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AnimeJ wrote:

Well, his parts markup is pretty high. He's charging you 35 bucks a plug. So he's overchaging the f*ck out of you on those. If he's getting them from Autozone or Advance, his price is gonna be 3 or 4 bucks per plug, or in other words less than 20 bucks for all four. So he's a massive douchebag in that regard. That's for iridium plugs, btw. As for the rest of it, here's about how it would have been written up at the shop I worked out for a while:

Plugs: $25 or so for all four
Wires: $60 for a set of plug wires
Ignition Coils: 1132: $75
1133: $80

So that's what, two hundred bucks in parts? You could literally walk into Autozone and pay those prices(tax included going by your not quite 7% tax rate) for everything he's charging you for. His labor rate doesn't seem too unreasonable; book hours for all of that is 2 or 3 hours, which is about what he's got listed(his labor rate looks to be 60 or 70 per hour). Sadly, that's the only reasonable thing about this guy

What AnimeJ said. Is your car a luxury brand, and were those parts OEM? I can see prices like that if they were Mercedes parts or something, but for generic, those prices are crazy.

Whoops, just saw that it was a 2001 Camry. Yeah, that's a douchey markup.

That's nothing. Look what Moggy has to go through just for an A/C repair:

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Jalopnik[/url]]So, first thing you see when you see the state of this R8? Well we thought that they must have been doing a turbo conversion.. Nope.. This is what you need to do, to do the "simple" task of REPLACING THE AIR CONDITIONING COMPRESSOR! WTF?!

They always get you on the labour.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I would have just cracked a window.

sometimesdee wrote:
AnimeJ wrote:

Well, his parts markup is pretty high. He's charging you 35 bucks a plug. So he's overchaging the f*ck out of you on those. If he's getting them from Autozone or Advance, his price is gonna be 3 or 4 bucks per plug, or in other words less than 20 bucks for all four. So he's a massive douchebag in that regard. That's for iridium plugs, btw. As for the rest of it, here's about how it would have been written up at the shop I worked out for a while:

Plugs: $25 or so for all four
Wires: $60 for a set of plug wires
Ignition Coils: 1132: $75
1133: $80

So that's what, two hundred bucks in parts? You could literally walk into Autozone and pay those prices(tax included going by your not quite 7% tax rate) for everything he's charging you for. His labor rate doesn't seem too unreasonable; book hours for all of that is 2 or 3 hours, which is about what he's got listed(his labor rate looks to be 60 or 70 per hour). Sadly, that's the only reasonable thing about this guy

What AnimeJ said. Is your car a luxury brand, and were those parts OEM? I can see prices like that if they were Mercedes parts or something, but for generic, those prices are crazy.

Whoops, just saw that it was a 2001 Camry. Yeah, that's a douchey markup.

Even for a Mercedes or BMW, he's still looking at at least double the walk out cost from any parts house.

Coldstream wrote:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I would have just cracked a window.

There are actually a lot of vehicles that you have to pull body panels off to get access to A/C pressure lines. There are some manufacturers that actually put the ports in fender wells in order to make even basic recharge/pressure check services a massive undertaking.

I cringed.

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To add insult to injury, the driver of this 2013 Ferrari FF (MSRP $295,000) got a ticket for double parking.

Though I'd think he could have afforded a parking garage...

They were just trying to make the front end as ugly as the back end ;).

sometimesdee wrote:

I cringed.

To add insult to injury, the driver of this 2013 Ferrari FF (MSRP $295,000) got a ticket for double parking.

Though I'd think he could have afforded a parking garage...

The Ferrari station wagon is one exotic I don't mind seeing flattened by a box truck.

Evo wrote:
sometimesdee wrote:

I cringed.

To add insult to injury, the driver of this 2013 Ferrari FF (MSRP $295,000) got a ticket for double parking.

Though I'd think he could have afforded a parking garage...

The Ferrari station wagon is one exotic I don't mind seeing flattened by a box truck.

You shooting brake haters would not be welcomed at jalopnik.com.

sometimesdee wrote:

To add insult to injury, the driver of this 2013 Ferrari FF (MSRP $295,000) got a ticket for double parking.

SCENARIO A: Box truck backs up blindly into $300,000 Ferrari that was stopped behind it.
RESPONSE: My sympathies go out to the unfortunate Ferrari owner.

SCENARIO B: Box truck backs into double-parked $300,000 Ferrari.
RESPONSE: No sympathy for Ferrari owner who thinks he/she's so important that parking rules don't apply to them.

Well, insurance should cover him either way; box truck driver is at fault. But he's definitely a douchebag for being double-parked.

