stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:In reply to dan0 :
In my experience, he will reply 3 days later saying that he sold the car the day before.
It's wild how often that happens.
What happens in those 45 seconds after you say "great, I'll take it, when can we meet?"
In reply to dan0 and Spearfishin:
That's why I try and convey that I want to see the item immediately, like what dan0 did. In my mind, I feel that it shows I'm serious. If they don't respond in a few hours, it shows that they aren't serious and it's probably better to just move on.
I've had looooots of my time wasted unfortunately.
Dear companies selling cool electronics kits:
I do not want a subscription. A subscription to "kits" is not a normal thing. Don't act like it is. I want to buy a specific thing and enjoy it. Just sell me that specific thing. Take my money.
(example)
I thought that the garage door opener got all out of kilter because the chain was too loose, but while I was gone it happened again. I thought the chain was jumping but what actually happens is that the little gear that tells the opener how open or not open the door is doesn't have good engagement with the drive shaft. There's a little bushing or bearing at the top of the shaft that had worn, causing the shaft to be pulled forward, leaving the gears in light contact. Fortunately, a new drive shaft and gear assembly was under $20 with delivery tomorrow.
Well got a reply, he lives in the next town over but originally from NJ. In the pictures the car has a NJ plate. He messaged me saying he's working on getting the title overnighted up to CT. So things are looking up. Fingers crossed...
In reply to dan0 :
Good news. At least he is trying to get the title.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
What SciFi series was it? That sounds familiar...
Dropped my 2013 tractor off to have the leaking front output seal replaced, this job requires the tractor to be split.
When I got home, I smelled oil and discovered that my 2019 Chevrolet likely has a rear main seal leak. Hope it's covered by the extended warranty.
2025 sucks so far.
TravisTheHuman said:Toyman! said:There is a limit to how many untrained people I can afford.
It seems like you are drowning in work and have the market cornered - raise prices, afford to train more people?
That works to a point. I'm already running two trucks with helpers when I only really need one. That costs me about $55k per year for a guy to ride around in a truck to learn the ropes. It has to be done but it's not cheap.
We are already the most expensive door company in the area. We get away with it because of the quality of work we do and the skill we have in integrating door hardware, door automation, and security and getting those systems to play together nicely. I use a lot of that to pay the guys more, but there's a fine line between charging too little and charging too much and the only person who knows where that line is is the customer. I get to guess. Another reason I have gray hair.
It's up to 45 degrees out, so I'm working on a car outside, and have the garage door open. Something in the way the air moves means the pot smell from two houses down ends up in my garage. At least now that it's legal, it's better quality and not the skunk E36 M3 they used to smoke, but come on, get with the times and vape so the smell isn't as strong 100 feet away.
Antihero said:In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
What SciFi series was it? That sounds familiar...
It was (or the first book of the series is, if you don't count the short story "The Lady Astronaut of Mars") The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal.
I actually didn't realize she'd written a third book in the series (I read "The Fated Sky" right after "The Calculating Stars" like 6-7 years ago), I'm going to have to check it ("The Relentless Moon") out.
I like alternate history sci-fi, but don't get to read enough of it (or much of anything these days).
I don't trust my own memory enough to know whether I berkeleyed up or if it's just getting blamed on me. Either way I'm taking responsibility for it on the chin and feel incredibly guilty about the whole situation. I just wish I knew if it was my fault or not
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
And he's an shiny happy person. Cash in my wallet ready to go. In his original post he didn't want to spend anymore time / money on it. Now in less than 24 hours he's fixed it and going to get it re-diagnosed.
My garage computer's mouse is currently covered with blood because I was carrying a heavy potted plant outside and my middle finger caught on a motorcycle's tag and ripped a gouge in the side of the finger. That's going to be annoying while it heals. It's a big flap. Great.
In reply to dan0 :
It makes me wonder if he was serious about selling it at all. What a dick move.
Sorry it didn't work out.
Old man yells at clouds rant time.
Apple used to be so good at making things that just work. And when they made updates, even if I didn't like them at first, after a bit of use, they'd make sense. Recent-ish UI changes are getting on my nerves. It seems like they keep adding more gestures and using edges of screen space for them, and make it harder for me to just scroll on my tablet. I don't know how many times I've opened a whole new window, or gone to the home screen, or done something else completely unexpected just trying to scroll.
Today took the cake. My watch updated. I use a picture gallery for my background. It changed to a different face. I had to google how to change it back. They've "integrated" the time/date/event info into the pictures, so now, every time I look at my watch, the information is in a different location on the screen, and sometimes in a different visual format (hours and minutes stacked or horizontal, sometimes part of it "tucked" behind a feature in the photo). How the hell is that useful? I have this thing because the doctor wanted me to have something to monitor my heart, and all this is going to do is raise my blood pressure.
