So here is something I was just so amused with I had to share. I had to go to Autozone to get a part that they said they have. I was almost positive they didn't and had a suspicion the lady hadn't a clue what I was looking for. The rare and mysterious Mustang banjo bolt. They are a special and odd size and the dealers don't even stock them.
So I get into this Autozone and was surprised to see 6 employees working, more surprised they were all female. Only ever seen one at an Autozone before. So I wait in line and there is a Spanish individual (in very broken english) that he needs to screw in his rear caliper for new pads. She wasn't understanding and was looking up new calipers, new pads etc etc. So I calmly say "He needs to rent the tool to compress rear calipers on Ford cars."
She gives me a blank stare and says something I just don't understand. I then realize she is either Indian or Pakistani and has very poor english as well. So I get to the parts rental thing they have on the counter and point out the tool. All smiles, everyones happy. I am thanked.
So I see the next lady and tell her what I need and I can see its not going anywhere, shes clueless. So while I let her run off and pull more parts (even though I said the part she wanted to pull wouldn't have it) I overhear another AZ employee telling another lady what her CEL code was. I recognized the code as a bad O2 code Mustang owners often get. The AZ girl tells this other girl "Yeah, that is means (just like that) your cadilladic convertor is bad and its expensive. See it cant store oxygen anymore to calitify the air through the injectors that combusulizes in the intake of the exhaust." ......
"See here it is and its expensive and then you have to go to the dealer to have them install it cause its a special $100,000 tool they have to put it in but the part is cheaper from us by 75% (they wanted like $600... I could be wrong though) and then you wont fail emissions when you get your safety and you will fail how it is now." We don't have emissions testing here. :lol:
I can see the manager is hearing all this yet says nothing. As the parts girl goes to get the "cadalladic convertor" I tell the girl "She has no clue what shes saying. That error is your O2 sensor." She tells me shes the original owner of her 2007 Explorer and it has 88K miles and shes never replaced it before. So I tell her "You wont fail the safety check and really you are just gonna get worse mileage. Go to a Ford dealer and get the OEM O2 sensors from there and save yourself $1000."
She was so happy (and cute) and offered to take me to lunch. Was a very nice lunch and I have her number as she wants to go out with me again.
Thanks Autozone and your incompetence. :wrench
So I get into this Autozone and was surprised to see 6 employees working, more surprised they were all female. Only ever seen one at an Autozone before. So I wait in line and there is a Spanish individual (in very broken english) that he needs to screw in his rear caliper for new pads. She wasn't understanding and was looking up new calipers, new pads etc etc. So I calmly say "He needs to rent the tool to compress rear calipers on Ford cars."
She gives me a blank stare and says something I just don't understand. I then realize she is either Indian or Pakistani and has very poor english as well. So I get to the parts rental thing they have on the counter and point out the tool. All smiles, everyones happy. I am thanked.
So I see the next lady and tell her what I need and I can see its not going anywhere, shes clueless. So while I let her run off and pull more parts (even though I said the part she wanted to pull wouldn't have it) I overhear another AZ employee telling another lady what her CEL code was. I recognized the code as a bad O2 code Mustang owners often get. The AZ girl tells this other girl "Yeah, that is means (just like that) your cadilladic convertor is bad and its expensive. See it cant store oxygen anymore to calitify the air through the injectors that combusulizes in the intake of the exhaust." ......
"See here it is and its expensive and then you have to go to the dealer to have them install it cause its a special $100,000 tool they have to put it in but the part is cheaper from us by 75% (they wanted like $600... I could be wrong though) and then you wont fail emissions when you get your safety and you will fail how it is now." We don't have emissions testing here. :lol:I can see the manager is hearing all this yet says nothing. As the parts girl goes to get the "cadalladic convertor" I tell the girl "She has no clue what shes saying. That error is your O2 sensor." She tells me shes the original owner of her 2007 Explorer and it has 88K miles and shes never replaced it before. So I tell her "You wont fail the safety check and really you are just gonna get worse mileage. Go to a Ford dealer and get the OEM O2 sensors from there and save yourself $1000."
She was so happy (and cute) and offered to take me to lunch. Was a very nice lunch and I have her number as she wants to go out with me again.
Thanks Autozone and your incompetence. :wrench
