What did you do today non-detailing related?

School holidays + the first sunny day in a while meant all the grumpy old ladies decided to come through the doors today.

If it's not enough having screaming kids crawling all over the place (we do mini golf as a way of supplementing the core business), having to contend with cranky old ladies who think it's their right to be rude and ignorant made for a frustrating day.

One woman asked me "are you just the cleaner or do you know anything?". Clearly my attempts in growing a beard to look older and more knowledgeable are not working.
 
[mention]John U [/mention] hopefully that’s not your washing hand. Wishing you a proper and speedy recovery.


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DFB said:
School holidays + the first sunny day in a while meant all the grumpy old ladies decided to come through the doors today.

If it's not enough having screaming kids crawling all over the place (we do mini golf as a way of supplementing the core business), having to contend with cranky old ladies who think it's their right to be rude and ignorant made for a frustrating day.

One woman asked me "are you just the cleaner or do you know anything?". Clearly my attempts in growing a beard to look older and more knowledgeable are not working.
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Should have said you were just the cleaner, and then mumbled "Where's my broom", and wandered off.

I've had a beard for over 30 years, it just makes me look old now, since it's mostly white. I grew it originally because I'm lazy, I hate shaving.

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Big Dave said:
Should have said you were just the cleaner, and then mumbled "Where's my broom", and wandered off.

I've had a beard for over 30 years, it just makes me look old now, since it's mostly white. I grew it originally because I'm lazy, I hate shaving.

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That's the real reason why I have been letting it grow, can't be bothered with shaving anymore.
 
Big Dave said:
Should have said you were just the cleaner, and then mumbled "Where's my broom", and wandered off.

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"Excuse me, ma'am, but I need that broom there to clean up . . . or is that your ride home?"
 
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The Qashqai went in for a service today, we decided to take it to an actual Nissan dealer. The guys I use for the FJ specialise in 4x4s, and they just didn't seem that interested in the Qashqai. They quoted a price when we booked it in, a little cheaper than what the other guys have been charging, and that was exactly what we got charged, they didn't call us during the day to upsell any fuel or oil "treatments", they didn't want to change the wiper blades, which are original and 6 years old, but work great. They just did the service by the book. And most importantly, they didn't wash it or spray anything on the tyres, I told them not to, but it was raining. So I'm pretty happy with all that.

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Did you get just a straight up oil / oil filter change and inspection, because i think you could do that Dave only take 1 hour and no jack just slide right under. :dblthumb2:
 
Tasmania said:
Did you get just a straight up oil / oil filter change and inspection, because i think you could do that Dave only take 1 hour and no jack just slide right under. :dblthumb2:
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It was the equivalent of the 70k service, even though it's only done 32k. It's 6 years old now, so there's a few things they check and adjust, I prefer to let them do their thing, all up it was less than $300. She noticed a difference driving it too, so quiet she had to keep checking the tacho to make sure it was running when she stopped at the lights. The oil that was in it looked fine, but was 2 years old, so it was making more noise at idle. I just took it "around the block" which includes a good section where you get up to 100kmh, very smooth and quiet, no creaks or rattles, still feels like a new car.

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Re: Installed some Conti DWS06's on the RedSport

Tried to pick a window from the hourly forecast to cut grass. One says rain and the other don't. So went out and started it. Got it done. 15 minutes later it rained. That was close! Lot of rain last week. And PA was dealing with the smoke and haze from the wildfires this week. Very poor air quality.
 
Weekly lawn care, then an oil change on my 24-year old Poulan Pro push mower.

U.S. made Briggs 6.5hp that has started on one pull since the day it came out of the box. :xyxthumbs:
 
Got some alignment bars and honoring bar and compound for some scope rings.


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Big Dave said:
It was the equivalent of the 70k service, even though it's only done 32k. It's 6 years old now, so there's a few things they check and adjust, I prefer to let them do their thing, all up it was less than $300. She noticed a difference driving it too, so quiet she had to keep checking the tacho to make sure it was running when she stopped at the lights. The oil that was in it looked fine, but was 2 years old, so it was making more noise at idle. I just took it "around the block" which includes a good section where you get up to 100kmh, very smooth and quiet, no creaks or rattles, still feels like a new car.

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$300 that's CHEAP yeah at that price i would pay someone else to,

The average service on my mum's VW Amarok is $600 and i can tell you a good 70% is them just looking and ticking box's.

Next car for her better be Japanese
 
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After driving around the g/f's Cruze in the afternoon, during heavy rains (the EN was hard parked CLEAN, LOL) I took it through the touch-free wash tonight. The pre-wash was Griot's Garage Foaming Surface wash (3 oz to 1 gallon of distilled) and I must say it did a pretty good job!

Once it was dried off and driven home I applied some 303 Tire Balm to finish things off. Speaking of that product, it's been discontinued, for some reason and that sucks️ For one I really like it, had a slight "blueing" when applied and left a nice sheen and to a much lesser extent, I was a beta tester for it years ago where I had 3 different samples to test and had to pass along detailed info on particulars about each one of the samples.

I will surely miss this unique product once my bottle is empty...anyone got some to trade/sell

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The Police knocked on our door this afternoon, there were a number of break-ins in our local neighbourhood overnight, both houses and cars. It happened around 3-5am, they were breaking into houses through people's back yards, I told them we have dogs, and the side gates are padlocked, so if they jump over, they'll have to try and climb back out with 1 or 2 dogs attached, they found that quite funny. None of the houses directly around me were affected, but between ours and the 6 houses surrounding us there's at least 10 dogs, and we didn't hear anything, so I'm guessing they avoided our direct area. I saw on Facebook that quite a few people got good camera footage of them, and their car, they also used a stolen credit card straight away at a local gas station, so it shouldn't take long to catch up with them.



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Big Dave said:
The Police knocked on our door this afternoon, there were a number of break-ins in our local neighbourhood overnight, both houses and cars. It happened around 3-5am, they were breaking into houses through people's back yards, I told them we have dogs, and the side gates are padlocked, so if they jump over, they'll have to try and climb back out with 1 or 2 dogs attached, they found that quite funny. None of the houses directly around me were affected, but between ours and the 6 houses surrounding us there's at least 10 dogs, and we didn't hear anything, so I'm guessing they avoided our direct area. I saw on Facebook that quite a few people got good camera footage of them, and their car, they also used a stolen credit card straight away at a local gas station, so it shouldn't take long to catch up with them.



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Glad to hear you were not affected, I'm home alone with just the cat at the moment did feel safer with the dog albeit 2.5kg of her but bloody good hearing.

I'm sick of all these kids breaking into houses and then showing the world via social media what they do.
 
Tasmania said:
Glad to hear you were not affected, I'm home alone with just the cat at the moment did feel safer with the dog albeit 2.5kg of her but bloody good hearing.

I'm sick of all these kids breaking into houses and then showing the world via social media what they do.
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Funny thing, the school holidays just started this week, I guess they needed some spending money.

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