Thread 28574967

The normies are catching on

>Autozone
>$26
Better be the fucking OEM filter for that price

>>28574970
It's called (((inflation))), goy.

>>28574970
It was a cabin air filter if that makes any difference

>he doesn't buy his filters straight from the manufacturer
kek nut gonna make it b

>buying denso crap in 2025
>paying import taxes for weeb denso even
Shitso is washed they don't make good quality products anymore same reason Toyota has gone to shit.

>>28574979
>>28574985
I replaced my cabin air filter at Autozone a month ago and it cost $13. How the hell did she come up with that number?

>>28574988
Now with cockroaches!

>>28575118
Women are easier to trick with that shit.

>>28574990


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=objCSQeJLxI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5VCOGwstEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAlTo5PEw2M

According to The Science, you're wrong.
Their crap is no less crappy than anyone else's crap in the market today. Right up there at the peaks of crap mountain vying with the other top crap, if you will.

>>28574967 (OP)
This kills the mechanic jew.

>>28574988
>comes pee-stained from the factory
It had better come with used, signed pantsu from the perpetrator

Wait until they do their own oil

>>28575118
Cabin air filters are the biggest dealer/mechanic scam out there. I had to have the dealer put a battery in my truck recently due to battery management bullshit that's a pain in the ass to reset without the factory computer, and they tried to talk me into like $150 for a cabin filter while I was there. I went to Autozone, paid less than $20 for one that's literally the same thing as the OEM (same supplier), and it took 5 minutes and 4 screws to install.

Installing a cabin filter in 2003+ GMT800 was pain in the neck

>>28575152
Too difficult for them. They'll just fuck it up.

>>28575169

>Took 4 screws to install

Thats where they think they got ya... It's complex because it involves turning a screwdriver. Unfortunately a lot of John Q Public are too dumb / intimidated to do something as 'complex' as turning a screwdriver. / even checking the user manual to see how 'nothing' it is to deal with... I used to have friends (male) afraid of changing a tire, and I've had to teach them

Loosen lugnuts
Lift
Remove lugs
pull off / beat off tire
apply spare reversing process...

>>28574967 (OP)
They won't fix shit lol, most zoomers are WAAAYYYYYY too incompetent.

>>28574985
the cabin air filter for my car is like $80 lmao

>>28574967 (OP)
Recession indicator.

>>28574967 (OP)
how about i whap it on the side of your car a few times and wipe the case with a paper towel for a date? desu she's gotta pay, I don't have a job.

>>28575221
First time I tried to do my own oil everything went well until the filter. The chain mechanic that did it last tightened that thing with the strength of Hercules. It even stripped my filter wrench. Doesn't help that the 5VZ-FE puts their filter in a miserable spot to reach. I consider any premium I pay on oil changes to be well worth it for that truck.

>>28574967 (OP)
you could honestly never change the air filter on a modern car and it would run for 500,000 miles without any issue

>>28575393
Two types of zoomer. One is fucked and will die, the other is somewhat less fucked and might not die. Be the second.

>>28575466
yeah. you can clean them lmao, fram are lifetime, but you're supposed to clean them

>>28575466
Or I can not be poor and just slap on a new filter.

>>28575463
>he doesn't use an impact wrench on his oil filter
do you want it to fall off?

>>28575152
I could but I use it as an excuse to have a professional lift the fucker and check it out in detail.
I consider it like visiting a dentist, I don't need one to keep my teeth clean but I appreciate the experienced eye and expensive tools.

>>28575473
just slap it on the ground like 10x and you're good for another 50k

>>28575491
Again I'm not poor
Your shit is still dirty

>>28575498
right, but I guess you need more money becauae you're so retarded

>>28575476
anon did mention 5vzfe. if it's in a tacoma, the only way to get an impact would be the wheel well. unless he can get a filter cup with a hex fitting on it and hope that the cup housing doesn't snap

>>28575473
>>28575491
i hate when car places open my air filters. i know they are fucking with it 100% to get me to buy another one. i know when my car smells different. i don't want to look like a crazy person and tell them don't open it though...

>>28574990
Denso has never done me wrong.
Better than AC Delco, MOOG, or any of the GM or Ford OEM stuff.

>>28574970
>hyundai
you dont want the OEM one

>>28575483
have a professional.. kek my first day out of highschool I was changing oil. Do it yourself or just admit to being a wrenchlet.

>>28575394
Yeh. At least it's easy to replace.

>>28575393
>millenials accusing zoomers of being incompetent while also being the demographic that caused cars to have massive tablet screens

>>28575825
>caused
Always thought it was the (boomer-infested) government

>>28575841
At this point I'm not sure. Boomers worship technology because they are lead poisoned retards who don't understand how it works (despite growing up alongside the progress of digital technology in its entirety) and think it's magic, but all the millenials i see exhibit the same reliance on getting spoonfed by technology, just from a place of apathy and sloth instead of awe. I think the gene pool would be cleaned up significantly if ChatGPT told people hemlock is an essential oil

>>28575122
>Now with cockroaches!

