an end if possible, and always between the lines. Parking all sideways, even if it's really far away and not affecting anyone, is just asking for someone to mess with your car. (Not saying that's what happened here)

Nope I park perfectly straight. (It is a pet peeve if things aren't even, including cars in spaces) I think it was a cart. It is low on the quarter panel, where the back driver door closes.

chickenwafer · Postby **chickenwafer** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

speedjunkie wrote:When you stress to a company that you need a part ASAP and they "understand" and screw you over anyway by putting you off until the very last minute.

RX7Store?? Could have seen that coming... :eek:

It really aggravates me when you obviously take pride in your car, you park it far away from anyone else because you don't want it to get dinged up..and then people will PURPOSEFULLY mess with it! Why??? I'm assuming it's because the know you actually care and will get upset...I swear we are turning into a world of assholes.

The problem is (uncontrollable rant, hang on) that laws actually protects the people doing bad things and not victims...case-and-point is car vandalism. If you catch some in the act of vandalizing your pride n joy, what can you LEGALLY do? Call the cops, which will take them over an hour to respond, so they've already gotten away, take pictures, collect evidence, ATTEMPT to sue the person in civil court and press charges, but it's a multi-month to year + long process. And then, IF (and that's a big IF) you actually get awarded any money from them by the courts, unless they have some kind of insurance that will pay it out, you then have to go back to court again and get a judgement to collect, and then they'll just declare bankruptcy or something and you'll NEVER get your money anyways.

You're not allowed to physically harm them or anything since your life isn't in danger, so like I said, the law is there to protect people who are perpetrating crimes more than the victims if anything, in at least these civil matters. 50 some years ago the law wasn't like this (or enforced as such at least) and if you caught someone messing with your car you kicked their ### and they never did it again.

/rant I got a little crazy there

kingtut · Postby **kingtut** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

Emissions testing centers. I HATE them. Incompetent foolz.

Took the jerk off 2-3 times of conducting the test....dumbsh** couldn't handle a manual transmission with so much powah (sarcasm), but seriously. The db couldn't even keep the little arrow on the line-- how F-ing hard is it? Really.

The entire test facility looks like a bunch of unshaven, baggy pant wearing, tabacco chewing/smoking, high school drop outs:mad:

Damn straight billed hat morons....

tsx_guy · Postby **tsx_guy** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

didn't you used to be that guy?

geo2maz · Postby **geo2maz** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

kingtut wrote:Emissions testing centers. I HATE them. Incompetent foolz.

I feel ya! I can't stand that place... did you go to the one by Evans? or the Havana one?
Next time do the rapid-screen thing, you just have to pay attention to doing it enough times 2-3 months before test is due... saves a lot of trouble,
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Faircarecolorado.com%2Frapidscreen%2F&ei=W-BcUIjjMI389gSC24DIBA&usg=AFQjCNE6HjBc8F7zz6mk6piCpZkmCjZUnQ

kingtut · Postby **kingtut** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

tsx_guy wrote:didn't you used to be that guy?

Uhhh, no-h. You know this mahn.

geo2maz wrote:I feel ya! I can't stand that place... did you go to the one by Evans? or the Havana one?
Next time do the rapid-screen thing, you just have to pay attention to doing it enough times 2-3 months before test is due... saves a lot of trouble,
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Faircarecolorado.com%2Frapidscreen%2F&ei=W-BcUIjjMI389gSC24DIBA&usg=AFQjCNE6HjBc8F7zz6mk6piCpZkmCjZUnQ

Colorado Blvd./County Line.

I've been to the Havana one before, when I had the A4. The db there put a tear in my (fake) leather seat.

I was planning on driving by those mobile deals, but since I...ahem, never really drive this car (M-F, when they do the side of the road deals) I was never able to pass one.

Which brings me to my second point. Why is it that they have the technology to sniff test your car, when you zing by for .75 seconds, yet when you go to the testing centers-- they plug into your OBII, hang a big hose on your tail pipe, rev the sheet out of your car- take it through the ringer, test your gas cap, etc. etc. to have the same result. Something's wrong with this picture. WTF?

geo2maz · Postby **geo2maz** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

Good point, would save everyone time/moonie.

Learjet45 · Postby **Learjet45** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:14

Trying to fix a problem only to have it blow up in your face and become the biggest problem of your life, and losing the most important person in your life because of it.

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