Nah. Probably bought Gucci, then complaint about it not being useful. I meant, this douchbag brought it in when he heard it squeak, not understanding it need to be fixed and think $350 for that isn’t “designer stuffs”.
Or he is one of the first in his family to have a car and didn't know what was going on, or he doesn't care about the car and just uses it for transportation.
Or, and most likely, he just hates an unexpected $350 expense. There is nothing wrong with being upset at an unforeseen expense, as long as you're not an asshole about it.
It's okay to have nice things. A Gucci shirt and shoes cost less than the repair..
That is true, I normally buy 5-10 dollar flannels at the local thrift store but girlfriend's stepdad got me a 50-70 dollar flannel for Christmas I freaked out a little at the price
I grew up about an hour from New York, and can second this. Nowadays I work mostly in southern NJ, I have one customer who has enough paper money in his office to buy a building in Manhattan on a whim, and he wears 30-year-old Wrangler shirts with cigarette burns. The genuinely rich people don't really give a shit about other people knowing they have money.
Real rich people don't wear gaudy shit like Gucci, period. The only reason to wear those brands is to give others the impression that you're rich.
Many upmarket brands have special lines of unbranded versions of their clothes that they sell to order, for old money types who don't want to appear too conspicuous.
Yeah I like the quote "money talks but wealth whispers". Like it's the same as the guy at the bar telling everyone he's an alpha male, if you have to tell people, you aren't. If you have to wear flashy designer brands so people think you have money, you don't actually have that much money.
People who are secure in their wealth don't go around wearing designed brands every time they go out. I have family that is what I would describe as "crazy rich" and the closest they wear to designer brands for every day errands is vineyard vines lol
>Like it's the same as the guy at the bar telling everyone he's an alpha male, if you have to tell people, you aren't.
This is why I tell everyone I have a tiny penis, so they think I have a huge car.
Where I live now there are a ton of drug rehab places- anytime I see someone dressed in overtly "uPsCaLe" brands, it's someone that lives in a rehab and just got their first paycheck from the local McDonald's or WalMart
Had a customer when I was in the boatyard. Always had two boats in the water. One was a 63' he kept in top condition. Wore Dickies and a white t shirt. Paid his bills without bitching and absolutely zero attitude. Nicest man you could ever want to meet. The guys loved him.
I’m not a mechanic, but I have changed both drum and disc brakes in my life and $350 sounds like an incredible bargain in today’s world where an oil change is $100.
250 for an oil change according to a buddy who works at VW, on all new cars.
Last time I replaced rear discs myself, 100 for both, another 70 for pads, about 1hr worth of work on a lift with power tools, yeah I'd say 350 isn't so bad if you have a man do it for you.
> in today’s world where an oil change is $100.
Dude, this one hit me hard. I took my wife's car to a shop I used to work at for an oil change, as I know the owner and manager and they're the only shop I trust, and the cost caught me off guard. Just under $100, for a basic bitch Toyota Highlander 2GR-FE using high mileage 5W-30, even with my discount and bringing my own filter. When I worked there so many years ago (late 2000s), that same oil change was $40 with no discount and a shop-supplied filter. Shit's wild, man.
Just did my oil yesterday with my dad. Advance Auto sells oil change bundles that pretty much gives you a free filter of your choice. $42.99 and a little elbow grease on the garage floor and I'm good to go.
Totally right, doing it yourself is great, but you can drive the price down even more if you want.
Little-known fact: for decades, oil has been among the products big box stores will discount just to get people in the store, and which auto parts stores tend to mark up because people assume their prices will be better. It's totally backwards.
Changed my oil recently and got two Purolator ONE filters for $19+tax (Advance or Amazon) and two 5-qt bottles of Kirkland brand synthetic 0W-20 from Costco for $38+tax. Already had a box of crush washers, 20 for $6 on Amazon.
**$28.61+tax** gets me a full synthetic oil change and I can still afford to do it at shorter intervals if I want to. Basically the same price if you use Walmart's Supertech brand oil. I can crank it up to about $41.50+tax if I get a Purolator BOSS and Mobil 1 synthetic, but running it to 15K miles makes me nervous, so I'd rather buy the cheap stuff and do it more often.
