Who knew?

[beatlesfan]

Damn...reminds me to check MY lug butts XD

HAHA! I didn't even notice. I, of course, meant lug nuts. Always check your lug butts too, don't want those falling off.

[Knight92]

Reminds me of a time I picked up my car after dropping it off for a brake job, and when I hit the brakes nothing happened thankfully it was a slow intersection and I did not run into anyone. I bled my own brakes right there in the intersection just pumping them a few times. Mistakes are made by everyone pros or rookies

[Bawanna]

Funny my brother in law liked the local Firestone dealer and we were at their house one time when he'd left his car for new tires. Asked me to take him down to pick it up so I did. I just knew that somehow they had screwed up but he wasn't having any of it.

While he was paying I went out and looked at the car. It had one odd size tire out of 4 put on incorrectly. They had to pull it back in after closing and swap it out.

Caca happens.

[tv_racin_fan]

Back when the Taurus was a new car I got one for my wife, 5 speed wagon.

Anyhooo the dern thing had a leak, drivers side door right about where the electric window switches are. So she takes it in for service and they have to keep it a couple days. On the second trip I have more or less figured out the issue and when I go to pick it up I have a nice discussion with the service manager. I showed him the issue (looked to me like they picked it up in the factory with straps thru the door frame and bent the "gutter") but he tells me I am wrong. That they sprayed it with a water hose and it didn't leak. He aint got much to say when I tell him they didn't drive it around in the rain at highway speed and their water hose don't equal that pressure. I proceeded to tell him I wont ever deal with them again and not only will I not ever do so but everyone I know and a whole bunch of people I meet are going to hear just how incompetent they are as a dealership.

[socialwork911]

You can "what if" any situation. What if Winchester loads a round too hot and my gun blows up and I lose a hand? Granted, they have more lawyers than I do, but really the chances of me screwing up a simple fluid change are pretty small. I'm willing to take that risk in order to help a friend. The brakes, however, are a bit different. I didn't really think about it, but his life really does ride on those. Not so much the oil and trans fluid. "What if" you're helping an old lady across the street and she gets nailed by a car? Is that your fault? If you go through life never helping anyone with anything for fear of being sued, you'll be pretty bitter and lonely the whole time.

a hot load and my hand blows off....i may never shoot again...at least right handed ...ok left handed....maybe go back to shooting harsh words..yea right....gotta live and worry about the "what ifs"...I'd never get out of bed..maybe there's something to it...beatlesfan, guess it's just helterskelter(love that song)

[getsome]

Wife's mini van needed tires in a few thousand miles so while in a Pep-Boys one day I noticed a sale but I didn't have enough money at the time for 4 so I bought 2 and figured when it came time to replace them I would pick up 2 more...

Took it in on a Saturday later on with the 2 new tires in the back and went to the counter and told the guy they were in the back of the van and to install them along with 2 new ones...He wrote on the ticket, customer provided 2 tires in rear of van...

Went back to pick it up with the 4 new tires on the ground and paid the bill and they had everything right and only charged me for the 2 new ones and I thought they had put on the ones I had in the back but when I got in I saw the tires I brought in still in the back...

Now I sat there with an angel on one shoulder saying go back and return the tires and the devil on the other shoulder saying get the heck out of here before they figure it out and you will have 2 free tires...Well the angel won out and I rolled the 2 tires back in and tried to explain to the guy what happened but he just couldn't understand what I was talking about......Had to get the store manager, the service manager and the tire tech all together and they still couldn't figure it out...They thought I wanted a refund and I just couldn't get them to understand that they had screwed up!!!...I finally got them to take them back but they were going back and forth about how were they ever going to reinventory them and get the records straight...

I almost wish now I had just listened to the devil...I don't see how some idiots stay in business anymore....What a joke!!!

[jocko]

yup u shouldhave listenedto the devil. U no doubt totally screwed up thier bokkeeping systemwith ur honesty. Ur to be commended but tey weren't prepaired for what u did either. I am sure u felt good but I bet those guys wished u had nefver came back in with those two tires either..

[Popeye]

I remember giving some serious thought about doing motorcycle repair work a few years back. I did a few jobs for some bikers but learned people want things for nothing and want to blame you for everything under the sun for pre existing problems like nicks and dents in the paint and chrome they had with there bikes. I was doing it to fill in some time and make a few bucks. I certainly wasn't doing it to get rich. I was charging less than half of what the dealers were charging and still guys wanted to ***** and moan. I could just imagine if one of them would have locked up there brakes and went down. Unfortunately the biker brotherhood is more words than anything else. Today I'll show a guy how to fix things on there bikes or help another rider out if I can, but I'm not spinning any more wrenches on bikes that I do not own. It's just not worth it.

[jocko]

u gotta pick ur customers in anything u do and if ur gonna do business for money u best have some shop liability insurance. I agree with you on some bike repairs but I have seen it in the auto industry to. My dealers use dto do a comploete walk arond and make notiations on customers bikes and you signed it before he even touched it. burn him once your fault, burn him twice his fault. My Porsche dealer has done the same thing when service was required. IT IS CALLED TODAY CYA..

I will help any biker person I can to my abilities and that includes brakes , but I don't advertise for work either. Why chance it. I am pretty good at sending them to good techs that can do the work effiently. I am getting to fokking old to be crwaling around on OTHER peoples bikes. Two of my own is enough..

[Bawanna]

Never had much use for brakes myself. I don't gots to stop, I gots to go..............

[muggsy]

for me, I would hate to think one incident involving some one helping out with a brake job and ending up in lititagation, that it should end all good deeds. anyone can sue, collecting and winning is a different thing. Now if one knows jack sh!t about doing a repair then we are not talking apples and apples either, but again to cite maybe one or two incidents and then the millions of peole who have helped with a brake job, or any good neighbor deed, makes no sense to me.

Hell one could sue kahr for sumptin if they get some silly ass lawyer to takie the case, The publicity might make it seem like kahr did a bad thing etc, but again suing and winning is two different endings. ust my two cents.

No good deed ever goes unpunished. I've been screwed by everyone that I've ever helped. Hasn't stopped me from doing the right thing though. I'm a masochist.

[O'Dell]

Is any one else surprised the Jocko spelled masochist correctly?

[Bawanna]

That weren't Jocko, that were Muggsy but it was a good thought.

[O'Dell]

That weren't Jocko, that were Muggsy but it was a good thought.

So it was - my bad. I thought that Jocko might have broken down and bought a dictionary. That brings up another thought. If you can't spell a word, how do you look it up in a dictionary to determine the spelling. Another of life's conundrums.

[Bawanna]

Cooonnunnndrum, lets see codgers, cold, communist, compact, nope too far, controller, aww there it is....




Heck yeah right on dude.