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mafoose posted:My old postman was a lazy gently caress. Everytime he left a "we missed you" note, someone was home. Saturday my new brakes for the MS6 were due to arrive. I rescheduled my whole morning so I could be there to receive them. I'm sitting patiently on my couch waiting for the knock for 3 loving hours. FInally I had to go to work, trotted down the stairs and on a lark check the box to find the "Sorry we missed you" slip. Fucker didn't even try to carry the box upstairs. And just now he put a loving reminder slip in there about it. Because the loving PO is open on Sunday. I'm all worked up over this because I'd set yesterday aside to install those new brakes and today I'm waiting for the Civic exhaust which was going to be my night project. Now I'm out an entire day of car time because he's fat and lazy.
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Rhyno posted:loving bastard Postman didn't bring me my package even though I left the "redeliver" slip in the box on Friday. I'm getting fed up with his fatass. mafoose posted:My old postman was a lazy gently caress. Everytime he left a "we missed you" note, someone was home.
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Jun 2, 2014 18:19
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Rhyno posted:loving bastard Postman didn't bring me my package even though I left the "redeliver" slip in the box on Friday. I'm getting fed up with his fatass. Call the post office and tell them. Seriously.
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Jun 2, 2014 19:16
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kastein posted:Call the post office and tell them. Seriously. I have to go and pick up my original package (if UPS would ever get here) and I'll file a complaint when I get there.
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Jun 2, 2014 19:32
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kastein posted:Call the post office and tell them. Seriously. I did this when they lost my dash cam. I was told five different times that it would be delivered "tomorrow", the package has been scanned as delivered seven times, and it's still yet to make it to my mailbox or the apartment office where larger packages end up. I tried to use the online thing to report a lost or stolen package and it said my taking number was ineligible to report as lost or stolen. gently caress USPS, I hope they go out of business forever.
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Jun 2, 2014 19:40
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trying to convince myself about switching to 3.31s. just more money down the drain.
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Jun 2, 2014 20:01
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Holy poo poo. So I went and grabbed the box and asked if I could file a complaint. The woman gave me the form and tells me "Just FYI, if you fill that out you'll probably never get any mail again. That's just how it is." Your United States Postal Service ladies and gentlemen.
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Jun 2, 2014 20:24
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Pro Tip: You can write whatever the gently caress you want on USPS slips and they'll probably be down to oblige after they fail the first delivery attempt. My delivery guy will open my gate and drop things like tires and poo poo on my back porch for me. No complaints here.
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Jun 2, 2014 20:31
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USPS owns, gently caress the haters. (I've only gotten mad once and it was amazons fault for not making sla or whatever)
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Jun 2, 2014 20:40
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Yeah, can't say I've ever had a problem with my post office that was actually their fault. Once again, Indiana proves to be full of assholes.
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Jun 2, 2014 20:43
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Why did I write SLA for "guaranteed delivery date"? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Jun 2, 2014 20:44
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I've left 6 or 7 notes over the last year, it's the postman who's just too lazy to walk up a single flight of stairs.
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Jun 2, 2014 20:47
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Rhyno posted:I've left 6 or 7 notes over the last year, it's the postman who's just too lazy to walk up a single flight of stairs. Do you live in an apartment or is he too lazy to even carry it up there and leave it? I'm sure it's a combination of laziness and fear of being sued or something when they decide to just leave your new TV or laptop or something on the porch in plain sight.
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Jun 2, 2014 21:08
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Baller Witness Bro posted:Do you live in an apartment or is he too lazy to even carry it up there and leave it? I'm sure it's a combination of laziness and fear of being sued or something when they decide to just leave your new TV or laptop or something on the porch in plain sight. He didn't even come and knock. Not on Saturday, not on today. Edit: here's a stupid question. Looks like i'm getting dicked on the rotors & pads combo I bought so I'm just returning everything and going elsewhere. So here's the dumb part, how many rear pads usually come to a box? All the listings for front pads clearly say "FOUR PADS" but none of the listings for rears say 4, and most just have two pictures by the box. Help?
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Jun 2, 2014 21:19
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I've never heard of being able to buy pads for a single wheel, I'd imagine it's a full axle's worth, ie 4 pads. Unless something's really weird on your vehicle (miata? i forget what all's in your stable)
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Jun 2, 2014 21:25
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In doing research last time I needed brake pads I said gently caress it and bought from Advance. Rock Auto's stupid shipping policies pissed me off enough that it wasn't worth it. I think it was like $8-9 shipping for some $10 a set brake pads or something making them equivalent to AA prices and I could just go 2 blocks to the store and have them in hand within the hour. On larger parts it seems to work out more favorably but it really irks me that every single item is shipped from someone new and for relatively expensive prices. Amazon Prime has completely ruined ordering from most websites these days.
