Yeah, this is as emo as it gets for me.

[sp00n]

I hate u-joints, but I hate advanced auto parts even more. I would just like to thank the egghead at advanced autoparts for selling me the WRONG U-JOINT 3 TIMES, and the fine crew of mechanically incompetent hamsters at autozone for letting me look for the part I needed on the shelf myself. Because of Advanced *fruitcage*meintheassautoparts I have wasted my fine labor day under my truck cussing up a storm, and have 3 hours to finish installing the U-joint on the driveshaft tomorrow before I have to use it for work. In my closing statement, I leave you all with this image;

 

Thank you, that is all, please move along. Also do not take my towels.

 

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[CommandoBoy]

Thats why my dad goes to Napa Auto Parts or Shucks Auto Parts.

[Sledge]

 

[Connery]

Eh, slap them.

 

Or sue them.

 

Edit: Down Sledge! Heel boy!

[sp00n]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/1TrueSledge/wtfpreacher.jpg

 

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This little four-way turd:

is what holds your driveshaft onto your transmission/differential on your standard RWD car/truck. Mine broke. I have to replace it.

 

Thank you come again.

[Ghost_Rider]

Erm......DOn't we have a rants thread?

 

Regardless, points for manlyness. There's no way I'd even know where that would fit on a truck or how to tell they'd sold you the wrong one.

[Sledge]

This "transmission/differential." Is this something to do with the petrol-drinking miniature horses that live in car engines?

 

[sp00n]

This "transmission/differential." Is this something to do with the petrol-drinking miniature horses that live in car engines?

 

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(yes, in theory, it does have something to do with the ponies)

[Jordan74]

...I work at advance auto

 

 

 

EDIT: To say this better...I don't work there, and never have

[sp00n]

...I work at advance auto 

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Infidel!

[Foxtrot]

...I work at advance auto 

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I'm sorry.

 

 

To spoon: Sorry dude. Sucks when that stuff happen. I had to have a conversation with the guy for 15 minutes trying get the right freaking brake rotars for my Mom's SAAB 95.

 

Finally after 2 times, I found out, by calling the saab dealership about 4 hours away that they are propriatary still, thus can only get them from SAAB.

 

Could of used that information 6 hours before hand as well as changing the parts in and out 3 times. (Yeah. Rotars on that car are a complete *badgeress* to get on/off, the 2 advanced ones fit on, but when I tried to put the tire on and test the brakes, the brakes would just lock up... She needed the car, so had to put the old ones back on for the day.)

[mower]

sounds like these guys have just employed spotty teenagers instead of mechanics

[Jordan74]

I was just kidding about the working there part. I could try and get a job there to infiltrate and sabotage their work, but that might be borderline against the law.

[sp00n]

Victory is mine! Only took an hour with the right parts

 

Now to get to work..

[Hardcore_Mitsuko]

Are you gonna go back and beat the guy round the head with the offending part?

[Lord Jebus]

Hopefully...

[Ubar]

Is it me right, or do americans suck at owning cars? Over here you dont have to do anything like this to your car ever, you just put petrol and screen wash in the appropriate holes and it drives!

 

Do you all drive ###### cars? Or is it because youre forever tinkering with them they keep breaking down? Or is it their crappy uneconomical engines shaking themselves to peices?

[Vice]

Id say the third option...

 

One of my American friends showed me their work car, some bigass 4x4 with a house on the back type thing..

 

She works in the city ffs.

 

 

We havea few places like that around here, however, I live next to a garage, so when my car needed a new gearbox, we got it put in cheaper than usual.

[Hardcore_Mitsuko]

One of my American friends showed me their work car, some bigass 4x4 with a house on the back type thing..

 

She works in the city ffs.

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That annoys me. My student halls were right neat to this really posh school, and walking to Uni every morning you'd see the little posh kids getting dropped off by their parents. Typically, it'd be a mum driving a huge 4x4, and all that's in it is her and a baby seat in the back. She'd only be dropping off one or two kids as well. When did driving a huge pointless 4x4 become such a status symbol?

[Connery]

It has something to do with 'Minivans suck *albatross*'...

[sp00n]

Is it me right, or do americans suck at owning cars? Over here you dont have to do anything like this to your car ever, you just put petrol and screen wash in the appropriate holes and it drives!

 

Do you all drive ###### cars? Or is it because youre forever tinkering with them they keep breaking down? Or is it their crappy uneconomical engines shaking themselves to peices?

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Its a combination, most of it is the fact that we have more than 15 horsepower. The U-joints wore out in my truck after 197 thousand miles, so its really not that big of a deal. Two 10 dollar parts later it works just like it was new. (just somewhat of a pain to change them out)

 

I havent seen a decent british car in, uh, well...ever. Jags arent even british anymore as they are owned by Ford

[Mister Big Shot]

I havent seen a decent british car in, uh, well...ever. Jags arent even british anymore as they are owned by Ford 

 

Ah yes but what about Aston Martin? They are British, right?

 

Edit: James Bond drove one or two.

[sp00n]

Ah yes but what about Aston Martin? They are British, right?

 

Edit: James Bond drove one or two.

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I havent seen a decent british car in

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[Connery]

Using Bond as an example was quite a bad idea. His Aston Martins were quite literally teh suck.

[Mister Big Shot]

What the heck are you talking about ? His Aston Martins were quite literaly teh suk? They had EJECTION SEATS AND MACHINE GUNS! Can someone fill me in on this here, I thought Aston Martins are kick @$$ cars, has anyone seen the DB-7?

 

http://www.svetmotoru.net/db_7_coupe.htm