Some peoples kids!

[screamin86]

wow what a piece lol

[jt1200r]

i went to a napa store to get ring bolts.i had a bolt with me . i tell the guy they're reverse thread he gets the nut display down,turns it around and tries to run it in a nut to see what thread it is. ive never been back there since

[Irish_Alley]

4th is overrated anyway

[slammed79]

Wanna make their head explode? Call up and ask for parts for an 83 Vette. It'll usually take about 3 Min before they say Umm I'm sorry, I don't show anything for your car.

[Blazin]

I mess with parts guys for my 55. I will go into Auto Zone and ask for parts for it. They look at me with this blank stare, then say our computers don't go back that far! Or I will ask for the engine year. Then they want to know what its in. Same with my Blazer. It has a TBI motor with a carbed intake. Thats sends them into a tail spin when ask for 1991 5.7 parts then I say the year of the Blazer is 1981!

[slammed79]

Though the Checker I used to work at ( Now Oreilly's) was stuffed with gearheads, except for our manager who was an old biker chick. We rarely screwed up a part.

None of us work at that store anymore and its gone way south.

[bowtieman82]

i went in looking for a gasket for carb, it came from a ford and the girl told me it wouldnt fit my truck cause it made for a ford, i ask her is it a four barrel gasket and she say yes for a ford i had to tell it it fits all four barrels not just fords while i was paying for it she help this guy out looking for a dome light for a 50's or 60's truck and the system couldnt find it and the girl helping him said we dont have one i took the guy over to where they have all the bulbs and showed him how to find one him self. told the girl she need to learn how to do her job and not depend on the computer to do it for her and go look for part on her own. i think they should make you take a test before working in a parts house to see if your know anything about cars. i hate going and have to tell them how to do there job.

[Irish_Alley]

they have test just not on cars its about doing whats right. ex. would you smoke pot on your lunch break, would you smoke it after work and so on and so on

[bowtieman82]

that good and all but they should see if you know anything about cars. you are selling car parts to people. you should know something, or just have them deliver, clean, run a register and not tell people what they need or anything. that why people who dont know anything go there is to get help, if the person helping you dont know why are they there, go work fast food or wal mart.  stay out of the automotive business.

[Irish_Alley]

they see customer service as #1, they kind of care if you know anything just not a top priority

[thirsty]

Not long ago I was looking for a right front wheel cylinder for our 71' Maverick. Nobody had one and I remembered that a good parts store had just opened a new store one town away. I know blazin has used Sanels before. I have in the past and was bummed when they were bought out in our area. Any way...I call up the store that I have never been in expecting to get the same caliber of knowledge that I did in the past. Man was I wrong. I got a kid on the phone that never heard of a Maverick. After I had him believing that there was such a car he told me that it was not even listed in their computer. I had to talk him into looking in a book. Still no listing for any such car. Then he asked me if I was sure of the name of the car. I asked him to get somebody else to help me. After a while he comes back and tells me that he talked to someone and told me that cars don't have front wheel cylinders and maybe I should take it to a garage for help!

[Irish_Alley]

lmao, so did you take it to a garage?

[Irish_Alley]

sure i told this before but i had this one woman come in to autozone and had a leak in her brake line told her what she needed to do. She didn’t want to do that she insisted that she could mend it with a piece of rubber hose. took all i had to not to call her dumb right there told her i wouldn’t sell it to her she got pissed and said i will go somewhere else so i wished her luck in my own way. Then i called all the local parts stores and described what this woman looked like and what she wanted and what she wanted it for. kind of black flagged her lol

[thirsty]

lmao, so did you take it to a garage?

No way Irish! When I found out that we had wrong parts in that car since 1971 I didn't dare drive it out of our shop for another opinion.

I ended up having the parts to rebuild the cylinder so I just took the time to do that.

I never called them for anything again although I probably still have an account with them from years ago.

[Blazin]

Sanels in Plymouth, and NAPA in Bristol are the two main parts places we use at the shop. I don't deal with Sanels as much.
 Must be a company wide policy. a bunch of times we have called up Sanels looking for parts for an older rig. Most times we get passed to Paul the manager, because the other dubs can't figure it out. He dubs around for a few minutes, and then tells us that rig is obsolete, we don't have that part, nobody carrys them any more! Then we call up NAPA and they can get it for us next day!