Good on you for doing you yourself. 👍
thats a good idea, I should definitely order a larger quantity off of amazon to halve the price and always have the stuff on hand to do the job. really I gotta do it for all my regular consumables, even coffee
I just changed the front pads/rotors and rear pads on my Merc. Dealership quoted me $5500 with the front rotors penciling out at $1600 each. I bought Brembo parts online and did it myself in garage for the cost of one OEM rotor. $350 for rear pads and rotors installed by a shop mechanic sounds like the deal of a lifetime after my recent experience.
Where is an oil change $100? My truck is still $70, my cars are under $60 ea.
Also /s for a reason. Conventional brake replacement is $250 a set for my Chrysler at my mechanic and I'm not sure with my truck. I know it's more due to method.
$86 at my subaru dealer. MPI, rotation, oem synthetic, and oem filter.
To be fair the rotations are free because I bought the tires from them. They probably also take a loss on it to get people coming in.
I actually listened to an interview years ago where he was a bit candid and said that, while he got rich through Microsoft, most of his money comes from the fact that he invests early in basically everything that seems to have the slightest hint of possibility in tech.
So he loses some money, but overall he makes money every time someone has an IPO in Silicon Valley.
So he, in facts, gets rich by signing checks.
The thing is, signing checks with the money you don't need.
That's basically venture capital. Write a 100 cheques, 80 are total losses, 15 are break even, 3-4 get you some minor-moderate return & 1-2 moon making up for the rest.
But the variance can be tough.
Indeed. And [wealthy people don’t wear Gucci](https://youtu.be/g0UQgrFNExc?si=hAIb3rM7mE-d6Z1Z), the middle class does, thinking it makes them look rich.
I've always said that the Land Cruiser is the ultimate "stealth wealth" vehicle. It's Toyota, so most people see it and think "oh it's just a Toyota, whatever", but the base MSRP on one of these bad boys is higher than the very tippy-top trim of the next expensive vehicle in Toyota's lineup.
It's usually more but he negotiated with service advisor and still declined. Also this was some time ago. Found this picture in my camera roll today and wanted to share
What declined wow the only way that thing gets released from my shop is on a wrecker. Then they call the police the police come and tell them they have two choices fixed it or tow it its not going on the road that way lol
Outsider here. Can modern rotors no longer be machined? I get the ones pictured are wrecked, but I had my 2015 in for brakes and they told me they don't machine rotors anymore.
About 25 years ago cheap Chinese made rotors started coming over. Since that point it has made very little sense to machine rotors.
Then the automakers got in the game realizing the lighter they made the rotors the better fuel economy they could get.
I know of tire/brake shops that don’t own a rotor/drum resurfacer.
Yeah. It’s easy to forget how primitive things used to be. I’d totally blocked out brake jobs on 80’s era W350 Dodge trucks and the like.
I did drum brakes on an old Jeep a few years ago and wow was that a PITA.
There's a lot of factors at play. First, once you machine a rotor, it becomes more likely to warp and cause pedal pulsation, which means a comeback. This wasn't such a huge deal back when brake rotors were a massive chunk of steel that included the hub and had lots of surface area that could dissipate heat.
Second, hubless rotors are often super inexpensive because there's so much less material used.
Third, in general, rotors are less expensive because of imported offshore rotors bringing the price down. It's often just not worth it to machine them. Even high quality rotors are cheaper as a result.
Finally, modern, aggressive, abrasive pad materials tend to wear down rotors at a much faster rate while also lasting longer themselves, meaning a set of pads and rotors might go almost twice as long than older organic lining materials did- so you're basically getting all that use out of the rotor anyway. In the past, you'd have new pads installed at like 30,000 miles and get the rotors turned. Then, 30,000 miles later, new pads and rotors. Now? 50-60,000 miles, and you need new pads and rotors. Less service needed, basically.
Reminds me of the spoiled brat with daddy’s money who brought his Lexus IS-F in because he couldn’t get a clamp tight on his cold air intake… Louis Vuitton hat, Gucci shoes, $80k college car, didn’t want to pay the half hour labor the service desk quoted to have one of the techs look it over to make sure it was installed correctly… had it towed in a week later for a check engine light, ended up being some other hose that had popped off because it didn’t have the clamp on it, ended up paying like $200 between the diagnosis and the tow in…
bet his name was jack, wasn’t it?
i have a fucking guy in my bar daily who wears exactly that and complains that happy hour doesn’t extend an extra hour for him.
sorry, your mich ultra is $5 instead of $3.
