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post 1631984893 02-21-2021, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted By tunafishha⏩
Yeah, and if you don't lift the car up properly, it'll kill you. And, if you don't torque the bolts down properly, it'll rattle and fly off at 60mph.

Like I said, brake pad change are fine if you are some what mechanically inclined(7/10). If lower than that you need take it to a shop or do some serious research before tackling it.
Lol, I work at a dealership and we never use torque wrenches. Zap it on with an electric impact or ratchet.
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Originally Posted By CremeFraicheBro⏩
I lol @ anybody letting some poverty wage tech do basic maintenance like brakes and oil on vehicles.

They aren’t going to give have the fuk I do about having it done right. Brb go in for an oil change and the tech strips the oil pan bolt because they air wrench literally anything they can to 100x spec.

Oil filter tightened so much you need to be King Arthur to remove that bish.
I work at a dealer and I can tell you that most places, the good techs, the one's you want to work on your car isn't the one doing oil changes and usually not brake jobs. That's given to grease monkeys. Either they don't have the experience or they aren't capable of doing anything else. Might be a few that are good, but not many. They aren't pulling me off a diagnostic job to do some brakes or an oil change.

Pro-tip: Get to know who's who where you go and request the guy you know is about it to do all of your work. SRS being requested even to do some petty crap we don't mind.
post 1631986163 02-21-2021, 02:56 PM
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Lmao at people having to pay $500+ dollars to change out a $30 part.

Literally could do it and barely get dirty. Hardest part is taking the wheel off.
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post 1631986223 02-21-2021, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted By Jasonw1178⏩
I work at a dealer and I can tell you that most places, the good techs, the one's you want to work on your car isn't the one doing oil changes and usually not brake jobs. That's given to grease monkeys. Either they don't have the experience or they aren't capable of doing anything else. Might be a few that are good, but not many. They aren't pulling me off a diagnostic job to do some brakes or an oil change.

Pro-tip: Get to know who's who where you go and request the guy you know is about it to do all of your work. SRS being requested even to do some petty crap we don't mind.
I would immediately stop letting the grease monkeys work on the brakes if you value your job. One lawsuit is all it takes, bb.

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Originally Posted By CremeFraicheBro⏩
I lol @ anybody letting some poverty wage tech do basic maintenance like brakes and oil on vehicles.

They aren’t going to give have the fuk I do about having it done right. Brb go in for an oil change and the tech strips the oil pan bolt because they air wrench literally anything they can to 100x spec.

Oil filter tightened so much you need to be King Arthur to remove that bish.
Can confirm bought a car that only went to tradie oil change shop, bolt was completely stripped lmao. Had to buy these sockets with like teeth in it to dig into the bolt and take off.
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post 1631987273 02-21-2021, 03:12 PM
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If you really can't do it, just watch a youtube video on your vehicle. It's a very basic job, and a basic socket set and c clamp will get the job done. Jacking up a car and placing it on a jack stand should be a requirement to pass a driver's license test.
post 1631987743 02-21-2021, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted By 29erbrah⏩
If you really can't do it, just watch a youtube video on your vehicle. It's a very basic job, and a basic socket set and c clamp will get the job done. Jacking up a car and placing it on a jack stand should be a requirement to pass a driver's license test.
Jacking up a car is only necessary for people in emergency situations where they need to quickly replace a tire to get out of the road shoulder. But working on a car for long periods of time with little understanding of safety is putting yourself at risk to get seriously hurt, especially when you don't have much experience working on cars.

All I'm saying is, take safety and precaution seriously for the DIY folks. It's not a joke.
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Originally Posted By tunafishha⏩
Jacking up a car is only necessary for people in emergency situations where they need to quickly replace a tire to get out of the road shoulder. But working on a car for long periods of time with little understanding of safety is putting yourself at risk to get seriously hurt, especially when you don't have much experience working on cars.

All I'm saying is, take safety and precaution seriously for the DIY folks. It's not a joke.
Wouldnt advise rando clowns to jack their car up and go under it experimenting. Legit had an uncle of a friend get crushed doing that in his driveway and die. But as another said, being able to routine maintenance (brakes, oil etc) is something every man should know.

JFL at taking your car in so some scumbag mechanic can purposefully fuk your car up and tell you it came that way, fix it and make you pay, all because business was slow that day. Go watch those undercover videos where they put mini cameras all under the hood, and record scumbags breaking chit and lying to customers and making them pay thousands. It's a widespread problem.
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post 1631991183 02-21-2021, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted By CremeFraicheBro⏩
I lol @ anybody letting some poverty wage tech do basic maintenance like brakes and oil on vehicles.

