FYI,
Just in case you don't know a dealer normally has 3 levels of pricing.

1= Full retail
2= Very Good customers
3= Employee Pricing.


You want to be at 2 or better. Some dealerships may have more levels of pricing. So, if you are a good customer at the parts counter, you get
very good discounts. Don't be a jerk. All dealerships have this pricing from Chevrolet to Toyota, etc.

I noticed that one dealer here in town gives me better pricing on parts than the other two. But it's not because I'm a nice customer. I have yelled at them plenty; more than once they have tried to sell me copper crush washers for my transmission and differential fill/drain plugs even when I give them the damn part number :shakes head:

:rofl2:

Don't laugh. It's not funny. Especially when I call ahead to make sure they have them in stock, and they have a bag of copper crush washers waiting for me at pick up and none of the washers I need in stock. :mad:

And that's happened twice!! Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, not gonna happen. I now make them put their eyes on the washers and tell me the color over the phone.

It's sad that I have to do that. Any time they screw up something like that, I just walk over to the showroom GT-R and just start commenting loudly on how many swirls are in the paint and that I'd be pissed if my $100K car had paint looking like this. That always makes me feel better :icon17:

still funny :rofl2: haha

dogdamn foolz!! :mad:

Well, you know those washers are reusable right. I have never needed to replace a single one of them, ever.

An automatic uses the same copper crush washer on the drain plug on the older cars, probably the same for this one.

They are noted as one-use washers in the service manual :tiphat: And IMO they are not expensive enough to bother reusing (even at the full retail price of ~$2.50/washer). I did once in a pinch when the dealer screwed up and only had one washer for me (again... idiots smdh). But if you look closely, they are definitely layered and do crush slightly. You could also probably reuse the copper crush washer on the oil drain plug if you really wanted to. I choose not to. YMMV

Are you confusing the copper crush washer on the oil drain plug for the aluminum washer/gasket for transmission/differential fill/drain plugs? Not sure what you're getting at with your second statement :confused:

Happened to me. I will make a plastic sleeve to cover any oil that flows into the top of the shroud. And not really fond of jacking up the rear to level the car. I find it to be a hassle for some reason.

holy crap, they charge you for the copper washer? They give them to me for free every time I go ask.

Yep. $0.50 apiece or something. I buy them in bulk so I don't have to deal with the parts counter idiots as frequently.

:shakes head: keep bragging about ur pretty face mang.. wtf.. :shakes head:

no one gives me shitt. usps give me shittt...

4 new MPSS installed and alignment done this morning. Of course I had to take the Z for a 30 minute drive right after, just to make sure the tires are round :icon17:

I understand why onzedge always gives the :tup: for these tires, it's a really good choice.

super jelly aren't ya?

The more they charge you the uglier you are I guess. I use my credit card a lot :shakes head:

Getting oil, clutch and brake fluids changed. Mechanics mentioned rotors could be warping so will need to look at getting new ones in the near future.

Need to do some research now

yep! :mad:

30mins will loop around entire hawaii?

Unless you have over 50k miles or have been doing lots of 60-0 stops, I'd say you need to find a new mech. :eekdance:

At 2 am, you can almost pull it off... I'd say more like a trip to Waimanalo and back. ;)

:rofl2:

Well I did mention to him a vibration during 70kmh or faster braking.... said possibly so they looking at it.

Maybe I'm just a crappy driver :(

TIFU - Snapped a bolt while carefully tightening up the intake manifold bolts in an attempt to fix a vacuum leak. :mad:

how did u manage to do dat, kingkong! :icon17:

Moved the Z from one garage to the other :ugh2:
Most its been driven in 2 weeks :icon17:

Did get the lights up while it was moved though :tup: Yes, I know the right hand side is not lined up perfectly, will be done later.
http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k...ps5epzrigl.jpg

I couldn't feel the "click" from the torque wrench, and I was still dealing with vacuum leak from underneath one side of the manifold. So I thought it wasn't fully torqued yet and snapped the bolt. :owned:

ouch! sorry to hear. :(


sometimes experience tells me just use a regular wrench and go by feel. :D

Would that be a vacuum leak or a pressure leak.

I guess it depends much on the frame of reference you pick.

:icon17:

LOL thanks. It might already be an issue before I started maintenance work since I planned on doing a leak test, but I guess the leaky intake manifold pretty much explains it.

:)

I do feel for your having to deal with broken bolts. Always a major pain.

especially when the rest of the threads are binding (cross threaded) :ugh:

Ugh... I hope it's not too bad. I'm trying to get help as I don't want to further sink this ship.

What did you do with your Z today VI (ON TOPIC DISCUSSION ONLY)
 

Got my Z dyno'd today at AWDTuning in Flower Mound, TX. They use a Mustang Dyno.
Good gains though. Temp. here was 90 degrees and very humid so the numbers seemed low at first glance but Keith, the tuner, put up a file of a stock Z's baseline he tuned last year and compared it to my bolt on modded +tuned Z and it's a drastic increase.

See pics below! (excuse the dirtiness)


Results


Video

good stuff :tup:

Traded her in. It's bittersweet.

Picked up a jwt lightweight flywheel to begin the process of piecing together all the parts to change out the clutch on my Z....anybody know anything about competition clutches?

Sad to see it go. Wha'd ya finally settle on for a replacement?

Commuting in to work this morning, minding my own business, going with the flow of traffic. I get a Civic fly-by. Not even a "Ricer-Civic", just plain ole vanilla. Does the fly-by & then pulls all the way over to the far right lane, just in time to make the next exit. wtf?

going to wash her right now

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We got a really decent deal on a Mazda 6 sport.

I wanted to cry when I hugged the Z goodbye. Yes, hugged.