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My ADT smoke alarm keeps sending false signals to the fire department. Now ADT wants to charge me $45.00 per false alarm call. I told them I can assure you I’m not feeling any warmth whatsoever and the house is not in a ball of flames. SO your equipment failed twice!
Turns out the battery was weak and sent out false signals. Fee waived ;-) |
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09-10-2014, 04:41 PM | #1124 |
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I'm looking for a new job as we speak (LA / Orange County area, anybody looking for techs?)... But what started out as a plush job where I had my own office, a huge corner desk, the fastest desktop in the school (it had 12GB RAM, Core i7 and SSD... I even snuck COD on it ) and executive-grade leather office seat, then to my own open cubicle since the dude can't make rent and we had to downsize to a MUCH smaller area and sat in the cheapest office chair you can get at Office Depot... and with the addition of one more work/study student, now I don't have a desk at all and sitting on a plain plastic chair and getting work done on my laptop and the person occupying my desk isn't even all that computer literate .
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09-11-2014, 11:02 AM | #1126 |
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Had to take a post coffee dump at work this morning. The restroom on my floor was closed for cleaning, so I figure I can wait a bit till they get done. 10 mins later still not done, so I had to walk up the stairs to the third floor.
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09-11-2014, 11:48 AM | #1128 |
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Yeah, my sphincter psi went up 10-fold when my BMW warranty expired..
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09-11-2014, 11:55 AM | #1130 | |
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When I thought my right front hub was spent the other day, I looked up the parts on autohaus az, would have been $97 for a *** OEM bearing (BMW list is $294), and another $4 per bolt times 4. Inconvenient, sure. Hardly worth getting a new car over. Turns out to be a screw in the tire, not the bearing. Life goes on. LOL the forum *** out the brand of bearing. It's F. It's A. It's G. That's the brand. |
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09-11-2014, 11:57 AM | #1131 | |
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09-11-2014, 12:05 PM | #1132 |
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Here's a really unusual concept. If something breaks on a car, it stinks. If it's a BMW, this is what I had in mind when I got a thud thud thud noise on the way to work the other day:
Balance of savings account before going to work: $48,327.98. Bearing failure: $93.81 for the bearing, $4.15 x 4 for the one-time use bolts, free shipping, no tax. That's $110.41 for the parts I need. Downtime may be 2 wks. or more before I can do it, because we're going away this weekend. My bank account is going to be hit and have a balance of $42,217.57 as a result of being out of warranty. That's kind of how it works, when you have no warranty, you pay out of pocket for repairs. My Nissan has been out of warranty for 11 1/2 yrs. now. It's not very scary or dramatic. |
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09-11-2014, 12:08 PM | #1133 | |
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I just spent $1,300 on my 1998 Nissan. That is the first time since 1998 that anything cost more than $699 (that was the exhaust when it was 12 y.o.). |
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I just have to find a good mechanic other than BMW for maintenance. There really isn’t anything out there that compares to driving the Z. This car is a blast to drive! |
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09-11-2014, 12:31 PM | #1135 | |
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I did the plugs and coils for around $300. BMW helped me out with a $1,300 bill for the remaining repairs. I would have loved to have a warranty at that time. Instead, my bank was my warranty fund. Sad day. |
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09-11-2014, 12:36 PM | #1136 | |
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Balance before going to work = $48,327.98 New bank balance as a result of being out of warranty = $42,217.57 Difference as a result of being out of warranty per bank = $6,110.41 What you thought it was going to cost = $110.41 Additional cash outlay for driving a BMW = $6,000.00 See! The BMW got you again...and this much only for a bearing failure. Imagine how much it might cost to replace the wiper blades when they go! |
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09-11-2014, 12:41 PM | #1138 | |
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I've done a VCG on the inline 6 before. I got way to frustrated with getting the valve cover out because its fucking wedged in there so tight, and busted some things along the way. I didn't want to go down that road again. |
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09-11-2014, 01:18 PM | #1139 |
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I've been out of warranty since 2010. I literally put a piece of electrical tape on the dash to hide the damn SES light. Down to 18MPG when the wife drives it, but I still get about 23.
Only spent about $300 this year outside of the rearview mirror the wife smashed with her purse. For that, my son plays ball with the son of the local parts manager, and I got a mirror for $125. |
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Fortunately, I haven't had to do any more repairs and it's now 42k miles since last year, so there's that at least.
Although, my first world problem, as I was leaving my appointment yesterday, I noticed a pretty decent scrap across my front bumper from what appeared to be a white car. I looked at all the white cars in my apartment complex but nobody had red paint on their bumper. I'm pretty upset by this. One thing after another. |
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