ROFL....Edgumicated costomers.

BCRICH · 02-13-04, 03:00 PM

I had one of my customers today tell me he wanted his spark plugs rotated on his car.

His reason was good in a sense. He knows on his DIS that each one of the coils fire two plugs at a time, one negitive and one on the companion cylinder positive. So one plug wears the electrode while the other wears the ground. Well he figured if he would switch them around they would start wearing oposite and last longer.

I had another gal come in that her co workers fuxord with and told her in the winter she needs to have the summer air taken out of her tires and winter air put in. She showed up at our shop wanting us to change the air out.

I wounder if I can sell them blinker fluid.

travis · 02-13-04, 04:39 PM

how much are your muffler bearings? mine are worn out.

BCRICH · 02-13-04, 04:42 PM

Actually We had a MB that had muffler bearings on it. They were just bushings but when you got the part they were listed as bearings.

OtakingGX · 02-13-04, 05:00 PM

[quote=BCRICH]So one plug wears the electrode while the other wears the ground. Well he figured if he would switch them around they would start wearing oposite and last longer.

QUOTE]How much is a spark plug for the car? Even if rotating the plugs did make them last longer I can't see the cost of the labor being worth it. Or were you expected to rotate them for free?

BCRICH · 02-13-04, 05:16 PM

Thats why I have the

there. If I am going to go to the trouble to pull them out I am going to put new ones in. I don't even regap old plugs. If they come out they get replaced. Most plugs are cheap enough not to mention some cars today can take 2 to 4 hours to put plugs in. Unless they are easy to get to and end up being 15 to 20 dollar per plug ones they get replaced. Even if they are 20 dollar plugs if it takes 3 hours to change them, the vehicle is getting new ones.

nextbillgates · 02-18-04, 10:17 PM

Quote:

I wounder if I can sell them blinker fluid.

I just got it topped off

Do you sell cold-air exhausts? I want one

nextbillgates · 02-18-04, 10:26 PM

Taking it to the other extreme....

My mom blew a head gasket on her Toyota truck about a year ago. She took it to a local mechanic to get it fixed, and he talked her into replacing the entire engine for $1,500 (the truck is worth about $2,250, btw).

After she gets this done, I point out to her that the engine tempurature gauge isn't working, as we'd been driving down the freeway for nearly half an hour, and it hadn't budged from the "cold" position.

Her response?

"It's supposed to be that way. If it the needle rises, the engine is getting too hot."

Right....

OtakingGX · 02-18-04, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by nextbillgates

I just got it topped off

Do you sell cold-air exhausts? I want one

They have these! Well, kinda. Chrysler built the Chrysler Turbine way back in the 60's and 70's. They had a regenerator in the car to take heat from the hot exhaust gasses and pre-heat the incoming air before it made it into the gas turbine. So it worked as a hot-air intake/cold-air exhaust. It made the exhaust gas temperatures somewhat manageable in contrast to most gas turbines.

02-13-04, 03:00 PM	#1
BCRICH Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: In your moms bed. Posts: 6,708	ROFL....Edgumicated costomers. I had one of my customers today tell me he wanted his spark plugs rotated on his car. His reason was good in a sense. He knows on his DIS that each one of the coils fire two plugs at a time, one negitive and one on the companion cylinder positive. So one plug wears the electrode while the other wears the ground. Well he figured if he would switch them around they would start wearing oposite and last longer. I had another gal come in that her co workers fuxord with and told her in the winter she needs to have the summer air taken out of her tires and winter air put in. She showed up at our shop wanting us to change the air out. I wounder if I can sell them blinker fluid. __________________ Originally Posted by Sir_Gallahad In related news, Al-Qaeda has also announced its revamped slogan for terroists around the world. Global Hatred of American Democracy or G-HAD shall now be the battlecry of terrorists across the globe. The plus to Alzheimer's is your always meeting new people. I swear some people come from a gene pool with no lifegaurd. You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up. Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep.

02-13-04, 04:42 PM	#3
BCRICH Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: In your moms bed. Posts: 6,708	Actually We had a MB that had muffler bearings on it. They were just bushings but when you got the part they were listed as bearings. __________________ Originally Posted by Sir_Gallahad In related news, Al-Qaeda has also announced its revamped slogan for terroists around the world. Global Hatred of American Democracy or G-HAD shall now be the battlecry of terrorists across the globe. The plus to Alzheimer's is your always meeting new people. I swear some people come from a gene pool with no lifegaurd. You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up. Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep.

02-13-04, 05:16 PM	#5
BCRICH Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: In your moms bed. Posts: 6,708	Thats why I have the there. If I am going to go to the trouble to pull them out I am going to put new ones in. I don't even regap old plugs. If they come out they get replaced. Most plugs are cheap enough not to mention some cars today can take 2 to 4 hours to put plugs in. Unless they are easy to get to and end up being 15 to 20 dollar per plug ones they get replaced. Even if they are 20 dollar plugs if it takes 3 hours to change them, the vehicle is getting new ones. __________________ Originally Posted by Sir_Gallahad In related news, Al-Qaeda has also announced its revamped slogan for terroists around the world. Global Hatred of American Democracy or G-HAD shall now be the battlecry of terrorists across the globe. The plus to Alzheimer's is your always meeting new people. I swear some people come from a gene pool with no lifegaurd. You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up. Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep.

02-18-04, 10:26 PM	#7
nextbillgates Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Southern California Posts: 2,638	Taking it to the other extreme.... My mom blew a head gasket on her Toyota truck about a year ago. She took it to a local mechanic to get it fixed, and he talked her into replacing the entire engine for $1,500 (the truck is worth about $2,250, btw). After she gets this done, I point out to her that the engine tempurature gauge isn't working, as we'd been driving down the freeway for nearly half an hour, and it hadn't budged from the "cold" position. Her response? "It's supposed to be that way. If it the needle rises, the engine is getting too hot." Right.... __________________ Since you're, like, the President and stuff, can you, like, set a country on fire, . . . and then, fly over in a helicopter and say, "I am the President of the most powerful nation on earth. You must bow down before me"? Uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh . . . -- Butt-head

02-13-04, 04:39 PM	#2
travis Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: It's my way or the deny way Posts: 3,749	how much are your muffler bearings? mine are worn out.

02-13-04, 05:00 PM	#4
OtakingGX Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 1,726	[quote=BCRICH]So one plug wears the electrode while the other wears the ground. Well he figured if he would switch them around they would start wearing oposite and last longer. QUOTE]How much is a spark plug for the car? Even if rotating the plugs did make them last longer I can't see the cost of the labor being worth it. Or were you expected to rotate them for free?