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Auto parts rant....

kidthatsirishkidthatsirish Member Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
OK if I call one more auto parts store and ask them if they have some Castrol automatic transmission fluid that is mercon lv approved and they ask me who makes the vehicle and if its a car or pickup I'm gonna lose it....either I need to take a chill pill or our county is in serious need of knowledge in our auto parts stores....rant over.[:(!]


I'm gonna have a tall glass of chocolate milk before I call another store....I do not want to be rude on the phone.
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  • asphalt cowboyasphalt cowboy Member Posts: 8,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know your pain irish.
    Had a wet eared pup in a parts store tell me Ford never put Tri-Power on a big block. Waltzed his butt outside and put my hood up "and just what do you think that is?". He immediately spied the mirror image 352 on the front of the block. "It says 352 right there, it's a small block."

    Kid actually had a chance to learn something, but wanted to argue instead.

    Didn't know whether to slap him cross eyed or beat my head on the pavement.
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  • fordsixfordsix Member Posts: 8,554 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    everything runs on a computer program other wise they don't know about anything
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,039 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Once an art, now just like everything else, graduate of SFC Technical Institute, or GED whichever is worse.
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I feel your pain. I try not to ask any questions in an Auto parts store. I look up the part I need online, get the part number, see which store has it, go to the store and ask for part # 1234....., or I go on Rockauto and order it if I don't have to have it right away.


    I have found that windshield wipers cause the most pain. If someone had told me WS wipers would come in a single pack and cost $15-$20 each I would called them crazy, if someone had told me a car would be made that has 2 different sizes of WS wipers I would have called them insane!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Its like a stinking Jap Arisaka rifle selling for over $200..............who would have ever thought it could happen.[:0]
    RLTW

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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The only thing the dummies they hire now know is how to punch the keys on the key board [8]
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  • reload999reload999 Member Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not in an auto parts store, but I once had a discussion about cars with a "younger" fellow who wanted to punch me out for insisting the original Camaro Z28 engine was a 302 cid rather than a 350. You'd have thought I'd called his wife or mother a sister (sister isn't what I wrote here, haha).
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  • sharpshooter039sharpshooter039 Member Posts: 5,897 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I went to Auto Zone this morning to buy Spark Plugs and new wires. I was informed they has 2 different wire sets, 1 was 39.95 the other 46.95..I asked OK whats the difference,,all I got was a blank deer in the headlight look. Finally he answered well one is made by xxy and the other made by yyx,, never could tell me warrenty or any information,,,left and went to parts plus and bought wires
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  • mlincolnmlincoln Member Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Buy stuff off Amazon. Works a lot better.
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,353 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know the combinations are countless now and a computer is a have to have vs the old two foot thick cross reference book that use to lay on top of the counter.
    when I was a kid the local NAPA store the old fellow I would go in tell him what I needed 90% of the time he would just walk back in the shelf's and get it . never looked it up .
    now I would bet most of the employees at a parts store know how to fill the gas and drive to work is there experience with any car or truck
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  • tomh.tomh. Member Posts: 3,847 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I understand your frustration, but really....
    Does it have air conditioning?
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  • slumlord44slumlord44 Member Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a local parts store here in my small town owned by a guy close to my age. Sure makes things easier. Its fun to talk to the young parts guys about my 312 Ford Y Block. Most have no idea that there is such a thing.
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a NADA store close by...yes,they know the parts...
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  • MG1890MG1890 Member Posts: 4,460 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by asphalt cowboy
    I know your pain irish.
    Had a wet eared pup in a parts store tell me Ford never put Tri-Power on a big block. Waltzed his butt outside and put my hood up "and just what do you think that is?". He immediately spied the mirror image 352 on the front of the block. "It says 352 right there, it's a small block."

    Kid actually had a chance to learn something, but wanted to argue instead.

    Didn't know whether to slap him cross eyed or beat my head on the pavement.


    I think he was correct. Ford didn't call them "small block" or "big block".

    Should have said it was for a "FE" series engine.
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