I've never seen any sale on oil or filters at Walmart. Autozone won't let you out the door without offering you a damn package deal with STP oil, an STP Filter, with a crappy bucket, funnel, roll of shop towels, Fast Orange, and some STP fuel treatment.

Edit. I spent 45 minutes on the phone with Verizon tonight. One thing that is pretty cool they are doing with the 5G home internet is they auto speed test your connection randomly. It all gets logged. So for instance, when I called tonight and complained that I've has to reboot it 8 times, and the D/L speeds have been awful, he could look at the logs and confirm. He too was baffled why most of the time my upload speed is faster than downloading. Anyway, he agreed with me that the modem is problematic, and they're sending a new one to me.

 

I can't even tell you the last time i was in a WalMart. I try to avoid that place at all costs

The more i think about it, was probably close to 2 years since i was in one

 

This is true haha. Although with my 03 ranger,my moms van, and my beater cars. I used to eat up the 19.99 Purolater/Wix special that advance ran with those filters and either castrol, pennzoil or valvoline oil. I seldom ran motorcraft oil in my 03 ranger, but that was also before most of those places started to carry it

 

I spent 20 minutes in the garage, searching for my roll of solder, before I finally remembered I had "organized" it into my new small parts drawers.

 

So one of our wonderful buyers bought a 2012 5 series at auction, needs about 5 grand in just parts, including a 2500 dollar headlamp assembly. i hear the toilet bowl filling as we speak

 

Back in ~2004 my mother had to keep up with the other church people and bought a 3 series. Nice car.
Coils kept failing. Under warranty my dad didn't really care. As soon as the warranty was over he cared as (per his story) the dealer wanted $400 to change a single coil. I ended up replacing about a coil per year. It kept having other stupid problems that I fixed.
In ~2009 the battery failed. Car wouldn't jump start either. He paid to have it towed to dealer. He claims they wanted $1200 to replace the battery. It would need a "special" battery and a battery management computer reset.
I told him I could get a battery but I had no idea how to reset any computer. He had me replace the battery and there is a fckin computer bolted to the top of the battery. Got is all in and back together, lights come on and car answers the remote and ......... Yep, still no start. It must really need that computer reset.

That car sat in the garage, unmoved, until he died in 2013. And was still in that same spot when my mom died in 2020. Neither me nor my siblings wanted to inherit it after hearing the stories of it's constant problems.
Looked brand new and had like 30K miles and sold for $4k in 2020.

I'm not a fan of Deutschland Autos.

 

I have to say, it makes me feel pretty darn good when the VP wanted to personally meet with me and thank me for choosing to work with them and our hiring manager, GM and the P&S director all wanted me to sit in on the interviews and wanted my opinion of who i would rather work beside. And the GM said you put up with someone with a bad attitude long enough, you need someone back there who has a good attitude

 

I don't know, it's getting a little thick over here.....

 

Out in the garage.... I'll hafta catch up later. This just came in the mail though.

 

First bad experience with Dorman...for me anyway.

They shipped me a exhaust manifold with a totally screwed up EGR port. No way that's going to seal. Guess I'll have to suffer the return process....man I hate that. So much for quality control at that place.