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Posted: 6/30/2008 8:36:33 PM EDT
All my brothers of the wrench, be you independent techs, dealer guys, owner/operators, how's things going? Whatcha been up to?
The work load in my hood has fallen off drastically. It should be the busiest time of the year, with several cars left over from the day before, but we've been running out of work at around 10-11 AM for the past month or so. Things are looking pretty ugly...and management hired two more technicians, when we don't have the work load to support what we've got. Fortunately at least, with the weather, A/C work has been fairly consistent. I ain't been doing great, but I've been holding my own...barely. |
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Posted: 7/1/2017 9:45:48 AM EDT
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Ast tool has a bad ass wiring holder. It's expensive though.
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Posted: 7/1/2017 2:49:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By confused89:
Awesome. Work won't let us bring personal vehicles in and work on them after hours but they will let us take the tools home and work on them there. All about insurance I guess. personally, i would bounce from a place like that. |
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Posted: 7/1/2017 5:31:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Keekleberrys:
Mickey mouse bullshit excuse. have them write up an RO, then void it when you are done. boom "insurance issue" avoided. personally, i would bounce from a place like that. |
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Posted: 7/1/2017 6:57:30 PM EDT
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Shop Forman "you got a ticket on that?"
Didn't catch you having one on your truck the other night. |
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Posted: 7/1/2017 7:09:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jeep450:
Shop Forman "you got a ticket on that?" Didn't catch you having one on your truck the other night. 
it would take them a year to find an equal replacement. |
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Posted: 7/2/2017 11:47:41 AM EDT
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My tech has a key to the shop. She can come use the lifts anytime after hours or if it is totally dead during working hours. Only thing I say is don't crush yourself over the weekend. I do NOT want to come in to a bloody mess.
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Posted: 7/2/2017 4:36:13 PM EDT
[Last Edit: confused89]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Keekleberrys:
Mickey mouse bullshit excuse. have them write up an RO, then void it when you are done. boom "insurance issue" avoided. personally, i would bounce from a place like that. |
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Posted: 7/6/2017 8:15:18 PM EDT
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I guess the drive shaft needed balancing.
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Posted: 7/7/2017 8:44:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By m35ben:
I guess the drive shaft needed balancing. http://i.imgur.com/str5S3B.jpg |
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Posted: 7/7/2017 9:38:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Coronado:
But was it pretty close to balanced? |
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Posted: 7/7/2017 11:24:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By confused89:
AC machine, is it ok to lay on its side for transport? I know a refrigerator you are not suppose to. But yeah, it's not normally an issue as long as you don't plug it in immediately after bringing it back upright. |
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Posted: 7/7/2017 8:33:45 PM EDT
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We have been busier than ever and with a ton of people out on vacation. I only worked Thursday and Friday but oh man it was nuts. Fifty plus appointments with thirty walk in waiters and only one alignment guy, each team down 2-3 guys and my trainee had to be on sprinters because they were swamped too.
I focused on waiters. I did all i could myself. Then initially we had 20 cars to get cpo certified and they got out on the back burner. Today they had to get done so they could be available for sale Saturday. This plus 20 or so loaner cars were getting turned over in the fleet so they needed gps tracker swaps. We got started on those by the end of the day. We got all the customer care done and most of the cpo cars too. |
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Posted: 7/8/2017 6:03:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By saturnstyl:
We have been busier than ever and with a ton of people out on vacation. I only worked Thursday and Friday but oh man it was nuts. Fifty plus appointments with thirty walk in waiters and only one alignment guy, each team down 2-3 guys and my trainee had to be on sprinters because they were swamped too. I focused on waiters. I did all i could myself. Then initially we had 20 cars to get cpo certified and they got out on the back burner. Today they had to get done so they could be available for sale Saturday. This plus 20 or so loaner cars were getting turned over in the fleet so they needed gps tracker swaps. We got started on those by the end of the day. We got all the customer care done and most of the cpo cars too. We actually had a 2017 Santa Fe stolen off the lot last year. Salesman had left a key in it for detail (inside the fence). Apparently these guys had come around several nights in a row and just methodically went through cars stealing stuff. They started the Santa Fe, popped the lower attachments off the chainlink fence and then drove it under. Once we realized it was gone, we contacted Bluelink and they worked with the cops to track the car down. Trunk was full of stolen stuff, including tons of guns when they found them apparently. Does Mercedes have a system like that? |
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Posted: 7/8/2017 9:21:07 PM EDT
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Yes but it requires a police report and won't do a starter lockout. They don't give tracking info to anyone but leo. This way we can always know where our cars are. They are not allowed to leave the state.
