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Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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I always say of a job “The last twenty minutes takes four hours” to summarise late discoveries which challenge timely completion.
This Alfa is true to form, it’s hatched a misfire which I reckon is coil packs. I’ll clean the plugs tonight but not optimistic. If I’m lucky, the fellow at Cromer will have some OEM Bosch available tomorrow morning. Genuine boxed are $500 apiece over the counter at Alfa dealers, and there’s four of them… Car leaves my hands by tomorrow evening. |
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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…True to form, the flat spare was not five years of being ignored but a fractured brass shell in the valve stem.
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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I had 1 thing to do today. My mum is overseas, my brother and sister had to work, same as my aunty and my 3 cousins. Other then my grandma, I was the only other with the free time. So it still is my grandpas 97th birthday. Reason why I didn't make it down to visit was that lovely sweet sweet smell of coolant.
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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An honourable mention to Valeo alternators with the stator bedded in RTV.
If you need to R&R the stator, it takes 20 minutes of perseverance, then some cleaning up to remove nearly all the silicone. Then you sit the stator back in the front shell, carefully checking and marking its alignment. Next - there’s a fine rubber ring about 1mm across by 3mm tall - you need to poke this evenly down in the front housing around the stator until it registers on the bottom of its machined lip. This centres the stator, and you now fill the tapered gap between it and the front housing with new neutral cure RTV. I honestly doubt in most usage conditions, that it’s any better than a regular setup where the stator is just roughly clamped into the housings by bolt tension. These alternators compare poorly to Mitsubishi of the same era, for serviceability. |
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Anything I find is handed into the nearest police station, much easier with no hassles.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Perth
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I bloody hate customers that make a booking, agree to a time, dont turn up for their booking cos they slept in, then proceed to give me a 1 star google review because i couldn’t get them in later in the day…..
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Yeah, that'd suck! Is there opportunity to reply to their rating to explain the circumstances from your end?
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Yes, have done so. Still doesnt help your overall Google ratings tho!
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try talking to google
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I always check the lower reviews to find out why. More often than not it's the customer that caused issue.
If doctors and other professionals charge for missed/cancelled appointments, maybe reply to disingenuous reviews with a kind disregard for the review. A customer can screw you once, a bad customer will screw you twice. |
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Can't get you out of my head.........nah nah nah......nah nah nah nah.
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Half **** pictures posted online, taken in portrait mode.
FFS turn the phone camera 90 deg.
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Or videos taken in Portrait mode - I cant watch them
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There is a clear change where this is now more acceptable due to how many people are watching crap on their phones. Portrait content for portrait device. Still ****s me. Landscape is natural. Our eyes are not on top of each other, they are side by side. |
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Gutted.
Spent hours over 2 days trying to secure Paul McCartney tix only to miss out. Adelaide Ent Centre - 8000 tix - **** me. Disappointed and annoyed. And now ABC radio talking up how great this one will be being indoors and small crowd. *Radio Off* ![]() (this emoji reminds me of Slowsnake) |
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Had to be evacuated from our hotel at midnight in Lucerne Switzerland.
Idiot 2 rooms down was drying clothing on a lamp which caught fire. Alarm going off, I take a quick look in the hallway, lots of smoke and people running for the stairs. Grabbed my back pack, wallet, phone and passport and bolted. Fire brigade rocked up, all sorted, back to bed an hour later. Couldn't sleep of course.
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#5158 | ||
Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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I pulled my finger out yesterday and stopped procrastinating. Now i have nothing to complain about.
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DIY Tragic
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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I have somehow managed to brick my laptop during an Ubuntu update. Usual process is to create a startup disk and boot from USB. That didn't work so did inplace upgrade and same ****.
I know it's something to do with the video card because I can login via terminal and the boot splash is new but after a hundred commands later no dice so going to try to go back to Win7 then try again to reset it again. |
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