I was just telling my 16 yr old daughter how much this pisses me off the other day. People swinging into my lane...turn your wheels left you idiot,! Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Doing laundry for the ladies in my house. One is 5'0"..others are 5'6" and 5'9"....I cant for the damn life of me figure out who wears what clothing. Makes doing laundry for them a pita! Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Check engine lights. The past week has been hell trying to figure out both our cars. My wife's Explorer threw a CEL for the EGR valve, so I replaced it. Then it threw the CEL for the Throttle Positioning Sensor so I changed it. Drives great for two days, now the CEL is back on saying EGR valve again. Apparently, this is a common problem that usually ends up meaning that the intake manifold gaskets, or the manifold itself is bad and needing a replacement. That is not a job I feel like tackling myself, so after a week, $200 and 1 tow for my wife, its off to the mechanic. At the same time, my jeep throws the CEL for Catalytic converter inefficiency, I ended up being towed twice before I had it replaced. It runs better now but still occasionally stalls. But, it seems to be getting better the more I drive it. At least it starts back up right away and is stalling less frequently. Hopefully, just dirt in the fuel system. Put some Seafoam fuel system cleaner and premium gas in it, hoping it will clean out some garbage that is hopefully causing the stalling. I disassembled and cleaned the throttle body this past weekend as well. Further rant, according to the guy who replaced my catalytic converter, gas is now containing 15-16% ethanol instead of the 10% it used to be. He recommended I just keep putting premium gas in my jeep if I can't find a station that will sell real gas. Mother-freaking ethanol gas. The stuff destroys small engines and now it is getting high enough in concentration to wreak havoc on vehicle engines. P.S. Rant, this past Saturday was the last Saturday for the next three weeks without my sons having basketball. The season goes to the end of February, but by then most bucks have dropped their antlers and the does are pregnant enough, I don't know that I want to shoot one. Unless I can get out when I am off on MLK day, my season may before over, even though there is plenty of time left on the calendar.
I know they are selling E15 in our area. I believe that stations are required to label those pumps same as the E85 pumps.
Employees that just don't get it. I have an applications guy that his job is to take calls from reps on projects, review plans and specs and put together pricing and a proposal. He thinks he is great salesman, the guy sits at a desk and answers calls based on the efforts of real sales people. I called him into my office this morning to discuss some issues about his performance and missing items in the plans that cost the company $. Before I can get started on pointing out his failures he goes off on a 10 minute tangent on how many quotes he has out there and how he has sales booming, how good he is at selling the product. Bear in mind 90% of the bids our equipment is specified by the design engineer, selling not even close. He said he had hundreds of thousands of $ worth of quotes out there. I started out by explaining that quotes do not get deposited in the bank to cover payroll, and that his quote closure rate is lower than the other applications people, followed by the $1400 he cost the company on 2 screw ups he has had on projects. The guy tried to tell me that I just don't get it.
Never ...ever put mid grade. I built stations for years and mid grade is 80/20 not 50/50 if you want to get better fuel than 87 take the time and pump half 87 stop and another transaction of premium
Inspired by the wide turning small cars... Why dont we have U turn signals? I hate it when I'm waiting to make a left, but the jack wagon a head of me feels the need to make a u turn...come on man!
Well that is great! I will probably just be buying straight premium from now on anyway. I can afford that better than I can afford a new vehicle right now.
He is 30 some years old. Granted this is the same idiot that could not make it to work till noon because the alcohol interlock on his car would not let him drive till 11:30,
The dam heat shield on my car is rattling. Check it to the service center and they said there's nothing they can do with it. WTH. I'm gonna take a dam clamp to it today and clamp it down for because I sound the whole dam car's gonna blow up Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Around here, 87 is not midgrade. It is the lowest grade. Our mid grade is 89. Then we have E15 and E85 which thankfully are sold only by a couple stations.
I live in Nascar country, at the corners of soccer-mom and good ol' boy. So very confusing. "Premium" may be considered mid grade around here by some...I think racing fuel is generally 105-110, and it's not $2-3/gal. The E-85 is also sold to the vegan, peta-loving, Prius driving types... The good ol boy (aka bubba) is rolling coal.
