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amen...finding a good mechanic and barber you can stay with forever should be man law...like others in this thread i found my mechanic 15 years ago and take my own parts and pay him cash to install...in 15 years i bet he has saved me 20k+..only has me buy the things i need...i drive over 40k per year so i see him about once a month...kind of getting scared cause he is getting old...

40K per year, do you post from the car?

What do you do?
 

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i'm taking my vehicle to firestone . they already quoted me 125 bucks per axle . i feel like thats fair.
 

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40K per year, do you post from the car?

What do you do?

no...work for a magazine publisher...drive about 200 miles a day 4 days per week only takes about 5 hours... leave at 9 and usually home between 2 or 3...love my job!
 

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Its the only thing that can carry all the fat fucks.
 

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haha Jack...

I have been going to just brakes for years. I take the $99 offer and I turn everything else down. The $99 offer is a good offer, then you leave and go to a real shop to find out if anything else needs done.

Not rocket science douchers.
 

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Usually in a bad part of town a good deal can be had, places usually speak Spanish and sell used tires as well.
 

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Usually in a bad part of town a good deal can be had, places usually speak Spanish and sell used tires as well.
5Team, seriously get a life. This is the best reply you come up with after bumping an almost 8 year old thread. Man your life is almost as bad as mine. Ha Ha.
 

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5Team, seriously get a life. This is the best reply you come up with after bumping an almost 8 year old thread. Man your life is almost as bad as mine. Ha Ha.

Lay off. 5team is the Tom Brady of thread bumps. So what if he's having a bad night. Not going to crucify 5team just because he swung and missed this time. His batting average is still .900 or better in the thread bumping industry.
 

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Usually in a bad part of town a good deal can be had, places usually speak Spanish and sell used tires as well.

Excellent Advice. Mexican Shops will even let you get your own parts and in (still) most large US Cities the Cab Companies there have Bulk Purchase Pricing with NAPA.

This means a guy can buy Brake Parts, anything they could possibly need to get their Brakes like Brand New

at the massively Discounted Price that Taxi Companies pay which is super super low cuz they've been buying from NAPA for years.

Cab Companies have to refurbish Brakes on their cars alot. Cuz those cars go 24/7 until they break. 12 Hour Shifts, one guy in another guy out of the car. They do this: Car being driven all over the place 24/7 until that car stops running (then they fix w/e made it stop, then put it back out, to The Fleet) only other way a Car escapes this Hell is if a dude Crashes it.

Even then they sometimes repair them. Point Is: This is a Brilliant Idea. Combined with That Uncovering of where the Large Taxi Firms in your City buy their parts from....

....generally Mexican Shops nowadays aren't Racist but the opposite of that: They're Businessmen. They've come to a place where they Realize that to treat that rare white man that is Sharp Enough to bring his business to them might equal he recommends their shop.

In Past Times Mexican Shops were different. They'd RESENT a White Man, for showing up at their shop with a bundle of Brake Parts bought at Pennies above what fuggin' NAPA spends for them cuz that White Devil ran a "Hey. Tumbleweed Taxi Account, need some Brake Parts ASAP. How Long till you can get those over here."

So The Mexican Shop might rig a White person's Brakes up to where they'd fail so that he'd Crash & Die. Things are different now though.

Them Yesterday's Mexicans be a TRIP.



You wanna work the Bulk (Wholesale) Pricing that Cab Companies get, Key Part is that Bolded. Call All Auto Parts Dealers (Big Ones) in your City and say that to establish Ongoing Cheap Hookup for Auto Parts.

Key is to say the Bolded part in the total Right Way.

NO Question Mark. You will notice there is not a fucking Question mark there. You must get into that Role, MindSpace of a mechanic at a fuggin' Cab Company.

Key #2, Still (incredibly) in that small Bolded Part:

DELIVERY.


Come with Enough Fire just once. Eventually you will get That Account # and then you just call in and say: "Account #" and the parts you want.

Crash & Burn occurs (generally) ONLY when you have Bad Luck of getting Senior Dude like: Manager Guy on the phone who has dealt with The Cab Company for years

Try to still Save The Deal by saying Jorge is out cuz his Daughter is having a Baby.

When he says: "Who the fuck is Horhay?" most normally he will say also:

"I usually deal with _______"

then you say: 'OK, same guy. We call him Jorge here at the shop bcuz he got arrested having sex with a Prostitute in a Barn."

Most Generally though it is Best not to try and Run This Scam on Upper Management at you local Auto Parts Store.

When you find which of Your Local Auto Parts Suppliers that Cab Company buys their Parts thru, you wanna not pursue this till you get a fuckin' kid on the phone.

Underling. Fuck With a Manager if you just wanna Practice being God of Deception, God of Thunder

Thats EGO tho, FOOLISH. Bridge to sooper cheap Brake Parts: You Risk Burning such DOWN


managers mostly don't answer phones though, at Auto Parts Stores (at least where I have lived) to take Orders and if MGR picks up as soon as he finds out its an order he'll give the phone to a kid who does not care about anything other than Pussy and Music and Beer so the whole affair is no thing like as bad as trying to avoid landmines in Laos.


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Oh Crap I left out Key Part: Of Course you don't want the parts delivered to The Cab Yard. Its Important that you PRESENT with that.

"how long till you can get those here?"

Dude says How Long?


You're In.


Get whatever Parts you need Ordered, handle getting the Order Placed



then you say however long he said, for them to Deliver


is Too Long.


You'll just have Dispatch call one of your Cabs to come get them bcuz you've got more Broken Cabs than you have inlets to fix cars so Repair Shop catching HELL

and The Iranian Owner of the company is yelling, eyes Bulging out his Bald Round Non-Descript Nothingness ButterFaced Head.


so you'll just send a guy to come get the parts.


Making it be like: "Hey. Tumbleweed Taxi Account, need some Brake Parts ASAP. How Long till you can get those over here."

establishes you as Real.


Why else would you Lead In with "Delivery."?

 

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Above is just to get the Cab Company's Account Number ^^^^^ then call in, Order by just saying that. You only have to go through this 3x at most. Acct. # will be on Boxes containing the parts, for Pick-Up they write that or on Invoice. Nowadays less so that, on Invoice. You Can Work It though. Have Faith. Belief In Yourself is the most important thing. Of any thing.


If you don't after 3 times of doing whats in those posts above, acct. # not on Boxes or Invoice (World getting more Secure, less Trusting, More High Tech. Bummer).

Order parts via this Method and send in a guy who is able to act "slow", like: Mentally Challenged plus with Determination to get that Account Number.


This works.


Auto Parts Store guys are very Impatient.
 

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