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If they keep stock of whatever they have ever been asked for,
that will obviously cost more than only keeping the most popular
tires in stock and ordering in the unusual ones as required. So
they
will obviously be able to flog me the tires I use cheaper.

Or add the price onto the unusual ones only.

Not going to work when they never sell another of those.

Then they shouldn't buy another.

They need at least 4 of anything they might
sell because plenty change all 4 or 5 at once.

They don't all wear out at once.

They do if you rotate them. And plenty change them
all at once even when they don't rotate them.

What the **** is the point in rotating them?

They wear out at the same time.

So a bigger bill at once,

Yes, but longer before you have to pay anything.

the hassle of moving them,

Not if the tire place rotates them for free and plenty do.

and you're driving around with all four with low tread.

Nope, all 4 with legal tread.

And if only one is worn out,

That only happens if the alignment is ****ed.

No,

Yep.

the one in the middle of the road experiences a different surface to the
one at the edge.

In reality there is **** all difference wear wise.

Or one might have been damaged by a puncture.

Much less often than normal replacement due to wear.

why replace the good three?

I change one at a time.

So do I but most don't, so the tire place has cover what most do.

I've never heard of anyone doing that.

Then you need to get out more, as always.

I don't know many OCD folk.

Nothing to do with OCD.

A few weirdos replace two at once because they think it's safer to have
identical tyres opposite each other.

They're right with some **** designs of cars.

I've never even noticed a car with all bald tyres behave differently to
one with all new tyres.

Yes, you actually are that incompetent.

Maybe I'm just better at compensating.

In reality you don't have a ****ing clue if you can't pick that.

And it isnt just a few.

I've just got 4 wheels and tires FROM FACEBOOK for just $10
because I didn't have a spare for my trailer which I got very
cheaply FROM FACEBOOK a couple of years ago now.

Gumtree had a free trailer here the other day.

Far more on the local facebook buy swap sell groups.

3 of them are well worn, all about the same level of wear
so they must have been rotated. One is almost full tread
but is flat. I'll use the worn ones as spares and only
bother to get the flat fixed if the 3 ever become
unusable which is very unlikely indeed.

They should tell the owner of the weird car to buy a normal one.

Great way to get the customer to come back for their future tires.

Who cares about someone who has different tyres to everyone else?

Those that find it works better to always be able to give the
customer what they show up wanting to buy so they don't
go to some other operation which has it on the shelf.

95% of people come in wanting a VW, Ford, etc tyre, keep those in stock.
Why bother with the Alfa Romeo owners?

Because you can flog them what they want and slug them
more than you can slug the other high volume car owners.

You've changed sides in this argument.

Bull**** I have.

You just said you don't like garages which do that,

Never said that.

as it apparently makes your cheaper tyres cost more.

Never said that either.

So if you were right in your original opinion,

That was never my opinion.

those garages are losing the custom of the 95%.

Wrong, as always. Most don't buy tires on price alone.

One day I got them to fix my brakes - they charged me £93
(before labour) for a calliper I could have got for £30 on
Ebay.

So you should have checked that before you got them to do
that.

At that time the car was almost undriveable, I couldn't be
bothered
taking
it back home and in again.

And you know so little about cars that you didn't know what
needed
doing.

Not everyone knows everything.

But most don't know as little about cars as you do. Or dogs
either.

Most people have no clue how to fix anything on a car.

Another garage, Farmer's Autocare, I took the car for an
MOT,
and
they
gave me a list of what needed doing. I bought all the
parts,
handed
them to the guy, and he refused to fit them, he wanted
markup
on
his
own
parts. I called them cowboys, reported them to a few trading
bodies,
and
went to Foz Sports, who did the work without question.

We fit them ourselves.

I'm a **** mechanic. I've never even replaced a brake.

I've done a lot more than that, including wheel bearings.

Lucky you.

No luck involved.

It's a saying.

That mate of mine has just bought a Merc C180 for
just $1500 which had a bit of miss in the engine and
got the non genuine part needed to fix it for peanuts.

But after what Clare and 'Arlen' have said about high end kraut
cars,
it
will be interesting to see what else ends up needing fixing
over
time.

Him and his son had previously had 3 Hyundai Grandeurs
that also cost them peanuts and ended up with 2 good ones
and have cost them nothing because they have sold what
parts they didn't need themselves of the third on ebay etc.

Only German car I've had was VW,

Same here.

that was reliable

Nothing like as reliable as the Getz which had no warranty claims
what
so ever. The Golf did, and more than one as well. Important ones
too.

But since my 73 Golf, things got much worse.

and cheap parts.

Yeah, but the Getz is even cheaper.

Never owned a Hyundai so I don't know what they're like. But if
it
makes
me drive half the speed limit like the rest of the moronic owners
around
here,

It doesn't. Only one of the garage salers
can keep up with me and she's dead now.

Why is it every Hyundai I've seen in the UK is driving very slowly?

Don't believe that and it certainly doesn't happen here.

It certainly does here.

Don't believe it, even in that council sink estate filled with low IQ
dregs.

