CSB3: Admins Don't Even Change Thread Titles, OP Doesn't Have A MKX Anymore

[sterkrazzy]

New tubafour?

Yea, some fancy new tubafour jack stands.

 

[Saabingti]

Yeah it doesn't look like anything beyond my mechanical abilities, I just don't really have the time or the setup to do it.

 

[Saabingti]

Aston Martin Valour = Ford Mustang + Focus

Go get yourself a mustang and some zhong'd rear louvres and you're like 80% of the way there

 

[Strange Mud]

it's easy to get Mustang parts.

 

[brat_burner]

I can't imagine being a shop owner and turning down suspension work. That's just one of those bread and butter things that you can make easy money on. Bad business IMO

 

[Acadia18]

I can't imagine being a shop owner and turning down suspension work. That's just one of those bread and butter things that you can make easy money on. Bad business IMO

It's like a shop turning down brake jobs. I can't think of a job with a worse price to difficulty/time investment/actual cost ratio

 

[Nineeightyone]

So I ordered the clamp-style adapter from BFI to use the knob I bought for my Jetta on my GTI. I'm thinking that maybe if I go to the dealer and sweet talk them, they'll give me the "revised" shift knob trim (since mine hasn't had that recall yet) -- anyone know if the trim comes with the boot? Then I can simply tie the new boot to the knob and call it a day, rather than screwing around with dismantling my current knob/boot too excessively.

e: nvm, am dumb -- 5G17134563DP is the part number they supply/replace, and it's just the "frame"/trim. So no shift boot, I suppose.

 

[Saabingti]

I can't imagine being a shop owner and turning down suspension work. That's just one of those bread and butter things that you can make easy money on. Bad business IMO

Guy probably took one look at the pile of labeled cardboard boxes in my hatch and was like hell naw aint nobody got time to unbox all that.

My other bit of frustration as I sit here and stew on this is: if the schedule is overbooked to the point where you have to move my appointment out two months/outright cancel it ... I feel like that's not something that just magically happens? I mean the only guy who knows for sure is the owner-operator, maybe the dude who called out this week actually just quit and now he's short 33% of usual staff and needs to try and find someone to hire, but why let me bring the car in and have it sit there for 3 days?

 

[riceburner]

Aston Martin Valour = Ford Mustang + Focus

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Go get yourself a mustang and some zhong'd rear louvres and you're like 80% of the way there

doesnt ford own aston anyway?

 

[riceburner]

I can't imagine being a shop owner and turning down suspension work. That's just one of those bread and butter things that you can make easy money on. Bad business IMO

turn down fo what?

 

[mwoodski]

doesnt ford own aston anyway?

not since 2007

 

[sterkrazzy]

Aston Martin Valour = Ford Mustang + Focus

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Go get yourself a mustang and some zhong'd rear louvres and you're like 80% of the way there

Ferrari just made a SUV that looks like a Toyota. Ferrari Purosangue on the left. Toyota Crown on the right.

 

[khail19]

So I ordered the clamp-style adapter from BFI to use the knob I bought for my Jetta on my GTI. I'm thinking that maybe if I go to the dealer and sweet talk them, they'll give me the "revised" shift knob trim (since mine hasn't had that recall yet) -- anyone know if the trim comes with the boot? Then I can simply tie the new boot to the knob and call it a day, rather than screwing around with dismantling my current knob/boot too excessively.

e: nvm, am dumb -- 5G17134563DP is the part number they supply/replace, and it's just the "frame"/trim. So no shift boot, I suppose.

Correct, they only replace the silver trim. Just had mine done a month ago.

 

[Acadia18]

New tubafour?

Let's just say I won't be jacking from the middle anymore after Sunday...

 

[brat_burner]

Guy probably took one look at the pile of labeled cardboard boxes in my hatch and was like hell naw aint nobody got time to unbox all that.

True... there are some guys that are like this. Or they just want to be a dick because they didn't make all the profits on the parts too.