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Posted: 7/10/2017 2:56:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/10/2017 7:09:31 PM EDT
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I used to have good insurance. Before Obamacare.
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Posted: 7/11/2017 5:29:05 AM EDT
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Still better than ours. We actually held out for quite a while before our rates and deductibles went up. I think our deductible was less than $2000 until this past year. Went up to $6800 individual and $13000 for family. Monthly rate went up at the same time. Thanks Obama.
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Posted: 7/11/2017 6:48:58 PM EDT
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The takata airbag vehicles are being released for sale "as is". Takata is bankrupt. We have only received a handful of replacement parts and we have cars that have sat for 500+ days. They cannot be sold as cpo. Only as is used cars. So we have a ton of inventory to get reconditioned for sale now.
Jd power is visiting tomorrow. I have a gle with an antenna that got ripped off on a garage door. It's attached with windshield glue. Since the roof is now slightly bent it won't seal. I've taped up the roof and the antenna and using a gloved finger to pack glue in to the seam. It doesn't look factory fresh but if it stops leaking I'll have to let it go with the explanation of it being that way because it will not sit perfectly flat anymore. |
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Posted: 7/12/2017 7:39:32 PM EDT
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Good day today, had a used car dealer give me a case of beer and a farmer gave me a watermelon.
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Posted: 7/12/2017 8:48:25 PM EDT
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Evaporator in a Buick Lucerne. Not that big of deal. Did have to take the case all the way out and split it though.
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Posted: 7/12/2017 9:49:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By saturnstyl:
I have a gle with an antenna that got ripped off on a garage door. It's attached with windshield glue. Since the roof is now slightly bent it won't seal. I've taped up the roof and the antenna and using a gloved finger to pack glue in to the seam. It doesn't look factory fresh but if it stops leaking I'll have to let it go with the explanation of it being that way because it will not sit perfectly flat anymore. |
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Posted: 7/13/2017 8:44:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/14/2017 7:10:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jeep450:
Crackhead deal $300 for all of it. 1/4" wobbles. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/99144/IMG-7912-253278.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/99144/IMG-7913-253279.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/99144/IMG-7914-253281.JPG |
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Posted: 7/14/2017 7:13:59 PM EDT
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Slamming 10mm bolts in with Milwaukee fuel 3\8 impact. Speed clip explodes. Bolt fails to fully thread. I wasn't thinking. I used my index finger to hold the speed clip remnants. It spun. I ended up using a pair of diagonal cutters to remove the skin dangling from my finger. The whole wide of the first knuckle laid bare to the meat.
