Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Walmart

O'Reilly's sprung up around here over night it seems. I love their marketing tactics. Find an auto zone and open one up as close as you can to it. Now Advance is moving in. As for as independents they use to be one on every corner. Now the only one I know of is about 15 miles away. If I am going in that direction and need a part I try and buy it from him but most of the time he is just to far away. Since I am getting to fat and old to do a hell of lot of mechanical work on my cars and don't know how to fix a lot on these newer one I looked around for a decent place to work on mine. It took me a while and a few scewings but I finally found a guy I like. The problem is he is an old man and I don't know how much longer he is going to be able to work on them. Example I have a Celica and my radiator went out on it.The damn plastic aluminum piece of crap. I tried two or three things and they did nothing. Took the car to a radiator shop where I got a big grin on a guys face because he saw what I tried to do and said you can't fix them things. $350 and we will put a new one in for you. I price it and it was going to cost me about $230 to do it myself and I agreed with the man at the radiator shop it looked like a pain in the rear to take it out. I took it to Butch he had it about a week and when he called me he said I better be sitting down because it was high. He charged me $265. $35 more dollars then doing it myself. I figured it save me a whole days work, busted knuckles and losing my religion. The only problem I had with him is when I took my Gremlin to have some work done on it. He kept it about three weeks. When I picked it up it had almost a full tank of gas in it and it was at a half when I took it to him. I noticed he had put about 150 miles on it too. I was a little tick off until he told me what he had done. He said he took it for a long test drive and showed it to some of his buddies. He said he put gas in it. He talked about it like it was a long lost friend. I couldn't be mad at guy for showing off my baby.