They aren’t going to give have the fuk I do about having it done right. Brb go in for an oil change and the tech strips the oil pan bolt because they air wrench literally anything they can to 100x spec.

Oil filter tightened so much you need to be King Arthur to remove that bish.
Hah This pisses me off so ****ing bad, you can hand tighten everything with oil and they blast everything with impacts instead. I have done changes where im pulling so hard on the ****ing oil filter wrench or even the drain bolt with 2 hands im half certain im going to pull the car right off the jacks stands and kill myself

Brakes.. if you dont have experience with cars... could be risky.
post 1631991343 02-21-2021, 04:08 PM
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Some brakes are impossible to do completely at home.
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post 1631992193 02-21-2021, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted By Jasonw1178⏩
If you DIY just do pads and rotors together. Don't put new pads on rotors that have been worn to the old pads. Might stop okay but won't stop properly especially in emergency situations. Use quality products.
Pretty hard to do that if you have pressed on rotors.
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lol @ keeping a vehicle so long that you have to put in new brakes
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Originally Posted By scooterbrah⏩
lol @ keeping a vehicle so long that you have to put in new brakes
MOGGED. My doctor gets a brand new BMW 7 series every year. I don't know that he even changes the oil.
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Doing brakes on my G8 is easy, doing brakes on my K10, FML. LOL
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Originally Posted By EDcellent⏩
Doing brakes on my G8 is easy, doing brakes on my K10, FML. LOL
Rear drums?
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Originally Posted By ErnieMccracken⏩
MOGGED. My doctor gets a brand new BMW 7 series every year. I don't know that he even changes the oil.
i usually trade before i need new tires. so that usually means 2 oil changes and 1 battery before its on to a new vehicle
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Originally Posted By tunafishha⏩
Brake jobs are extremely expensive at the dealership. $300 just for the front on my mother's 2015 Odyssey.

Its worth it to do on your own but there are major safety risk if you don't do it correctly, and there is a correct and wrong way to dew it.
not all of us are broke and live in a 3rd world chithole



also 300 for a brake job basically outed yourself as a fraudcel pretending he lives in asia
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Originally Posted By TuskV⏩
If you're a man and can't do your own brakes... JFL

BRB saving hundreds/thousands
BRB dirty black manly hands
BRB not being cucked by mechanic theives

Diy life 4 lyfe
I can do my own breaks. I can change my own oil. I can do lots of chit in my car.

But why the fuk would I ever do that myself? that's like saying "Imagine buying steaks instead of butchering your own cows", or "Imaging buying tomatoes instead of growing your own crops!"

I pay people to do the peasant work for me. That's why I have a job.


Next you're gonna say "Imagine not mowing your own lawn".

No thx jeffery.
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Agreed.

Got quoted $750 for brakes & rotors once.

I LMAO'd in the guys face, drove to AutoZone, paid $35 for pads, and did it myself in 25 minutes.

Brb, essentially paying myself $1450/hr to do my own brakes.
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Originally Posted By Tanerian⏩
I can do my own breaks. I can change my own oil. I can do lots of chit in my car.

But why the fuk would I ever do that myself? that's like saying "Imagine buying steaks instead of butchering your own cows", or "Imaging buying tomatoes instead of growing your own crops!"

I pay people to do the peasant work for me. That's why I have a job.


Next you're gonna say "Imagine not mowing your own lawn".

No thx jeffery.
u make over $1400/hr at your job?
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Originally Posted By Tanerian⏩
I can do my own breaks. I can change my own oil. I can do lots of chit in my car.

But why the fuk would I ever do that myself? that's like saying "Imagine buying steaks instead of butchering your own cows", or "Imaging buying tomatoes instead of growing your own crops!"

I pay people to do the peasant work for me. That's why I have a job.


Next you're gonna say "Imagine not mowing your own lawn".

No thx jeffery.
Wat? And actually growing your own crops is goat level stuff too.

Some just don't understand, its not really about the money, its about pride and getting things done right, growing as a man. Saving money is just a nice extra.
Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
Agreed.

Got quoted $750 for brakes & rotors once.

I LMAO'd in the guys face, drove to AutoZone, paid $35 for pads, and did it myself in 25 minutes.

Brb, essentially paying myself $1450/hr to do my own brakes.
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post 1631995873 02-21-2021, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted By imbored205⏩
OP did work on his car for the first time and feels proud.
No brah please read. Was at Autozone getting something for my golf cart, and was watching some twenty-somethings have the autozone guy install their battery for them. Then just dawned on me how so many cucked dudes can't do basic car work these days. Men are no longer men in 2021.
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post 1631996253 02-21-2021, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted By TuskV⏩
Wat? And actually growing your own crops is goat level stuff too.