I wrap it with electric tape and proceed to not be a little bitch. Later on it is throbbing and shooting pain up my arm. I grab first aid stuff and go to work. Clean wound and bandage it. i ask other team Leader To help cut medical Tape. HE sliced My Middle Knuckle Open WITH A razor. |
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Posted: 7/14/2017 9:06:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By saturnstyl:
Slamming 10mm bolts in with Milwaukee fuel 3\8 impact. Speed clip explodes. Bolt fails to fully thread. I wasn't thinking. I used my index finger to hold the speed clip remnants. It spun. I ended up using a pair of diagonal cutters to remove the skin dangling from my finger. The whole wide of the first knuckle laid bare to the meat. I wrap it with electric tape and proceed to not be a little bitch. Later on it is throbbing and shooting pain up my arm. I grab first aid stuff and go to work. Clean wound and bandage it. i ask other team Leader To help cut medical Tape. HE sliced My Middle Knuckle Open WITH A razor. |
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Posted: 7/16/2017 5:39:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Keekleberrys]
[#26]
Snappy guy finally got me. Been working on me for 3 years. The other day he said he would put together a quote on a KRL1022, because I mentioned at one point that if I ever bought a new box to replace my shitty 44" HF special that it would be a used one of those because I like the height. In my mind I was like ya right, I'm sure he'll come back and just knock like 1g off. It ended up being like 60% off w/ trade in. All the used ones worth buying I'd been seeing on craigslist were asking about that or even more(granted they usually have hutches).
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Posted: 7/17/2017 10:31:36 AM EDT
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He must have had a deal on that box. Good deal for you either way.
I work with a guy that went through a shop fire. He has a snap on epic box with power drawer. $12k list. He bought it for $6800 when he got it. He got a insurance check from the damage and tried to buy a new box. Snap on guy hit him for full list and wouldn't budge. No explanation on why he may have got a deal on the original one. Nothing. The guy won't buy snap on anymore. |
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Posted: 7/17/2017 8:45:34 PM EDT
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Time to grease the wheels on the box and call a rollback. Finally got hired at a shop up the street ive been talking to for a while. Didnt think anything would come out of it, but they shopped around and found out how sad the current crop of techs is. Glad to be out of the shithole im in now, but they served their purpose, i needed a job christmas week.. itll be nice to go back to being able to pay all my bills again.
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Posted: 7/17/2017 8:59:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/17/2017 9:34:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Keekleberrys]
[#30]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jeep450:
He must have had a deal on that box. Good deal for you either way. I work with a guy that went through a shop fire. He has a snap on epic box with power drawer. $12k list. He bought it for $6800 when he got it. He got a insurance check from the damage and tried to buy a new box. Snap on guy hit him for full list and wouldn't budge. No explanation on why he may have got a deal on the original one. Nothing. The guy won't buy snap on anymore. |
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Posted: 7/18/2017 3:51:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By EFB16ACRX:
Time to grease the wheels on the box and call a rollback. Finally got hired at a shop up the street ive been talking to for a while. Didnt think anything would come out of it, but they shopped around and found out how sad the current crop of techs is. Glad to be out of the shithole im in now, but they served their purpose, i needed a job christmas week.. itll be nice to go back to being able to pay all my bills again. |
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Posted: 7/21/2017 7:16:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/21/2017 7:39:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jeep450:
Video surveillance of the chevy dealer that burned in Michigan Facebook link |
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Posted: 7/21/2017 11:59:43 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Keekleberrys]
[#34]
the ford dealership in bellevue burned down 2 years ago in the middle of the night.
