Re: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-12 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Autozone is the repository for people who are wasting good air we could be breathing around here. There is one about five minutes from my house, as close as the local Harbor Freight. I won’t set foot in it. The one Advance I go to (and the ONLY) one I have gone to) used to have some pretty

Re: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-12 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
I have routinely went to those joints for Toyota parts for SILs 4runner and some stuff for my pickup unless it’s Cummins related…then it’s Gino’s Garage. Anything MB was 99% obtained online. Jabba, Rusty, among others. I have been getting brave and utilizing the Large Wimmen for many automotive

Re: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-12 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Advance is the same here. Brain dead workers. Autozone only slightly better but depends who is working that day. NAPA is pretty good. Smart counter people who don't look like meth addicts. A little more expensive for most things but I typically shop there anyway. I note that most of the indy

Re: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-12 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I needed. > Going to the auto parts store ain't what it used to be. > > Rick > > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Sent: March 11, 2022 6:39 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Cc: d...@penoff.com > Subject: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots > > Dr

Re: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-12 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Chain autoparts stores are the final haven for people to stupid to work at the grocery store. I consider Advance to have the absolute dumbest clerks. Autozone is a minor step up but the one nearest me has pretty well hit bottom. I'll never forgive Advance for buying Car Quest. My local Car

Re: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-11 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
yes. I so miss Rusty. On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 10:50 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Times like that you miss Rusty. > > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, at 7:38 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > > Drove the SL500 today to take Mrs. Dan to a doctor’s appointment. Car >

Re: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-11 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
to be. > > Rick > > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Sent: March 11, 2022 6:39 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Cc: d...@penoff.com > Subject: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots > > Drove the SL500 today to take Mrs. Dan to a doctor’s appointment

Re: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-11 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Times like that you miss Rusty. On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, at 7:38 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > Drove the SL500 today to take Mrs. Dan to a doctor’s appointment. Car > hasn’t been out much in the past couple of years, so I’ve kept it on a > battery minder and driven it occasionally. > >

Re: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-11 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
I ordered a stabilizer link for my truck from AA a couple years ago. It was supposedly the proper part but it was too short. I took the old one in and the woman said it was the right part according to the catalog but clearly it wasn’t. She dug around the racks for 10-15min and brought out 3 or

Re: [MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-11 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Camel dangling from his lip would head back and bring back the part I needed. Going to the auto parts store ain't what it used to be. Rick From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: March 11, 2022 6:39 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: d...@penoff.com Subject: [MBZ] Auto

[MBZ] Auto Parts Idiots

2022-03-11 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Drove the SL500 today to take Mrs. Dan to a doctor’s appointment. Car hasn’t been out much in the past couple of years, so I’ve kept it on a battery minder and driven it occasionally. We pull out of the garage and it’s clearly not happy, idling rough. I figure it won’t hurt to get it out and