Not so fast! 死の次元に追放されたゴキブリ!

https://youtu.be/ySuGcQytTnc

>>28575118
I went to autozone yesterday and bought some valve stems. Self checkout was closed. The guy ringing me up tried to charge me $60 like I wouldnt notice that valve stems are only $7 on the shelf price Fuck autozone.

>>28575466
Yeah bro just keep breathing in dust pollen and rat shit debris for the next 500000 miles

>my Passat shows error of "Parking brake fault!"
>go to mechanic
>"Uhhh this will require changing the parking brake, that's going to be minimum $1000 repair
>look it up online
>turns out all I needed was replace the actual park button which was like 20 bucks and 10 minutes of work
I swear learning how to use Google effectively killed 90% of the mechanic's income. Fucking parasite ass profession.

>>28574970
The ball joints for my foxbody were listed at $63/pc at AutoZone, with the cheaper ones on special order. Went and ordered skf ones for $6.50 a piece online

>>28574967 (OP)
All dealers do this shit. It takes longer to put the shit back in my glovebox and arrange it than it does to take all the shit out and change the filter. The "hardest" part of the engine air filter is not getting distracted by other shit in the engine bay.

>Be me
>On the phone
>Just got an oil change the day before
>Bought the cabin air filter because guy gave it to me "at cost" which was like $14
>it did look rough and I didn't want to fuck with replacing it
>Go home
>Thinking about the oil change
>Did the guy even open up the air box???
>Start getting pissed off thinking that he scammed me, didn't even put in air filter
>As I'm checking the air filter, two people walk passed me to my front door
>"Who are you people?"
>Continues walking to front door
>"Oh we're just some friendly neighbors, here to see your wife"
>Back and forth like this for probably 45 seconds till I fucking lose it
>"WHo the fuck are you? And who are you with????"
>"We're Jehova's witnesses"
>Continue to berate off my property
>Buddy on the phone, "WTAF WAS ALL THAT?!?!?"
>Turns out, they did replace the air filter. Was brand new

I had some family members get royally fucked over by the JW's and it tore a part of my family apart. Fuck them.

mechanic prices are the price you pay for being a normie faggot ass wrenchlet incapable of turning two screws or unlatching a tab. fool/their money and allat

>>28575498
dirty filters work better, the air they pass gets cleaner and cleaner up until the point they rupture from too high a pressure differential

>>28576531
12 months? Shit son, my filter came with the truck back in 2008. I pull it out and knock the leaves out of it every couple of years.

>>28576648
Same, my truck is five years old, and so is the filter that came with it. I just run a shop vac over the filter and it's as good as new. Dealers just really like changing things that don't need it early and not changing things early that should be late. My manual says every 5k miles for oil, I do every 3k.

>>28576611
>I had some family members get royally fucked over by the JW's
Could you please tell more about it? I know one JW and he seems pretty nice. I never interacted with their kind in the wild, though.

>>28576671
Long story short, my cousin(call her R) was in an extremely abusive relationship with another JW(she was raised as one also). Always getting her ass beat. Finally R decides to leave the guy. The church excommunicates her. Her sister(my other cousin, call her L) totally disowns her, and pretty much the rest of the family because of it. R comes to family gatherings, but L never does because R is likely to be there. My sister ended up buying a house literally 200 feet from L, and L never even would wave at my sister. Then my sister and her son(my nephew) were killed in a car crash, and L acted like she was going to be a member of the family, but really doesn't make any effort. My nephew never even got to meet that part of the family, and they were literally a footballs throw away.

>>28576671
Not that guy but its brainwashing cult. Each "kingdom" is its own little sect. Member give all their property to the kingdom and they then provide for them. Lets say your children don't want to be in this sect anymore and leave which is gonna be hard because lol no money, kingdom will exile them and no one is allowed to talk to them, even the parents and if found out will get punished or exiled as well but remember all their shit belongs to the kingdom so good luck.

>>28576689
>>28576693
i fucking hate religious fundies so much, not religious people but the actual cultists
imagine causing all that pain and sorrow for literally nothing, you go in the same ground as everybody else
you die, meet the same god as charles and ranjeesh and matmut and m'gumbe and find out you were all fucking wrong anyway

>>28576693
>>28576727
iirc there have been incidents where a blood transfusion would save someone's life, but the parents being JW forbade it. they'd rather ser their own kids die, it's insane

>>28575885
Why do you have rats making nests in your car?

>>28576727
Yeah, and I go to church, but I would never knock on someone's fucking door and ask about something as sacred as their religion to attempt to convert them. My wife always gets anxious when she sees them in the neighborhood because she knows how I feel about them.