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Jun 2, 2014 21:32
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Baller Witness Bro posted:Amazon Prime has completely ruined ordering from most websites these days. Yeah, I mostly just use Rock Auto for part number checking these days, most of the time my orders are small and the shipping is outrageous. Last time I bought car parts Amazon's prices beat Rock Auto by over $100 once I factored in shipping costs.
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Jun 2, 2014 21:37
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Fucknag posted:I've never heard of being able to buy pads for a single wheel, I'd imagine it's a full axle's worth, ie 4 pads. Unless something's really weird on your vehicle (miata? i forget what all's in your stable) Yeah, every box of pads / shoes I've ever bought has been an axle set.
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Jun 2, 2014 21:44
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I just thought it was odd. I've also never done my own rear brakes before which why I asked. So I bought a 4 corner rotor and pad deal from Protege Garage. $300 for everything. My order came in and has been altered being just rotors. The listing has also been altered to being just rotors now (and $100 more). Dude is insisting it was never a combo. I'm inclined to just return the rotors and go elsewhere right now unless he comes through on the pads. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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Jun 2, 2014 21:46
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Shampoo posted:Can't get an IT manager job without IT management experience. Can't get IT management experience without being an IT Manager. My wife is having the same problem Re: her recently completed Paralegal Associates of Applied Science. Despite a Paralegal Associates and 10-15 years experience as an Administrative Assistant/Office Manager, if she wants to do paralegal stuff, she;s going to have to take a step back and start as an office assistant of legal office receptionist. And leave an office admin job for a small drywall and paint company that's actually pretty good in terms of job security and working environment. We both want her to eventually make more money, but she's pretty happy with her current job. I don't really want her to leave a job that's working for her so well(they're a family owned business, great folks, small office, no politics), but: Student Loans. And she does want to move into something a little more rewarding/challenging. Also, thank you May thread for new musical choices. edit: sonofabitch - Pandora doesn't have Laserhawk in their database! Darchangel fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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Jun 2, 2014 22:04
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Rhyno posted:I just thought it was odd. I've also never done my own rear brakes before which why I asked. I've never seen pads sold in anything but a complete set per axle. On the pads/rotor combo don't you have an email with your original order or something? Either way that's BS if there was a deal and now they aren't honoring it, return the stuff and don't buy from them again.
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So some news about Squeak. We took him to the regular vet today. They saw the bloodwork from the emergency vet and agreed he was in bad shape, but they want to try to hospitalize him for a few days. I agreed. Talked to them a little while ago - he's definitely feeling a little better, he's making one hell of a racket and generally making life hell for their techs. 
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Jun 2, 2014 22:44
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NitroSpazzz posted:I've never seen pads sold in anything but a complete set per axle. On the pads/rotor combo don't you have an email with your original order or something? Either way that's BS if there was a deal and now they aren't honoring it, return the stuff and don't buy from them again. I didn't get an invoice until it shipped at which point it was altered. So I have no proof of the original deal at this point.
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Jun 2, 2014 22:53
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People who are complaining about ROCKAUTO shipping: have you noticed that it'll tell you what warehouses stuff is shipping from? once you add items to your cart it'll show little truck icons next to parts in the catalog that are coming from the same warehouse. More than one warehouse in the cart and it'll assign a letter to each warehouse so you can optimize to the max! Takes a little work but ends up saving mad $$.
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Jun 2, 2014 23:12
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Is there a way to access older, cached versions of a website? Specifically this link http://www.protegegarage.com/1593-product-1593.html The google cache has it from May 23rd, when I was linked to that on FB is was a rotor and pad combo on May 19th.
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CountOfNowhere posted:People who are complaining about ROCKAUTO shipping: have you noticed that it'll tell you what warehouses stuff is shipping from? once you add items to your cart it'll show little truck icons next to parts in the catalog that are coming from the same warehouse. More than one warehouse in the cart and it'll assign a letter to each warehouse so you can optimize to the max! Takes a little work but ends up saving mad $$. I've played the Rockauto shipping game plenty - I've had two items in my cart, both from one warehouse; when I add a third item, suddenly each item is coming from a different warehouse. Remove that third item and it's back to 1 warehouse. There's something really screwy with their ordering; it's enough that I mostly use them to look up part numbers and buy from Amazon instead, unless Rockauto is significantly cheaper.
