Er ahhh my air filter is dirty....thats why its making that funny lopey sound

 

Don't go bashing on the Autozone clerks, I worked at Autozone my first 2 years of college. I meet several girls through Autozone, one of my ex (she was very hot) came in asking what kind of oil her Ford Tempo held. I sold her a quart of oil and she came back in telling me that she can not see the oil on the dipstick, I'm ok you might need another quart. She came back in a third time saying see can not see the oil, at this point I am wtf this car only holds 4 quarts, so I follow her out to her car and to see what the deal is, of course her boyfriend was out there. She showed me the so called dipstick (the oil cap), I told her that is the oil cap, you need to check the dipstick, here response was, that is what she was told (by her then boyfriend). I said to her "he is a f**king dumb a$$ss, don't listen to him", right in front of him. I checked the engine oil and it was black, very black, and about 1 1/2 quarts too full, she needed an oil change plus something else. The next day she came back into Autozone asking if I could change the oil in her car, the quick oil change places wanted $50 to change the oil. I gave her my address and home phone number and told her I would not get off until 6 pm, truly guys I did not get off until 6. Nothing happened that night, but the next day I worked the evening shift from 5-11 (closing), when I came in my manager told me that some girl was calling up there for me. She came in about 10:30 asking for lense tape because her ex-boyfriend took a baseball bat to the backend of her car, and a year later we broke up because I went off to Texas A&M.

But that is not say about some clerks, I remember a fellow clerk (he still works there 10 years later) telling me his friend has Monte Carlo with a 454 that will run low 10s (no NOS, no FI) and it has a stock 700r4, complete full of . There are a lot of clerks (guys) who should not be working at Autozone because 99% of all women know more about cars than they do.

I remember another customer (this time it was a guy), he had a K&N airfilter already in his truck, but instead of buying the recharge kit, he bought a whole new filter. He also left the old filter behind for use to throw away for him, that was the easiest $30 dollars I ever made.

 

Haha. I know a few other members that worked at parts stores but i know they know a whole lot more than that dumb ***** the other night.

 

I sold parts for 4 years. I've seen just about it all in that field. 6 months for Advance Auto parts and 3.5 years for Carquest. Retail sucks. Carquest is 90% wholesale so I didn't have to deal with the morons too often. On the other hand I didn't have too many damsels in distress come in for help. Accept for my now-wife. She worked next door and would come over to use our coke machine

 

ding, fries are done!

 

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aahhhh the ole "use our coke machine" excuse. MMM hhmmm, she had you nailed from the first coke.

I know a handful of trans guys and some mechanics that cuss carquest guys quiet a bit. I was at my buddies trans shop and he was fighting this front axel change and the carquest driver comes in with this axel...the THIRD time. Ron says, it's same GO#!$&* part number!!!! YOu F$!#&*! idiots, I want my core back. Sorry sir, they already took the cores out for pick ups. He threw the new axel out in the parking lot, LOL it was so funny. Ron is such a teddy bear guy. The axel had whooped his ***. Anyway, he says out of 20 parts calls a day, at least 8 are wrong due to salesman error.

 

I love messing with them. When I had to replace my starter I wasnt really in the mood at first so I just told him a starter for a 2002 (so he would know it was a Gen III) V-8, 1/2 ton. He HAD to know what engine. OK here we go 6.0. 5 min he looks Umm sir I dont see a 6.0 in a 1/2 ton, well thatas whats in there you have to have. Went around with him about 20 min before I told him just give me a starter for a 5.3, then he argued cause I had the 6.0, and it wouldnt work

 

 

That's funny. She was married at the time. I never spoke to her until a friend hooked us up 2 years later. She asked me out though. I didn't have the nuts....Lets just say I married up! 1slow01z71 can vouch for that.

You find stupid parts guys everywhere you go. Problem is they won't pay enough to keep the good ones. People who are smart enough to do the job right are also smart enough to get a job paying 3x as much. If a shop wanted to get the right parts 99.9% of the time they would have to pay 2x the price for the parts. Nature of economics. So actually they really don't mind having to deal with the morons when it comes down to it because then they'd be bitching about price.
FWIW- if it was a chyrsler product there is no telling which part would work. I've seen them change a half shaft 3x in a model year but the parts books only list one. It isn't always the parts man's fault. Many times it is a computer's fault. The book has more acurate info and whoever copied the info from the manufacture's books to the computer often leaves out valuable info because they no nothing about auto parts or they are lazy.