is the mazda dealer trying to rip me off!!!
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KDR (www.kdrotary.com) is about 80 miles south of you. Also it looks like you could swing into NJ or NY where I believe there are some decent dealers.
Changing plugs (and even coils) are fairly trivial activities. Unflooding can be done without have to do either... you just need to set aside a couple hours and follow the procedures.
Ever notice how you can never find a car salesman for a couple weeks after they sell you a car? It's because they're on vacation spending the commission they earned ripping you off.
Changing plugs (and even coils) are fairly trivial activities. Unflooding can be done without have to do either... you just need to set aside a couple hours and follow the procedures.
Ever notice how you can never find a car salesman for a couple weeks after they sell you a car? It's because they're on vacation spending the commission they earned ripping you off.
Today I installed my RB gauge pod complete with boost, oil pressure, and oil temperature gauges. Towards the end of the day I was getting the Racting Beat sandwich plate all prepped and ready to go, drained my oil and went to pull my oil filter.
I've been using a cool big black ratchet that notches into the top of most filters for a couple years now. It makes doing that final 1/2 turn to tighten when installing and quick turn to loosen when removing really easy for the OEM filter.
Well for whatever reason -- call it shear stupidity
-- I put a fram oil filter on my car about a month back. So on goes my big ratchet head thing and wouldn't you know it, it stripped right off.I was like WTF and then it dawned on me... this had all happened before. Fram filters suck.
So I grabbed my channel locks and went at it... all I accomplished was to crush the stupid thing. So now I had compromised the filter ... no way I can start my car up with the filter in this state....
It was at this point I remembered an old trick my dad taught me years and years ago. I grabbed my biggest, baddest, longest, regular screwdriver and my trusty hammer -- lined up the screwdriver towards the top of filter on the back end of it and *wonk* *wonk*... in the screwdriver went.
I pryed the screwdriver and, success, the filter turned with it... repositioned and hammered it in a little more and turned again another 1/16 of a turn. I pulled the screwdriver out, reached down, and loosened the POC fram filter out of the socket and chucked the thing in trash.
15-20 minutes later I happily installed a K&N oil filter I bought two or so weeks back... I bought it just as soon as guilt set in about putting that damn fram filter on the 8.
Anyway, point of the story is.... Right before I remembered the old trick my dad showed me years and years ago I found myself thinking... "There's no way in hell that I'm going to get my 8 towed just to get this stupid filter off.".
Next time you flood... think the same thing. It'll be the last time you rely on someone else to fix your car
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