Some just don't understand, its not really about the money, its about pride and getting things done right, growing as a man. Saving money is just a nice extra.
If you ENJOY doing that stuff, or it's a HOBBY, sure. Feel all the pride you want and go wild.

I would literally rather pay someone 600$ (what it cost me last time) to do my breaks than do it myself, and I absolutely know how. I used to do it when I was younger and far more poverty. I used to change my own oil back then too.. Now I sit in my car while someone else gets all fuking dirty doing it for me, shoving food into my face and browsing the misc.


But like.. my whole drive to make more money stems from the fact that I absolutely don't want to do that type of chit myself, because fuk getting dirty when I can pay someone else to get dirty for me.


Nothing about outdoor work or fixing cars is vital to "Growing as a man". You can take pride in anything you do (and should). Again, if you enjoy it, go wild, but acting like people who don't do it themselves are less of a man is stupid ape think.
Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
u make over $1400/hr at your job?
I don't understand that price point.
You don't have to make anywhere near that money to be able to afford a break job.
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Originally Posted By Tanerian⏩
If you ENJOY doing that stuff, or it's a HOBBY, sure. Feel all the pride you want and go wild.

I would literally rather pay someone 600$ (what it cost me last time) to do my breaks than do it myself, and I absolutely know how. I used to do it when I was younger and far more poverty. I used to change my own oil back then too.. Now I sit in my car while someone else gets all fuking dirty doing.


But like.. my whole drive to make more money stems from the fact that I absolutely don't want to do that type of chit myself, because fuk getting dirty when I can pay someone else to get dirty for me.


Nothing about outdoor work or fixing cars is vital to "Growing as a man". You can take pride in anything you do (and should). Again, if you enjoy it, go wild, but acting like people who don't do it themselves are less of a man is stupid ape think.
I hear ya and agree, as long as you know how. That's the point I'm trying to make.

95% of people taking their car in to get brakes done don't know how to do it themselves and are too afraid to learn because of scarecels saying its a life or death situation. You'd have to be a buffoon to fuk em up for basic cars. I'm also serious about scumbag mechanics purposely messing up your car and making you pay to have it fixed. Im a conspiracycel so i just like to do things myself when i can.
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Originally Posted By unamogger⏩
Lol, I work at a dealership and we never use torque wrenches. Zap it on with an electric impact or ratchet.
exactly why I only go to dealers for warranty, even then its a judgement call and I recheck all the work

Being a mechanic, I do most of my own stuff, but have a guy I can drop off to if im in a pinch. Like I most likely wont be swapping a transmission in my driveway.
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Originally Posted By ErnieMccracken⏩
Rear drums?
Not only that, but the front hubs are bolted into the rotor. You need to pound out the wheel studs to separate the hub and rotor. I mean it's not terribly difficult, but it can be messy from the bearing grease and it's more work than just sliding a rotor off.

I did it once while converting from full time to manual locking hubs. That was about 4 years ago. Might need to do the brakes again this year lol.
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If you can’t afford a $500 brake job and are trying to “save” on something you do every 5 years then you shouldn’t even have a car....



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Originally Posted By TuskV⏩
. I'm also serious about scumbag mechanics purposely messing up your car and making you pay to have it fixed. Im a conspiracycel so i just like to do things myself when i can.
I could go on and on about this chit. It definitely happens. It's horrible in the tech field too. Computer repair shops can be the scummiest fukers on earth. Brb plugging power source from motherboard into GPU. That'll be 120$.
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Originally Posted By Tanerian⏩
I could go on and on about this chit. It definitely happens. It's horrible in the tech field too. Computer repair shops can be the scummiest fukers on earth. Brb plugging power source from motherboard into GPU. That'll be 120$.
That's everything. HVAC guy charged me $400 to pop a new $15 capacitor in. Water heater was $2500. Lord help you if you ever need a plumber.
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Originally Posted By Tanerian⏩
I could go on and on about this chit. It definitely happens. It's horrible in the tech field too. Computer repair shops can be the scummiest fukers on earth. Brb plugging power source from motherboard into GPU. That'll be 120$.
Originally Posted By ErnieMccracken⏩
That's everything. HVAC guy charged me $400 to pop a new $15 capacitor in. Water heater was $2500. Lord help you if you ever need a plumber.
I had a buddy who was a master mechanic at Dodge like 10 years ago, and he would tell me how he'd change a fuse or fix chit in 5 mins and bill the customer 10 hours labor. He did that every day and was making like $250k/yr just scamming people. He said everyone that worked there did it and they all worked together in one massive scam.
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