I agree on both points. You say 1-2 business days. Is that with standard shipping? How do you accomplish this without using overnight delivery or priority which may be prohibitively expensive?
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 29, 2013, at 11:22 PM, Gary Hurst <jabbahur...@gmail.com> wrote: > two things in life often don't work out well: > > 1. rushing > 2. cheaping out > > when you do either it generally ends up taking longer and costing more > money, but we have moved to a society that values fast and cheap above > all. in this case, we learn about rushing. you can't rush anymore as > there is a lot of outright crap being sold as people enjoy making 500% > margins while offering the lowest price at the same time. (in fact,THIS is > the only road to success today, but that is a topic for another time). one > simply cannot rush today and expect it to work out with any consistency. > and there often isn't even that much of a delay as parts are often > delivered in one or two business days. > > cheaping out is similarly problematic. penoff sent me a customer recently > who wanted "a deal" on a water pump on a W115 300D. i told him that rather > than search for a low price on the standard geba pump all the front end > sites push, he ought to buy a hepu as those are MUCH better in this > application than the mediocre geba and that i'd sell him one for like 10 > bucks more than a geba. a few days later he emails to solicit advise as > he is having fitment problems with the geba he bought from the low bidder. > what did he save by cheaping out? the bottom line is that going and buying > a pile of garbage at autohausAZ is not really the best value, sort of like > buying shoes at walmart. sometimes it works out but often it does not > > someone was shocked today to learn that the bucket hat i wear all the time > (yeah, i'm a fashion icon) cost over 60 bucks in a world where walmart and > the flea market sell bucket hats for under 10 dollars all day long. i > didn't care to explain it and just said "man, did i get taken!" but the > reality is that it is hemp watership that has been worn pretty much daily > by me for 4 years. it has been washed hundreds of times. it will probably > last several years more and odds are the i will lose it before i wear it > out. > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:33 PM, <dsereta...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> I finally finished the complete front brake job on the 240D today, >> but...it's still not braking quite right. On the highway, with hard >> braking, I get a pulsation. There is also quite a bit of squealing. >> Here's what I did good and bad: >> >> Good: >> I used genuine MB flexible hoses, grease seals, bearing grease, left front >> bearing set, left front steel brake line. I used scale to measure grease >> and dial indicator to set bearings. >> >> Bad: >> I used remanufactured calipers, duralast pads and duralast rotors. I did >> this in the interest of time. I should have been more patient and ordered >> the good stuff from Gary! I also did not torque the lug nuts but I did use >> the wimpy factory lug wrench which can't realistically apply too much >> torque. I also didn't step on it to tighten! I've never had an issue with >> this approach so I doubt that I warped the rotors but you never know. >> >> What could be going on? Literally everything was replaced! >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > -- > *reliable vendor of superior parts for mercedes and other european cars > > * > *www.BuyEUROparts.com* > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
