savage1987
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in the mood to have a mini rage
WHY THE #### ARE SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY SO ####ING INCOMPETENT? IT'S YOUR ####ING ONE JOB, GET IT RIGHT pingpingpingpingS.
Usually use Veales in Midland, but went to Repco today because I had a fair list of **** to buy and they did a Defence discount for me the other day..
So I bought a couple hundred worth of **** at Repco, in among that was an oil filter suit LS1.
I asked for an "oil filter for an LS1"
is it a V8? (are you ####ing serious?... you're fired right there. You don't know what an LS1 is and you work in a parts store.. yeah OK, only in Midland I suppose.)
"yes."
what series is it?
"it's VX, but they should be all the same."
is it supercharged? (.... wtf? this should have rung alarm bells, but I didn't think this guy was that retarded.)
"no"
*finds oil filter, takes money, prints receipt.
also, apparently they don't do a ADF discount here .. even though I was given one no problems on Saturday at the same store.. interesting. I thought Repco was fairly standardised nationwide. should have gone to Veales.
anyway
yep OK, win. Off to get a pile of other ****, deal with other idiot staff here there and everywhere, and finally home to start work.
So it's 8.30 at night and I get around to my oil change.
car up
dump oil
dump filter
new filter on....... wtf? Z154... you ####ing idiot, RepcoMan. This is a V6 filter.
New bottle of HPR15 pumping through a filthy oil filter that just cleaned 3yrs of weather corrosion out of the guts of a motor.... awesome. (Had no choice but to put the old filter back on since I have **** booked on the car first up in the morning)
Same day, Pedders Midland Takes best part of an hour to tell me my rack ends are ####ed, which is what I had already told them I thought the problem was. I didn't need a ####ing suspension check, I should have been more clear on that. They give the usual run down of 1000 things they say are ####ed that are actually most likely fine.
two examples:
steering rack leaks. - really? leaks less than any VN I've ever seen... that is to say, it's dry and silver and might as well be new.
front sway bar links need replacing. - An interesting development. I asked why, they are HD links and are fine.. He says "they are old and worn out".. I said no, actually, the bushes on them are ####ed but the links are a whole 4months old, brand new out of a box.. checked them out tonight.. no wear on them.
Is it so hard to find people who are good at what they do and won't #### you around in this industry? Today was the straw that broke the camel's back for me, after the epic saga with buying a manifold from over east that never arrived, my cam/lifters/springs falling through from the states, a massive head#### of the CAE conversion parts.. the list goes on.
/super pointless rant
Of course, at the other end of the spectrum are the people you meet who do the right thing all the ####ing time.
examples I dealt with today
Mitch @ WAPerf
Chris @ Ian Diffen Midland
Craig, Clive, Steve @ Tony's Auto Wreckers
random super helpful guy @ Jaycar, Midland.
Massive ####ing thumbs up for those guys and everyone else out there like them. You are like a ####ing beacon of awesome in an industry that seems to be becoming increasingly clogged up with the scum of the earth.
WHY THE #### ARE SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY SO ####ING INCOMPETENT? IT'S YOUR ####ING ONE JOB, GET IT RIGHT pingpingpingpingS.
Usually use Veales in Midland, but went to Repco today because I had a fair list of **** to buy and they did a Defence discount for me the other day..
So I bought a couple hundred worth of **** at Repco, in among that was an oil filter suit LS1.
I asked for an "oil filter for an LS1"
is it a V8? (are you ####ing serious?... you're fired right there. You don't know what an LS1 is and you work in a parts store.. yeah OK, only in Midland I suppose.)
"yes."
what series is it?
"it's VX, but they should be all the same."
is it supercharged? (.... wtf? this should have rung alarm bells, but I didn't think this guy was that retarded.)
"no"
*finds oil filter, takes money, prints receipt.
also, apparently they don't do a ADF discount here .. even though I was given one no problems on Saturday at the same store.. interesting. I thought Repco was fairly standardised nationwide. should have gone to Veales.
anyway
yep OK, win. Off to get a pile of other ****, deal with other idiot staff here there and everywhere, and finally home to start work.
So it's 8.30 at night and I get around to my oil change.
car up
dump oil
dump filter
new filter on....... wtf? Z154... you ####ing idiot, RepcoMan. This is a V6 filter.
New bottle of HPR15 pumping through a filthy oil filter that just cleaned 3yrs of weather corrosion out of the guts of a motor.... awesome. (Had no choice but to put the old filter back on since I have **** booked on the car first up in the morning)
Same day, Pedders Midland Takes best part of an hour to tell me my rack ends are ####ed, which is what I had already told them I thought the problem was. I didn't need a ####ing suspension check, I should have been more clear on that. They give the usual run down of 1000 things they say are ####ed that are actually most likely fine.
two examples:
steering rack leaks. - really? leaks less than any VN I've ever seen... that is to say, it's dry and silver and might as well be new.
front sway bar links need replacing. - An interesting development. I asked why, they are HD links and are fine.. He says "they are old and worn out".. I said no, actually, the bushes on them are ####ed but the links are a whole 4months old, brand new out of a box.. checked them out tonight.. no wear on them.
Is it so hard to find people who are good at what they do and won't #### you around in this industry? Today was the straw that broke the camel's back for me, after the epic saga with buying a manifold from over east that never arrived, my cam/lifters/springs falling through from the states, a massive head#### of the CAE conversion parts.. the list goes on.
/super pointless rant
Of course, at the other end of the spectrum are the people you meet who do the right thing all the ####ing time.
examples I dealt with today
Mitch @ WAPerf
Chris @ Ian Diffen Midland
Craig, Clive, Steve @ Tony's Auto Wreckers
random super helpful guy @ Jaycar, Midland.
Massive ####ing thumbs up for those guys and everyone else out there like them. You are like a ####ing beacon of awesome in an industry that seems to be becoming increasingly clogged up with the scum of the earth.