Well it's true, I'm always stuck behind them.

Don't believe it.

I have never seen one single Hyundai ever break the speed limit, even by
10mph.

Then you need to get out more.

They're driven like Volvos were before the sportier ones came out.

Even sillier and more pig ignorant than you
usually manage and that's saying something.

Mine isnt.

It's the sort of attitude some people have.

Don't believe that either.

They buy cars which are good value, and also adhere to rules like
speed
limits.

That's not half the speed limit.

Some of them do,

Don't believe it.

they actually think the limit is an absolute limit and you should be
usually well below it!

Don't believe that even the dregs of scotland
who are too stupid to emigrate operate like that.

There are a lot of law abiding ****wits around here.

Driving at well below the speed limit isnt law abiding.

Or people too stupid to use a satnav to avoid the pigs.

Don't need to do that if you are law abiding, stupid.

People like me who drive fast tend to either drive sports cars or old
bangers.

Bull****.

No it isn't.

Corse it is.

Every time I see a fast car it's either a banger like mine or something
really done up.

That's nothing like your original.

What?

That's nothing like your original.

They're like Rover and Volvo owners.

Doesn't happen with volvos here either.

Ours are mostly driven by what we call squatters,
the rich end of farmers and the don't crawl along
in their volvos.

Rich farmers here drive Range Rovers,

We arent that stupid.

They're actually quite robust.

They are ****ed by design compared with volvos.

And those that want robust arent stupid enough to bother
with Range Rovers which arent anything like that.

They're very sturdily built, especially offroad.

Steaming turds with wheels compared with real offroad vehicles.

and yes they go fast.

Yep, born to rule mentality. We even had one as PM for a while.

Why did you just object to driving fast

I don't.. The born to rule don't drive fast.

Me: "Rich farmers here drive Range Rovers, and yes they go fast."

Yep, that's where you ****ed up, with that last.

You: "Yep, born to rule mentality."
You: "The born to rule don't drive fast."

when you do so yourself?

no thanks!

I go to Foz all the time now, the last visit, he replaced an
exhaust
bracket (£3.50) and topped up the gearbox oil (a litre for
£2),
then
only charged me half an hour labour on top of that for both
things.

came across a big alsatian out on its own doing
something
very
similarly with most of the trees and gates on the
street
verge,
and going right down the driveway of some houses and
bailing
up
the dog behind the gate at the end of the drive.
Hilarious.

What annoys me is when people allow their dogs (while
still
on
the
lead!)
to **** on people's property.

You've clearly never walked a dog on a lead.
There is no way to stop that dog behaviour.

You pull the dog away from where it's ****ing.

Doesn't stop it ****ing on the next one.

Pull it again, if it continues, kick it.

Doesn't stop it, psychopath.

They prefer not to get beaten.

Thanks for that completely superfluous
proof that you have never had a dog.

Any animal or human will avoid what makes it be punished.

I'm not actually stupid enough to have a
dog on a lead when out walking with a dog.

Then I guess you have a well behaved dog.

I have never been silly enough to walk any dog like that.

Some dogs are so ****ing stupid that if you take them out
without
a
lead,
they attack, maim, injure, or kill other dogs.

I have enough of a clue to be selective about the breeds I have.

Why do you think people smack their kids?

Dogs work differently to kids.

No, they learn just like us.

Thanks for that completely superfluous
proof that you have never had one.

I know many people with dogs and have seen them train out bad
behaviour.

Not ****ing on things you havent. You'll
never train a male dog to never do that
when out walking not on a lead.

Or to not sniff things either.

If you kick it hard enough, it'll never do it again.

Thanks for that completely superfluous
proof that you have never had a dog.

Try that with mine and you'd end up dead, quite literally.

So you don't have control over your own pet?

I'm not actually stupid enough to try kicking an immense
great alsatian that weighs almost as much as me.

Why did you buy a pet you cannot control?

I controlled him fine. I'm not actually stupid enough to kick a dog
like
that.

How do you control him then?

Tell him what to do and watch him do that.

He speaks English?

Understands what you tell them to do, yep.

Why do you think you can make them sit, fetch, etc?

Because they like doing it with fetching.

And they like sitting?

Yep, do it regularly.

Only when they feel like it.

Nope, also when they know they will
be rewarded for doing that like with
the drug and currency sniffing dogs

Slave labour.

You are too.

I am nobody's slave.

Corse you are. You get paid **** all for stuffing **** thru
letterboxes.

I don't have to, I choose to.

You have to because no one is actually stupid enough to give you a real
job.

No, I because I'm ill and find it almost impossible to get up early enough
for a 9 to 5 job.

Plenty of non 9-5 jobs. None actually stupid enough to employ you tho.

They ought to rebel and refuse to hunt down people using naturally
occuring plants.

Currency isnt a naturally occurring plant, unfortunately.

I was clearly referring to the drugs. And you tell me to use
context....

Opium poppys are naturally occurring plants too. So is cocaine.

Agreed, what's your point?

That your line about naturally occurring plants is even
sillier than you usually manage, and that's saying something.