It really annoys me when people try to be nice while driving when it's unneccesary. I can't see you waving at me from 50ft away in the rain, so i'm wondering why you aren't turning yet when you have the right-of-way and I don't. And with how many E36M3-ty drivers are on the road these days, i'm certainly not going to assume that you're letting me go and risk you getting off your phone and accelerating just at the right time to hit me. This whole snafu of trying to figure out what is going on caused me to sit at my stop sign longer than if you just went when you were supposed to and I went afterwards like i was supposed to.
Don't be nice, be predictable.
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Probably part of it. Listing only had two pictures, nearly similar and taken with leaves still green on the trees, so at least 6 months old. But for the price it was worth the chance.
I decided against writing anything back to him, mean or indifferent. But if he reaches back out to me when it's for sale again I'm leaving that open. Unless it needs more work and it's the same or less in price I'm not buying it.
Here's the reason I jumped on it so quick. Top is the wagon I sold to golfduke and then just missed out on buying it back from him. Below is the wagon I tried to buy...
In reply to budget_bandit :
That sort of thing makes my blood boil. If you want to be "nice" on the roadways, all you need to do is follow the system of rules that have been worked out already and codified into law. My subdivision ends in a "tee" intersection at a crest on a somewhat windy posted-45 road. The subdivision has a stop sign, the other road does not. You do sort of have to slow down to almost a stop when making a left turn into the subdivision because there is a limited visibility down the hill and occasionally pedestrians are crossing the street, so there's stuff you need to look for. Time after time after time some person who thinks they're being nice wants to sit on the main road with their turn signal on flashing their headlights at me intending for me to go. And more often than not, there's no traffic behind them. Well, correction, there is traffic behind them but it's far enough away that if they just slowed down, checked for right-of-way, then made their turn, I'd be able to get out in front of the oncoming car with no issues. But of course they sit there flashing their lights at me while I flash my lights at them in some sort of perverse standoff with two or three cars now stopped behind them until they finally make their turn.
I suspect those are the same people that, when approaching a parked car on their side of the road, will simply drive around the car on, you know, the OTHER side of the road, even when traffic is approaching them. And then get all pissed off because the oncoming traffic had the audacity to not just stop so that they can get through.
But I didn't come to talk about that... The daughter's Civic is *this* close to being ready to go. We got it insured and registered, fixed the short in the brake light circuit, and all that's left to do - we thought - was take it out and seat the rings. Great. But when we came back to the car, the paper I put under it was soaked with oil. It looked like it was coming from the oil filter so we removed the filter to inspect. Oddly, the filter was completely empty even though we had filled it before putting it on and then ran the car for quite a bit. Fortunately, we had bought a couple oil filters so we broke out a new one, filled it with oil, and put it on. Ran the car, everything was good, so we shut it back off and left for the night. We went back yesterday and there was another little puddle under the car. Oil was pooled on the block so it was hard to tell from where it was originating, but we started looking around. To get access to the oil pressure sender - since I know those can leak - we took the filter off. Mostly empty again. Everything above the filter is clean and dry. The area below the valve cover is clean and dry all the way around. The area above and below where the head and block meet is clean and dry. I can't see any place from which oil could be coming other than the filter. And I can't imagine how the filter could wind up being empty if the leak was coming from anywhere other than the filter. They're both Wix filters that I got from Rock Auto, so maybe it's a bad batch, but that's weird, right? And the mating surface on the block for the filter gasket feels smooth. There was zero oil leak on the car before we rebuilt the motor, so it's not like we somehow missed a hole in the block or something.
We stuffed a bunch of paper towels around the area last night before we left and we're going to go back over this morning and take a look. One of those paper towels will be soaked with oil and the others should be dry, so hopefully that will at least point us to the problem. It's so damned frustrating to be this close and have a weird problem like this.
In reply to wae :
Double check the o-rings / gaskets on the filters.
Working at Napa we had a bulletin about the two. It's either 'lathe cut' (the style that has existed on everything forever) or a 'molded gasket' (new and fancy idea I guess?) I can't remember when we got this bulletin and there is no date or numbers on it for referencing.
Lathe cut is cut flat and square, molded is rounded top. Molded style can be 'tightened until the metal canister appears to be touching the mating surface on the oil filter housing'
Do not back it off after it touches as it can result a poor axial seal.
Wix makes the Napa Gold filters so there is a chance this could help sort out the leak.
In reply to wae :
Maybe oil filter pedestal o-ring got pinched on reassembly?
In reply to budget_bandit :
Pittsburgh drivers are like this and it drives me insane. They will clog up moving traffic and create a hazard to let someone out. If they would just keep moving, that person could easily pull out after we pass them freeing up the road. My saying is that Pittsburgh drivers are courteous to a fault.
Don't get me started about people going 50mph in the center lane. When you pass them and glance over, they look like they are absolutely terrified to be driving at all.
We put a Honda filter on it and that seems to have fixed it!
DjGreggieP said:
Wix makes the Napa Gold filters so there is a chance this could help sort out the leak.
I think I heard recently that NAPA switched their gold line to another manufacturer?
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