they ended up buying everyone all new tools and boxes. their entire key board was lost for every vehicle in the parking lot, lol . many of the vehicles near the building were total losses as well. |
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Posted: 7/22/2017 2:59:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By m35ben:
Wow, do you know if anything else burnt? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By m35ben:
Originally Posted By jeep450:
Video surveillance of the chevy dealer that burned in Michigan Facebook link |
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Posted: 7/22/2017 5:20:48 PM EDT
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Thought you guys might enjoy this:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-maintenance/g10340361/car-mechanic-nightmare-stories/ |
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Posted: 7/22/2017 5:29:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BozemanMT:
Thought you guys might enjoy this: http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-maintenance/g10340361/car-mechanic-nightmare-stories/ 
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Posted: 7/22/2017 6:25:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: olivers_AR]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tmleadr03:
Does this pic stress anyone else out? https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/17/29/480x722/screen-shot-2017-07-20-at-23804-pm.png?resize=480:* Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tmleadr03:
Originally Posted By BozemanMT:
Thought you guys might enjoy this: http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-maintenance/g10340361/car-mechanic-nightmare-stories/ https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/17/29/480x722/screen-shot-2017-07-20-at-23804-pm.png?resize=480:* |
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Posted: 7/22/2017 7:06:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By olivers_AR:
Harbor Freight jack and no jackstands, those jacks as a PoS on good days. Formula to be cut in half or head taken out. |
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Posted: 7/22/2017 8:08:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jeep450:
Not 100% sure but I think the entire service department burned 30 customer cars and 30 to 40 dealer owned cars plus all the technicians tools. |
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Posted: 7/22/2017 11:38:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tmleadr03:
Does this pic stress anyone else out? https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/17/29/480x722/screen-shot-2017-07-20-at-23804-pm.png?resize=480:* Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tmleadr03:
Originally Posted By BozemanMT:
Thought you guys might enjoy this: http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-maintenance/g10340361/car-mechanic-nightmare-stories/ https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/17/29/480x722/screen-shot-2017-07-20-at-23804-pm.png?resize=480:* 
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Posted: 7/23/2017 12:07:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By not_sure:
Jack stands are really expensive.
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Posted: 7/23/2017 2:38:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Keekleberrys:
theres a jackstand on the pinch right behind where he's working. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Keekleberrys:
Originally Posted By not_sure:
Jack stands are really expensive. 
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Posted: 7/23/2017 9:01:23 PM EDT
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A guy I'm friends with on Facebook that lives close to the dealerships posted this.
Heard that the dealership outright paid all of the techs for their tools and are paying them their average weekly pay until they are back to work. They said the dealership will sort it out with insurance later. |
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Posted: 7/24/2017 7:19:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jeep450:
A guy I'm friends with on Facebook that lives close to the dealerships posted this. Heard that the dealership outright paid all of the techs for their tools and are paying them their average weekly pay until they are back to work. They said the dealership will sort it out with insurance later. |
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Posted: 7/25/2017 6:13:56 AM EDT
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Had a coworker work on his car once without a jackstand. The car fell on him and killed him so yes, multiple jack stands are used every time now.
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Posted: 7/29/2017 5:44:14 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Keekleberrys]
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Still can't believe I caved. snappy dropped her off. was slightly bummed there was no scratches on the back  . lol
its a very nice box. compared to my old box the pictures don't really do it any justice. I know its not some huge monster epiq. but for a 1 manufacturer person I doubt I will outgrow it at least not for quite sometime. I was already doing everything under the sun out of that 44 incher harbor freight special. if you spot the bobblehead you gain +1 to wrenching. |
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Posted: 7/30/2017 2:57:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Keekleberrys:
http://i.imgur.com/SYP9rff.jpg Still can't believe I caved. snappy dropped her off. was slightly bummed there was no scratches on the back . lol
its a very nice box. compared to my old box the pictures don't really do it any justice. I know its not some huge monster epiq. but for a 1 manufacturer person I doubt I will outgrow it at least not for quite sometime. I was already doing everything under the sun out of that 44 incher harbor freight special. if you spot the bobblehead you gain +1 to wrenching. |
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Posted: 7/30/2017 3:07:56 PM EDT
[Last Edit: AgeOne]
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By saturnstyl:
I used to have good insurance. Before Obamacare. really fucking good. for like $165 a month. now over $300, and they kicked back a claim from 2 years ago for cauterizing a bloody nose, telling me I needed to have the deviated septum fixed but that it will like also make the bridge of my nose collapse down due to the extent of the deviation (i'm obviously not going to do that, I'm ugly enough as it is). insurance was supposed to cover everything, yet they claim "Adjustment error with posting" and paid nothing. Just got a 2yo bill for that at $891 dollars. are you fucking kidding me? the cauterizing only lasted about 3 months anyway... |
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Posted: 7/30/2017 3:19:16 PM EDT
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Anyone have experience with the HemaCool fridges? Trying to trouble shoot this with limited info.
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