The I'm So Pissed Off Thread

ShawnOL

Bought the extended warranty when I bought my truck. Apparently the extended warranty doesn't cover anything related to corrosion, which in New England is any part on the underside of your car. I call the service department and tell them which fluid line is leaking, and where exactly it's leaking. They tell me I have to pay them $210 for them to put it on a lift and look at where the leak is ( already told them) and see what parts need to be replaced (I already told them). This is just to tell me the transmission line is bad and has to be replaced.

Plus I've gotta tow it there (because it's bucking and shifting weird) and then leave it for God only knows how long until they can get to it. Or pay to tow it there, pay the $210 for a "diagnosis" then tow it home to yet again tow it back to them to have the work done.

I seem to remember from working in a garage that we had a labor calculator book which would tell you how many hours labor a given job takes. That plus price of part is your estimate. The kicker is that I can't even add atf because you have to pump it directly into the tranny from below. It can't be driven again until it's fixed. Dealerships are such **** rapists.

End of rant.

Rdp77

Why does it have to be pumped in from below? How do you check the levels?

VegasFrank

Sounds like good old fashioned capitalism to me. In this free market, you're free to go somewhere else, or reap the benefits from doing it yourself.

ShawnOL

@Rdp77 said:
Why does it have to be pumped in from below? How do you check the levels?

There is a small bolt/dipstick coming out of the transmission. You unscrew it and the dipstick is attached, apparently. You can't get a quart bottle in there to add. Gotta pump up and over into the fill hole. A real pita.

Yes frank, I know it's capitalism at work. It's just sleazy business practices that piss me off. Gone are the days of just opening the hood, pulling out the dipstick and pouring in fluid by yourself. Now you have to pay $100/hrs labor to get your transmission fluid checked or add some.

Rdp77

You can’t get a bottle in there…but what about a hose hooked to a funnel?

ShawnOL

The funny thing is that I can barely get under there to see anything. If I jack up the front end, the level will be off and the dipstick reading will be useless. I could use a funnel and long hose but that would take two sets of hands and what do I do with all of the fluid left in the hose once I get the amount in that I want?

Rdp77

The dipstick should show when it’s a quart low.

VegasFrank

@ShawnOL said:

@Rdp77 said:
Why does it have to be pumped in from below? How do you check the levels?

There is a small bolt/dipstick coming out of the transmission. You unscrew it and the dipstick is attached, apparently. You can't get a quart bottle in there to add. Gotta pump up and over into the fill hole. A real pita.

Yes frank, I know it's capitalism at work. It's just sleazy business practices that piss me off. Gone are the days of just opening the hood, pulling out the dipstick and pouring in fluid by yourself. Now you have to pay $100/hrs labor to get your transmission fluid checked or add some.

Yeah I know man it sucks. Diagnostic fees are a crock of ****. I once paid 160 bucks for a guy to hook up an odbc reader . Standard industry practice doesn't mean it's okay.

I was totally trolling you bro. Disregard my bullshit.

I would complain to @MrShrek because he runs a service department at a car dealership. Tell him what a sleazy **** he is.

MrShrek

$100 an hour????? Damn, ours is $229 an hour just for labor.

Amos_Umwhat

@MrShrek said:
$100 an hour????? Damn, ours is $229 an hour just for labor.

And the mechanic gets, what? $15 of that. How do they stay in business?

Just being a smart-alec, I'm sure the mechanic makes at least $18.

OutdoorsSmoke_21191

@VegasFrank said:

@ShawnOL said:

@Rdp77 said:
Why does it have to be pumped in from below? How do you check the levels?

There is a small bolt/dipstick coming out of the transmission. You unscrew it and the dipstick is attached, apparently. You can't get a quart bottle in there to add. Gotta pump up and over into the fill hole. A real pita.

Yes frank, I know it's capitalism at work. It's just sleazy business practices that piss me off. Gone are the days of just opening the hood, pulling out the dipstick and pouring in fluid by yourself. Now you have to pay $100/hrs labor to get your transmission fluid checked or add some.

Yeah I know man it sucks. Diagnostic fees are a crock of ****. I once paid 160 bucks for a guy to hook up an odbc reader . Standard industry practice doesn't mean it's okay.

@VegasFrank you paid $160 for an odbc… old dad bod check…hate to break it to ya buddy…but…😂😂

VegasFrank

@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:

@VegasFrank said:

@ShawnOL said:

@Rdp77 said:
Why does it have to be pumped in from below? How do you check the levels?