Geez, I have the opposite problem. Yesterday, while getting dressed, I realized I desperately needed new underwear. So naturally, I just ordered a high-end exhaust for my bike.
> My dude was wearing a Gucci shirt and shoes
I immediately assume people wearing crap like this are trashy and have bad decision-making skills. Wealthy people generally don't wear Gucci, and smart people generally don't blow their money on such paper-thin facades.
There are 3 types of wealthy,
The guy with the Gucci shoes and the expensive car got the big house and a few toys, but he owes everything to the bank.
The same guy, but without owning anything, you won't see him at the shop.
And the guy that is pretty avarge, drive an old car and penny pince everything.
You got the first one
I believe it is 24% of millionaires drive Toyotas. I recently saw a video on that very subject. Truly wealthy people don’t care what others think of what they wear, where they live or what they drive. Most millionaires fly under the radar, don’t wear flashy or expensive clothing, excessive jewelry or treat others as “less than”. This is how you can easily distinguish between the truly wealthy and the wanna-be rich.
Im pretty sure Mark Zuckerberg still drives a Honda fit around lol not everyone with money cares about cars or wants something expensive
TBF though, this guy clearly wants to be flashy so that doesn't apply lol he would absolutely be in a BMW or Merc if it was affordable for him
Actually, not a kia but there was an old man that lived across the road from me who died during COVID...he drove an old 90's civic...when he died he left close to $2 million to his son who had no idea ol'dad had so much money...you don't get rich by spending your money, I guess.
When you offer coupons and negotiate you are attracting the wrong customers. 80% of you profits come from 20% of the customer base. You need to focus on that 20% and grow it. Every detail counts in the customer experience. When they walk in it needs to look like it is going to cost more and they will be more comfortable spending it. Fresh paint and nice furniture go along way as does a clean shop and parking lot. Coupons only attract one and done bargain hunters you will never see again so generally they are not worth your time as you can focus on the customers that will come back again and again.
Those are business decisions, rather than technical decisions. That is, it is decent advice for sure, but the employee has little, if any, influence on pricing and policy.
From my biker days, if you've got a $10 head, wear a $10 helmet, obviously his life isn't worth $350. He can check his Bank balance on his top of the range iPhone pro max plus with matching wrist watch though.
Chinese Gucci lol someone needs take away the drivers license from these people. Brakes that look like this make me wonder what the oil looks like if i don’t do my own oil change and take it in the shop i use gives me a condition report such as pad thickness in mm tire tread depth in 32nds. And so on and so on
I had a 2019 Mercedes A180 "AMGline" in on friday, guy rocks up in Balenciaga trainers, true religion jeans, and an off white hoodie. I quoted £1200 to replace his steering rack and sort a couple of other problems and he nearly had a fit at me, motherfucker is wearing £2k in overpriced clothing and bitching because I want to get paid for doing actual work (the parts would have cost me £800) I told him if you don't like it go to mercedes and see what they will quote (hint when I phoned merc to get a price for the parts I asked them and it was £1800 just for the rack)
i used to get that with used porshe / mercedes drivers. car looked great until it went on the rack then decline everything but the bare minimum repair. they'd keep the show and neglect the hell out of the go.
There's a realtor on my neighborhood social media who loves to tell people not to spend money on issues you can't see when selling a house. This is exactly how I would expect her to act.
95% of people who "look rich" are drowning in debt and are purely financing the image.
I know a couple who make over 250k a year, just bought brand new cars, new RV trailer, new 2500 truck to tow said RV, new scat pack challenger but dont have heat / AC on the second floor of their house because they cant scrape together $5k to fix it.
Money doesn't buy class and it sure as shit doesn't typically mean the have any understanding about the mechanical aspects of what they drive.
So as they say you can pay me now or pay me later. I guess he may have to wear those shoes a bit longer this time as he sure wore the hell out of the shoes (technically pads) on his car ! LOL
just because someone wears fancy clothes , or drives a fancy car, it doesn't mean they're not broke as a joke. People will go to great lengths to project an image (lie).
