jeez if you are going to take your car to a shop clean it up a little

[Tiger]

LOL... I knew a girl who was like that... damn fine figure young hottie... and everything in the car was like a tornado ran through your house. Drove me nut.

It is really ironic... they really know how to pamper themselves but don't know hot to keep everything around them clean... Can you picture it? A young hot girl standing on the sidewalk... showing off... and you see a pile of trash all around her as if she was stuck on an island? ROFLOL

[Rus]

oh i generally clean up and if i crud up a car i clean it, but with some of these turds i am going to wash up after i get out of it so i think of it as water conservation

I wasn't really aiming at you in particular (been to your shop BTW, looks better than many of the "fine" establishments in NOLA). Mostly a bit frustrated with the level of service I've been treated to these past couple of weeks. Is it just me or does the level of service in most auto-shops here pale in comparison to other states? Just a week ago I took my baby in to have tires rebalanced (weight flew off, nice work by shop) and ended up with a four hour wait, what still feels like mild vibration at speed, and a scuffed trunk because some dipshit set his tools out on the trunk and dragged them about.

[winfred]

it's amazing i seem to be the only person to be able to balance the tires on my car and squash the vibration, i the past it was when i used someone elses machine, now we have one and a non rim eating tire machine, it pissed me off to no end to pay for some ******* to not balance my tires, it's not hard, i don't get it, as for weights flying off they probably used steel wheel wheel weights, different clip then aluminum wheel wheel weights

Just a week ago I took my baby in to have tires rebalanced (weight flew off, nice work by shop) and ended up with a four hour wait, what still feels like mild vibration at speed, and a scuffed trunk because some dipshit set his tools out on the trunk and dragged them about.

[genphreak]

Great thread Winfred, in the computer world we have equivalent people, they abuse rather than use and wonder why it all goes to ****. They'd probably work it out (I'm trying to be nice) but they spend all their time trying to blame people cause they have no process, no interest and no intention of sorting their **** out... LOL

[Milkboot]

I think i am going to clean my car so winfred dosnt hurt me now.


even if it is 11pm and kind if rainy outside

[Rus]

it's amazing i seem to be the only person to be able to balance the tires on my car and squash the vibration, i the past it was when i used someone elses machine, now we have one and a non rim eating tire machine, it pissed me off to no end to pay for some ******* to not balance my tires, it's not hard, i don't get it, as for weights flying off they probably used steel wheel wheel weights, different clip then aluminum wheel wheel weights

Perhaps you are right about the wrong wheel weight type being used. You also have to take into account that when you do it, you probably put some effort into the balancing process. The average grease monkey likely doesn't give a **** about the quality of the job and thus the customer loses time and money bringing the car back in over and over. Its also very frustrating to not have any nice smooth roads here to feel for vibration. Took me over a week to finally conclude that the car's behavior wasn't due to the road condition but rather the balancing job.

[pundit]

**** no! i don't clean up their goddamn filth, one of my favorites is a trunk absolutely full to the brim of **** when i need to get in there, all of the crap in my way gets roughly thrown in the back seat and left there, maid ain't in my title

Just leave a fresh dog turd on their dash and when they complain say you didn't notice it!

[Boone.Msi]

disgusting

i get to cleaning when theres more than 10 papers stuffed in the holder behind the seat. If you got in my car, it would be no different than getting in it, when it was sold new.

I can see people leaving papers, work supplies, a few athletic things for the evening, but a mobile trashcan is absurd...

[Kalevera]

Dude, I've got you beat -- this regular E46 323/4/5 with a billion miles on it, owned by a short, fat, stinking guy with festering leisons all over his visible body. Guy's a cheap ass, too.

The worst thing about the car is the way it smells. Every surface has a slick of grime on it, not identifiable. In terms of junk and dirt, there's a lot. Old food, newspapers, wrappers, trash, dirt -- all par for the course. Have to clear a space around the pedals to drive the car, don't want to touch a thing without two pairs of gloves.

I have to scrub myself like a rape victim after getting within 5 feet of it.

[ThoreauHD]

I have nothing in my car, but a tied down umbrella in the trunk and insurance/ownership papers in the glove box. I keep it spotless and mechanics tend to like it I've noticed. When they fix **** it makes them feel like they've accomplished something rather than repairing some daft jackass's vomit soaked pube laden shitpile of a choadwagon.

I have had a few mechanics stomp their workboots on the carpeting, but it's a simple matter of cleaning it up and never seeing them again. Some shops have a policy, along with paper to cover the interior, that keeps mechanics from doing damage. Some don't. So if they don't- it's the system baby. Don't go back. Can't fix it.

And Winfred, you're a trip. I wish mechanics talked to customers like you type. Would be more entertaining and truthful.