Why are you objecting to cocaine and opium use?

Because they **** the 'lives' of the stupid addicts.

And ****ting in the correct place?

Plenty of dogs do choose to do what they decide that
their master wants them to do. Cats don't work like that.

Mine do. 8 of my 9 cats now **** correctly.

Not when you tell them to.

Because I tell them to. They know if they do it in the wrong place
I
get
angry.

Hasn't stopped that cat ****ing on your monitor.

I've never told it not to.

Yes, you are that stupid. You should have done that the first time it
did
that.

It is the first time it did it.

You said the opposite just one post ago.

Only had the camera there for the second time.

It no longer goes where I've told it not to.

We'll see...

I've already seen. It stopped ****ting in the shower. Camera above
shower, slapped when it did it, no longer does it.

Clearly didn't work with the monitor.

He hasn't done it again since I slapped him.

We'll see...

I doubt it. They do it because it pleases the leader of the
pack
(you).

That's not why they fetch. They like chasing things and bring
it back so you can chuck it again and they can chase it again.

The stupid dogs fetch it then run off with it.

Nope, dogs don't do that.

I was at a friend's house the other day, I threw a toy across the
room
and
it picked it up. It wouldn't give it back to me. Or my friend.
She
said
it always does that.

Yeah, plenty of dogs operate like that, it's a game to them.

They do it with other dogs too, have a tug of war.

That's the way those drug and currency sniffer dogs
are rewarded, they get to have a tug of war with
the handler over a big sewn up cloth/canvas thing.

I wonder what the IQ of a dog is.

Much higher than a cat. It's a real rocket scientist
cat that even recognised its own name. All dogs do.

They're both monumentally stupid compared with us,

Sure.

that's why no dog or cat has ever got a mortgage or a driving license.

They arent stupid enough to need either.

Your cats worked out how to get what they
want without farting around with any mortgage.

You never managed that yourself.

They don't exactly live a full life like humans.

They don't end up as drug addicts and unemployable either.

I just saw one on Youtube try TEN times to get a long stick through a
narrow doorway sideways.

Yeah, that is one thing that they can have a problem with.

But then stupid cat leap up 10' when you put
a cucumber behind them on the ground.

You'd never see a dog do that.

I tried that with SIX of my cats, not one reacted whatsoever. Four
ignored it completely, and two just looked at and sniffed it before
walking off.

Plenty of cats doing it on youtube.

Not one dog doing it on youtube.

Very few cats will do it.

Bull****.

There's plenty of humans on there reacting to things in a silly way,

Never seen one jump at an unexpected cucumber.

it doesn't mean we're all that thick.

But the unemployable clearly are.

You have to train it to bring it to you.

Bull**** you do with the worst of them.

They bring it to you to get you to chuck it again.

Actually that's pretty stupid. They already possess the toy, why
give
it
to you so you can give it back?

It isnt the giving back, they enjoy chasing
it when you throw it and want you to
throw it more so they can chase it more.

Chasing an inanimate object is almost as stupid as when they chase
their
own tails.

It aint stupid, they were bred like that to kill rats etc.

Can't they tell the difference between a live animal and a chewy toy?

Corse they can, but they have enough of a clue
to work out that when there isnt a live animal
available, a chewy toy is better than nothing.

Yeah, like you'd make do with a slice of bread instead of chocolate....

Nothing like in fact.

Hilarious watching some dogs round up little kids in
the backyard. They were bred to do that with sheep.

You must know some stupid kids.

Nothing to do with the kids. The kids don't actually get
rounded up, those breeds of dogs just try to do that.

So just the dogs that are stupid then.

Nothing stupid about rounding up anything.

Something you couldn't manage.

Some of them do bring you a present of something
they have killed. Dogs don't do that instinctively.

A couple of mine did that twice each. They won't do it again.

Because you are a psychopath.

No, I prefer to not have local wildlife murdered.

All you are doing is stopping them bring the corpse
to you as a gift. They still murder the wildlife.

No they don't,

Corse they do.

They do not.

Corse they do.

It would have been seen.

Nope, they just make sure you don't see it, stupid.

as they can't be bothered eating it with feathers on, they prefer
prepared
meat.

That's not why they kill them, stupid.

They want food.

Nope, they kill things.

They think they're providing me with the food to cook and prepare.

Nope.

No other reason to catch food.

Wrong with cats.

They get food out of a tin, they don't need to kill birds.

But they enjoy doing that anyway.

No, they do it because they think they're giving me raw materials to
make the catfood.

Even sillier and more pig ignorant than you
usually manage, and that's saying something.

Farm cats that never get fed by humans and who
have to feed themselves, do that present stuff too.

They are too stupid to notice that humans
don't eat that stuff unless they are chinese
or south americans.

They think the humans use it to make the cat food.

Even sillier and more pig ignorant than you
usually manage, and that's saying something.

Farm cats who don't get fed obviously don't.

Farmers I know feed their cats less than they need, so they go after the
rats. If they give them a full meal, they don't bother.

Most farm cats don't get fed, they feed themselves on the rats and mice.