SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
Because dealers actually guarantee their work and have people who are constantly trained and updated. At a dealer, if your car is still messed up after you get it serviced, you can come straight back and they will correct it for free and apologize too. You pay for what you get.
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pirana6
Go Cougs!
+682|6260|Washington St.
by "guarantee their work" do you mean a warranty? I have that for my alignment. It's 6 months/6 thousand miles. Ill go to a different goodyear next week when i have time and ask the if they can do it because it has issues. If they make me go back to the original I will, it's just nowhere close to where I live.

and no, I don't want some 21 year old just out of mechanic school working on my car. they also use OEM parts and charge $209348/hr because they think they're the only people certified to work on cars and have to do everything by their brand of cars book. most mechanics can fix things with aftermarket parts and don't have to spend hours doing it.

I didn't go to a dealership because I don't want to spend $400 to have an alignment done with lasers when a normal shop can use normal tools for $80. I just didn't think this POS shop was gonna specifically turn the one wheel I said I had changed the control arm on as opposed to doing the actual alignment.
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
was it really only 80
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CC-Marley
Member
+407|6798
That sounds about right. My girlfriend just had her Subaru aligned for $85.
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6687|Riva, MD
Some smaller places do it for less, my local shop does it for $70 but they're such shady fuckers that I wouldn't do it anyway.  I had my alignment on my old car done at NTB for $85, that's probably where I would go again, and I might go soon since my new car seems to have the slightest pull to the left.  Most people I know go to Sears but I've heard bad things about their alignments like what happened at GoodYear to Pirana where they fuck it up and you either have to keep going till they get it right or take the loss and bring it somewhere else.
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,810|6076|eXtreme to the maX
I went to one place were the guy jacked the car up on the gearbox with a hydraulic jack, then worked underneath it without propping it.

It was really cheap.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
pirana6
Go Cougs!
+682|6260|Washington St.

Dilbert_X wrote:

I went to one place were the guy jacked the car up on the gearbox with a hydraulic jack, then worked underneath it without propping it.

It was really cheap.
The worst part about that is, if something goes wrong because of them, you have to prove it was because of them, not just your already shitty car.

Half the reason I do 75% of my car work myself.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
I have a Christmas party for work to go to today. I am being coerced to go. This should be illegal
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pirana6
Go Cougs!
+682|6260|Washington St.
coercion IS illegal
DrunkFace
Germans did 911
+427|6651|Disaster Free Zone
just don't go then.
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6687|Riva, MD
Management at my job gave everybody who didn't go all kinds of grief and guilt-tripping last year about not going, I assume there was a poor turnout.  Do most companies make a big deal about Christmas parties or something?
pirana6
Go Cougs!
+682|6260|Washington St.
companies think what they see on tv is how it should go, or how it goes for other people.

it's not.

christmas parties are generally pretty lame and a waste of time. I never go and have never been told I missed out on anything but food.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
The worst part was that it was on a Wednesday. We had an open bar but had to work the morning after.
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KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6602|949

You guys don't have raffles and prizes and gifts at your company parties?
pirana6
Go Cougs!
+682|6260|Washington St.
we have food and middle-aged people talking about work... when they're not at work. ill pass thanks.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
We had a raffle for a flat screen and some paid vacation last year. Nothing this time. I think the boss blew the budget on the high class Italian restaurant we went to. It was a really nice place but am I supposed to be impressed by that? Might as well been at Chucky Cheese for all I care.
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CC-Marley
Member
+407|6798
Ungrateful Bastard
DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
+794|6654|United States of America
For some reason the Christmas party for my group is happening Monday, which is before several departments go into shutdown, so those of us on off-shifts are getting shafted. I suppose it's fair enough, in that I was able to go to several celebrations for things to which I contributed nothing last year.
Adams_BJ
Russian warship, go fuck yourself
+2,053|6592|Little Bentcock
We had our christmas party yesterday. We had a bbq and beer and jetskis. I don't know what you guys are complaining about.
globefish23
sophisticated slacker
+334|6293|Graz, Austria
Can't complain about my Christmas party.
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That's the old Graz university from 1607, made into a venue with fancy catering.
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

globefish23 wrote:

Can't complain about my Christmas party.

That's the old Graz university from 1607, made into a venue with fancy catering.
So were you sorted into Hufflepuff or Gryffindor?
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
its un
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globefish23
sophisticated slacker
+334|6293|Graz, Austria

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

globefish23 wrote:

Can't complain about my Christmas party.

That's the old Graz university from 1607, made into a venue with fancy catering.
So were you sorted into Hufflepuff or Gryffindor?
Endocrinology
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
I want to join the national guard but can't. I would be a lieutenant. Lt. Macbeth. That would be great.
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DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
+794|6654|United States of America
Why not, exactly?

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