ButtonMasher wrote:

SCENARIO B: Box truck backs into double-parked $300,000 Ferrari.
RESPONSE: No sympathy for Ferrari owner who thinks he/she's so important that parking rules don't apply to them.

Hence my comment about him being able to afford a parking garage.

Evo wrote:
sometimesdee wrote:

I cringed.

To add insult to injury, the driver of this 2013 Ferrari FF (MSRP $295,000) got a ticket for double parking.

Though I'd think he could have afforded a parking garage...

The Ferrari station wagon is one exotic I don't mind seeing flattened by a box truck.

Agreed. The fewer of these that exist, the better the world is.

Coldstream wrote:
Evo wrote:
sometimesdee wrote:

I cringed.

To add insult to injury, the driver of this 2013 Ferrari FF (MSRP $295,000) got a ticket for double parking.

Though I'd think he could have afforded a parking garage...

The Ferrari station wagon is one exotic I don't mind seeing flattened by a box truck.

Agreed. The fewer of these that exist, the better the world is.

I'm not sure how the existence of a Ferrari hatchback/station wagon makes the world a better or worse place. I understand disliking people who double park but it's a station wagon. I don't see it as any different than a BMW or Cadillac wagon. Both of which I looked at buying. People with families can't drive a sporty car?

EvilHomer3k wrote:

I'm not sure how the existence of a Ferrari hatchback/station wagon makes the world a better or worse place. I understand disliking people who double park but it's a station wagon. I don't see it as any different than a BMW or Cadillac wagon. Both of which I looked at buying. People with families can't drive a sporty car?

It's not a station wagon, it's a shooting brake.

Come on, thought you guys were car peeps

MannishBoy wrote:
EvilHomer3k wrote:

I'm not sure how the existence of a Ferrari hatchback/station wagon makes the world a better or worse place. I understand disliking people who double park but it's a station wagon. I don't see it as any different than a BMW or Cadillac wagon. Both of which I looked at buying. People with families can't drive a sporty car?

It's not a station wagon, it's a shooting brake.

Come on, thought you guys were car peeps ;)

I didn't (originally) call it a wagon. Just responding to others. I don't really care if it is a wagon or shooting brake.

EvilHomer3k wrote:

I didn't (originally) call it a wagon. Just responding to others. I don't really care if it is a wagon or shooting brake.

I'm kidding. It's an obscure type of car most people don't understand. But that's definitely a shooting brake. And I don't hate it.

I've never heard the term "shooting brake" before.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I've never heard the term "shooting brake" before.

That's probably because there aren't that many made any more.

It's basically a kind of wagon. In a modern sense, it's a hybrid somewhere between a wagon and a hatch.

Off the top of my head, you could look at the Hyundai Veloster and the Volvo C30 as a couple of others.

I worked in market research focusing mostly on the automobile industry for many years. Part of my job was to codify every single car in production for our company. I have also never heard of shooting brake before, lol.

EvilHomer3k wrote:

I don't see it as any different than a BMW or Cadillac wagon. Both of which I looked at buying. People with families can't drive a sporty car?

People with families don't usually buy 2-door station wagons.

EvilHomer3k wrote:
Coldstream wrote:

Agreed. The fewer of these that exist, the better the world is.

I'm not sure how the existence of a Ferrari hatchback/station wagon makes the world a better or worse place. I understand disliking people who double park but it's a station wagon.

Theeeeeerrrrrreee it is. Yes, theeerrreee it is.

Station wagons are second only to minivans in the pantheon of Vehicles-That-Coldstream-Wants-To-Set-On-Fire.

I really dislike Porches anyway so the fact that he was double parked makes me say double eff off to this guy.

and double post for this guy for some reason

JillSammich wrote:

I really dislike Porches anyway so the fact that he was double parked makes me say double eff off to this guy.

You need to look at the picture again.

JillSammich wrote:

I really dislike Porches anyway so the fact that he was double parked makes me say double eff off to this guy.

That was the Ferrari FF.
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now I feel dumb. I meant to type ferrari and my fingers typed Porche anyway. not a big fan of either to be honest.

To be completely honest, it was a typo. that I keep making... but I don't take it seriously enough to really mind.

EDIT: really not trying to offend anyone or start a huge argument. really.

JillSammich wrote:

now I feel dumb. I meant to type ferrari and my fingers typed Porche anyway. not a big fan of either to be honest.

You do know it's Porsche, not Porche, right?

JillSammich wrote:

I really dislike Porches anyway so the fact that he was double parked makes me say double eff off to this guy.

double eff to the FF!