>>28576611
You need some balls and some help, should have told them to fuck off right when they showed up if you didn't know who they were.

>>28576884
>sacred
>religion

Pick one, they both suck. Kill yourself

>>28574990
so washed fr fr no cap

>>28576879


They're in your car too anon.

>>28576906
none are more ideologically compromised than those who think themselves 'non-ideological'

>>28576901
This wasn't some drawn out interaction retard.
>>28576906
2edgy4me

>>28576953
Sure, but I would have flashed my piece the moment they said they were JWs to make sure they don't come back. Cultists that can't take a hint from my woman that they're not welcome don't deserve any better.

>>28576953
>I just let anyone walk on my property with whatever intent they have because im not a man and I dont know how to properly be an adult

I hope your family gets robbed and shot. But mostly you for what little hope this planet has left. Again, kill yourself. Later, bitch.

Still wish you would kill yourself

>>28576962
3edgy5me

>>28576976
>t. scared cultist

>>28576972
Lol. Lmao even.

>>28574970
As someone who works at a local extortion auto, they didnt have the normal one in stock and sold her the premium

>>28574970
$3.87 on rock auto

>>28576727
>>28576869
Only reason i looked into them was because 2 of my classmates were JW. They told me about the blood thing. Okay whatever but they didn't go to school trips because they aren't really supposed to interact with outsiders. Only reason really why they even went to school is the "laws of the land" demand it. If we didn't have a law that demanded everyone needs to be in school until age 18 they would've probably be homeschooled.
Real fucking disgusting shit comes from the JW's past. It started with some pastor reading the bible and saying "on this year 1911 its gonna be end of the year" but it didn't happen so oops it was actually 1914. WWI started and oh boy he must be right but again no rapture happened to again date was pushed to 1915,1916 and then 1918. War ended and then it was 1921. At some point the original pastor died and some greedy fuck took over and believers started to give their shit to the JW. in great depression most JW believers lived in tents and starving while management was buying villas in LA. This doomsday thing ended after WWII and whole "church" has memoryholed it as much as they can out of embarrassment.

>>28576906
I, too, remember being 12 years old

>>28576469
Yup rock auto had the entire front suspension assembly (except the forged knuckle and torsion bar springs) for my S10… including front wheel hubs and turn buckle assembly. $385 shrimped.

>>28576972
>how to properly be an adult
Look who's talking.

>>28574970
Baby steps for the normies

>>28574990
Denso-ten is based as shit my radiator and A/C compressor fuck hard

>>28576972
>>28576962
>>28576901
N

>>28578329
J

>>28578329
>>28578537
Turnpike

>>28578738
lol

>>28574967 (OP)
Ok now tell me how many thousand miles that bitch was late for her oil change

>$87 down to $25
>$62 saved is spent in a week on pumpkin spice lattes
Why are millennials like this?

>>28578892
Pumpkin spice lattes are so bomb though when they smell my whole car up

>>28574967 (OP)
>>28574970
Should have just ordered from Amazon for same day delivery for $10. kek

>>28574967 (OP)
>be car salesman
>sell used 3 yr old f-150 yesterday that had been regularly serviced its entire life through us
>"what was the front on that boss?"
>"$-1,513"
>"WTF HOW!?"
>shop bill: rotate tires, alignment, cabin filter, oil filter, front plate bracket - basically needed nothing
>billed for 8 hours of labor at $200/hr
>...8 hours of labor
>...to replace a plate bracket and replace a filter

I fully support you all driving prices down. Wrenchcels deserve upside-down crucifixion.

>>28578892
>pumpkin spice lattes
I swear I only splurge on the most decadent of craft beers.

>>28578892
>spend more money to end up with exactly the same result (changed filter)
>spend money on product you otherwise wouldn't have had

Nice strawman with the generic millennial stereotype. It doesn't matter if she literally burned the savings, she came out ahead in time alone considering she didn't have to sit in the shop's waiting area for 2 hours while the mechanics dicked around.

>>28579055
You'd be surprised how easy it is to run it up at the stealership over stupid shit when you go through them, I've been quoted $1000+ over four Falken 195/65/15 tires that I can get for like $400 on Amazon and then mount em up for $139.99 at said stealership, certain things are actually competitively priced at the stealership like fluid changes and batteries for some reason, but I wouldn't get parts from them unless you want a warranty on the part and it's a labor intensive thing where a re-do would kill you financially.

>>28579187
>certain things are actually competitively priced at the stealership like fluid changes and batteries for some reason,
small shit like that are loss leaders to bring customers in, in the hopes that they also buy other, more expensive shit while they're there.

>>28580002
I can't knock em for it, cars are bullshit to work on and they gotta make money and keep their doors open and keep me in their doors.

>>28580006
just know that the tech that works on your car usually gets a sliver of the money you pay for the job