There is a small bolt/dipstick coming out of the transmission. You unscrew it and the dipstick is attached, apparently. You can't get a quart bottle in there to add. Gotta pump up and over into the fill hole. A real pita.

Yes frank, I know it's capitalism at work. It's just sleazy business practices that piss me off. Gone are the days of just opening the hood, pulling out the dipstick and pouring in fluid by yourself. Now you have to pay $100/hrs labor to get your transmission fluid checked or add some.

Yeah I know man it sucks. Diagnostic fees are a crock of ****. I once paid 160 bucks for a guy to hook up an odbc reader . Standard industry practice doesn't mean it's okay.

@VegasFrank you paid $160 for an odbc… old dad bod check…hate to break it to ya buddy…but…😂😂

My shiiiits oiled up and ready to be checked, big boy.... I've got the port if you've got the plug. Wait a minute never mind.

It's a condition of getting something fixed in this town. You tell me how to avoid it and I'll go avoid it 😉

ShawnOL

Buy an obdc checker. Less than $160.

dirtdude

I use a bluetooth OBD2 adapter that connects to my phone with a free app. The first one I bought for $2.67 on eBay, had to wait a month for the boat from china but you can get them off the shelf for around $30. It's saved me a ton of money by pinpointing some fairly simple solutions that would cost you fortune at @MrShrek shop.

VegasFrank

@ShawnOL said:
Buy an obdc checker. Less than $160.

Clearly, we have a failure to communicate. If you want to get your vehicle fixed in Las Vegas, you have to pay a $160 diagnostic fee in which they put an odbc scanner into your odbc port.

Now listen, I have an odbc scanner and I can put it in the port and I can pull the code and I can then see what the code really means. But if I don't want to fix that fukking bullshit myself, I got to pay $160 to have a guy put the fukking thing in the fukking thing.

Now if I want to fix my **** bullshit, then I don't have to pay $160 to get an odbc scanner red because I have an odbc scanner in my fuçking garage but I don't want to fix my fuçking bullshit because I have better **** things to do. So I take it to a mechanic so they can fix my fuçking bullshit and they charge me a fuçking $160 ODBC scanning diagnostic.

I don't know if I can be any more clear than this. Maybe I'll author a coloring book about this......

Vision

@VegasFrank said:

@ShawnOL said:
Buy an obdc checker. Less than $160.

Clearly, we have a failure to communicate. If you want to get your vehicle fixed in Las Vegas, you have to pay a $160 diagnostic fee in which they put an odbc scanner into your odbc port.

Now listen, I have an odbc scanner and I can put it in the port and I can pull the code and I can then see what the code really means. But if I don't want to fix that fukking bullshit myself, I got to pay $160 to have a guy put the fukking thing in the fukking thing.

Now if I want to fix my **** bullshit, then I don't have to pay $160 to get an odbc scanner red because I have an odbc scanner in my fuçking garage but I don't want to fix my fuçking bullshit because I have better **** things to do. So I take it to a mechanic so they can fix my fuçking bullshit and they charge me a fuçking $160 ODBC scanning diagnostic.

I don't know if I can be any more clear than this. Maybe I'll author a coloring book about this......

When I have to order someone a new knob or a refrigerator bin, I have to charge them a Diag Fee, even tho they know what the problem is. But it doesn't matter. If they want the knob or bin they pay the diag fee..... and if they want me to deliver it... repair fee.

silvermouse

genareddog

Could we rename this thread, How to get Frank so fuckingpissed off thread?

Stubble

@genareddog said:
Could we rename this thread, How to get Frank so fuckingpissed off thread?

Hold my beer......

Bob_Luken

So my iPhone, just did an update last night and now I can’t recognize the app icons on the screen. I’m so pissed. I want Frank to weigh in on this.

Frank? Give us the good stuff bro.

dirtdude

I have a toolbox and I'm not afraid to use it when needed, never for fun but if something needs fixing I'll take a crack at it. That's where I learned how to cuss was watching Pa work on the car on the weekends.

VegasFrank

@Bob_Luken said:
So my iPhone, just did an update last night and now I can’t recognize the app icons on the screen. I’m so pissed. I want Frank to weigh in on this.

Frank? Give us the good stuff bro.

When you grow up you can buy yourself a Google phone like a big boy.

VegasFrank

For the people I know who have an iPhone, their biggest problem with it is that they get grounded from it for not doing their chores. Don't know if this happens to you too bro.

ShawnOL

I thought you had to be a teenaged girl to be able to buy an iPhone.

First_Warrior

I've still got a flip phone. I use it maybe three times a week. I enjoy being engaged in the life that surrounds me, not glued to a little machine.