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some texas redneck posted:I've played the Rockauto shipping game plenty - I've had two items in my cart, both from one warehouse; when I add a third item, suddenly each item is coming from a different warehouse. Remove that third item and it's back to 1 warehouse. Exactly. I love rockauto but something is rotten in the state of Denmark. I've had 4-5 items coming from one warehouse, then I add one more item and there are suddenly 3-4 warehouses involved. On the other hand, summit racing will give me free shipping if the order is over $100, so I've been known to eliminate warehouses from my rockauto order by moving enough stuff to my summit order that I hit $100. Summit charges more for the parts, usually, but I come out ahead... and I use the comment box on rockauto to let them know that. No response yet. I've jokingly said before that I dare to order a fifth item from RockAuto and suddenly my five items are shipping from 6 warehouses, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened. tl;dr: NINE WAREHOUSES ON MY ORDER?  e: Rhyno, try archive.org. kastein fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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Jun 2, 2014 23:35
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Cat Terrist posted:Well huh. First time 5km run under 30 minutes. Not going to argue with that. Nice. I always seem to just miss out. Either get 30mins 20 secs or 31 mins
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Interesting - I haven't had that happen before. My orders are usually pretty small, tho - most everything I get comes from worldpac, ROCKAUTO is just for the stuff they sell that's way cheaper than anywhere else.
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Jun 3, 2014 00:35
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I haven't really had the warehouse problem with rock auto before, however it seems like everytime I order Moog parts, I get two different versions of the part. Either version will work, but usually one is beefier and has grease zerks. I don't get it....
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I love my truck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOQ1N6S-0Es
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I'm looking for brake rotors that don't suck, won't rust like a motherfucker, and won't cost me a hundred bucks a rotor. Any of you fine gentlemen have any suggestions? Are Raybestos worth a drat anymore? For a 2000 camaro by the way.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:I'm looking for brake rotors that don't suck, won't rust like a motherfucker, and won't cost me a hundred bucks a rotor. Any of you fine gentlemen have any suggestions? Are Raybestos worth a drat anymore? For a 2000 camaro by the way. Well, if you don't want rust, you're SOL with any rotors made of iron, aka the vast majority of them. You could get ceramic rotors; those definitely won't be a hundred bucks each.  Honestly, stopping power is mostly in the pads and hydraulics, rotors are just a heat sink. Maybe get slotted rotors if you wanna get fancy. Are you having any specific brake issues?
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My AC compressor learned how to make a very deceiving knocking noise today. It's loud as gently caress and sounds like my rods want to come out and play.
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The downside of me accepting that I have to sell my E39 is that I have stopped babying it, and have started hooning the gently caress out of it, and now I don't want to sell it. I wonder how adept i can get at unbolting and rebolting a driveshaft. (It's being sold because I can't figure out a non-trailer way to pull it behind the motorhome).
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I saw a real nice IH Scout today. Painted bright orange. Wish I had a pic.
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SlimManFat posted:My AC compressor learned how to make a very deceiving knocking noise today. It's loud as gently caress and sounds like my rods want to come out and play.
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Jonny 290 posted:The downside of me accepting that I have to sell my E39 is that I have stopped babying it, and have started hooning the gently caress out of it, and now I don't want to sell it. I apologize if this is really naive, since I haven't ever towed a car behind an RV before, but since your car has a manual transmission (I think), what's preventing you from towing it in neutral, on a dolly or flat? I've retrieved a couple manual cars with a tow dolly and did just that without issue. SUSE Creamcheese fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Fucknag posted:Well, if you don't want rust, you're SOL with any rotors made of iron, aka the vast majority of them. You could get ceramic rotors; those definitely won't be a hundred bucks each. No issues. These are for a brand new braking system. Centric has some rotors with painted hats that may stay nice looking for at least a little while. I already have a set of their pads, so hopefully they'll play nicely together. I just want to hear if anyone here has had experience with a particular brand that was just utter crap.
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Cat Terrist posted:Well huh. First time 5km run under 30 minutes. Not going to argue with that. I weigh around 250 pounds, and am obviously not really built for running.. managed a 28 minute 5km when my brother and I were doing a mini competition. Needless to say I was surprised (and exhausted).
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