Another Canuck, so my prices are in Canadian dollars too. Hard to believe that a transmission for a light-duty vehicle would cost as much as one for a highway tractor.
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Quoth wolfie View PostAnother Canuck, so my prices are in Canadian dollars too. Hard to believe that a transmission for a light-duty vehicle would cost as much as one for a highway tractor.
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Quoth wolfie View PostSounds like the transmission cooler went bad - it's the only place where coolant and transmission fluid can get together.
You made me wonder so I actually checked the receipt... I forgot the other stuff that was in that 7k. The transmission cost me 5k, the tires were 1k and the miscellaneous other crap the dealership charged me TWO DAYS before the transmission blew was another 1k. SIGH...
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A known defect and they haven't recalled it?? Well, if it's non-accident causing, they probably wouldn't, but they should at least have offered a massive discount/done it for free (because it's literally their company's fault). It's not like an experienced dealer would have a legitimate excuse not to have access to that information."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Quoth EricKei View PostA known defect and they haven't recalled it?? Well, if it's non-accident causing, they probably wouldn't, but they should at least have offered a massive discount/done it for free (because it's literally their company's fault). It's not like an experienced dealer would have a legitimate excuse not to have access to that information.
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Stop shining that stupid laser pointer at other people's windows. Shouldn't you be in bed? Do you even go to school? I've seen you barreling over the wall of your porch to get in/out of the apartment during school hours. I guess that's better than slamming the door like you usually do. Where are your parents?
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I want to rip the stereos out of several of my neighbors' cars. Seriously, why do so many people think the entire world wants to hear their music? And why is it always rap or hip-hop? There is absolutely no reason I should be able to hear your stereo from inside my house with the windows closed at any time of day, let alone at 12:48 am as I did the other day, or at 8 am as I did a few weeks ago...and that guy doesn't even live here. His kid does, and he parks his car in the roadway and leaves it running with the stereo at top volume while he comes upstairs to get her.
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Another annoying tendency among rap fans: blaring their "music" on portable speakers or cell phones while walking or in stores so that everyone around them has to listen to THEIR selection."Crazy may always be open for business, but on the full moon, it has buy one get one free specials." - WishfulSpirit
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Oh, and I just experienced the loud music thing earlier, though it was some guy across the street. No one is impressed by his ability to overspend on speakers. Just the opposite, actually--if he spends a lot on the unnecessary, I'm not interested."Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably
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We had the one family in our apartment complex in CT who let their 4-year-old son run around the communal yard completely in the nude all summer long and pee wherever he felt like. They pitched a fit when another neighbor brought it to the attention of the university housing office (in charge of the complex) and the parents got in trouble. But they at least started putting underpants on their son and keeping him from urinating in the communal play area, which is really all the rest of us were asking for in the first place.
At our last place (apartment complex in NY), we didn't have any real complaints ourselves (well, except for the neighbor who ignored the "no hanging laundry outside" rule and draped their freshly-washed clothes on a rope line, a folding laundry rack, and every tree stump they could find). However we had a noise complaint called in against us by our downstairs neighbors. Apparently our children "ran around at all hours of the night," and we didn't find out until the management office told us about the complaint. At which point we explained that our girls were in bed by 8pm (quiet hours started at 10pm), and my husband and I walked as quietly as we could, so we had no idea what the downstairs neighbors were talking about. Thankfully nothing came of the complaint.
Now we're in our own house in a nice neighborhood with no real gripes, other than perhaps a slightly overzealous neighborhood watch (discussing in e-mail chains every tiny slightly suspicious detail, even when it turns out to be just another neighbor going about their business; I'm still waiting for a complaint to show up about me waiting at the street corner for my girls' school bus) and slightly overzealous dogs in the lot bordering our back fence (but their owners are nice and apologetic about the barking). The houses date to the 70's, and LOTS of original owners are still in the area, so it's rather quiet."Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
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My upstairs neighbors are some serious thumpers. Really, aren't these buildings made of concrete? I'm impressed at the noise but not in a good way. And it's really irritating at midnight, when I'm trying to sleep.
On the plus side, everyone winds up their parties by 11 PM. So at least music is never a problem.
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