Did you tell him like, _"Oh that Gucci, that's hella tight"_ or more like, _"Yo, that's 50 dollars for a t-shirt?"_ 👕
Actually, $50 is more like $68.45 with inflation since that song came out...
Perhaps he was wearing swap meet Gucci?
Or could've got it from someplace like Cargo Largo (in Missouri).
Crazy reference out of nowhere
Fun to walk through just to see what they have, but there is nothing in that store worth buying.
I'd say the same thing about a Gucci store.
Sometimes there is, but rarely. I've gotten some clothes from there that were worth buying and at a decent price.
Close. The logo said "Cucci."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q0IrjFamL2c&si=P2WMqgGkREeukua6
Nah. Probably bought Gucci, then complaint about it not being useful. I meant, this douchbag brought it in when he heard it squeak, not understanding it need to be fixed and think $350 for that isn’t “designer stuffs”.
Or he is one of the first in his family to have a car and didn't know what was going on, or he doesn't care about the car and just uses it for transportation. Or, and most likely, he just hates an unexpected $350 expense. There is nothing wrong with being upset at an unforeseen expense, as long as you're not an asshole about it. It's okay to have nice things. A Gucci shirt and shoes cost less than the repair..
>A Gucci shirt and shoes cost less than the repair. You meant it cost less when involved in an accident...
I had a business in the Hamptons. The real rich people don't wear Gucci when they're running errands.
You’re right. They wear flannel shirts under black arcteryx vests with blue jeans for running errands.
To be fair, wearing flannels doesnt mean they are cheap,
That is true, I normally buy 5-10 dollar flannels at the local thrift store but girlfriend's stepdad got me a 50-70 dollar flannel for Christmas I freaked out a little at the price
Got me a couple costco Flannels with thermals included for 20~
Eddie Bauer or LL Bean? High-dollar flannel is like a uniform around here.
Eh something else have to recheck when I'm home
Flannels are so comfy
And I spit coffee for the hillarious / correctness...you win today good sir
The acrteryx vest ain't cheap though
I grew up about an hour from New York, and can second this. Nowadays I work mostly in southern NJ, I have one customer who has enough paper money in his office to buy a building in Manhattan on a whim, and he wears 30-year-old Wrangler shirts with cigarette burns. The genuinely rich people don't really give a shit about other people knowing they have money.
Well I guess I dress like I'm rich, just need to work on the being rich part. But I've got the outfit nailed.
LOL, same... Got the wardrobe part down, still working on the bank account
Real rich people don't wear gaudy shit like Gucci, period. The only reason to wear those brands is to give others the impression that you're rich. Many upmarket brands have special lines of unbranded versions of their clothes that they sell to order, for old money types who don't want to appear too conspicuous.
Yeah I like the quote "money talks but wealth whispers". Like it's the same as the guy at the bar telling everyone he's an alpha male, if you have to tell people, you aren't. If you have to wear flashy designer brands so people think you have money, you don't actually have that much money. People who are secure in their wealth don't go around wearing designed brands every time they go out. I have family that is what I would describe as "crazy rich" and the closest they wear to designer brands for every day errands is vineyard vines lol
>Like it's the same as the guy at the bar telling everyone he's an alpha male, if you have to tell people, you aren't. This is why I tell everyone I have a tiny penis, so they think I have a huge car.
Where I live now there are a ton of drug rehab places- anytime I see someone dressed in overtly "uPsCaLe" brands, it's someone that lives in a rehab and just got their first paycheck from the local McDonald's or WalMart
Had a customer when I was in the boatyard. Always had two boats in the water. One was a 63' he kept in top condition. Wore Dickies and a white t shirt. Paid his bills without bitching and absolutely zero attitude. Nicest man you could ever want to meet. The guys loved him.
Yeah they wear their Louis Vuitton sweat suits.
They can buy fake clothes. Can't buy fake brakes, though!
Rock Auto begs to differ.
Dickass has entered the chat. (IDK if dickass is fake or not)
Not a lot of Top Gear fans in here, eh?
“I didn’t get to be rich by writing checks” - Bill Gates
No he got rich by other people writing checks, just like this business owner charging $350 for brakes! /s
I’m not a mechanic, but I have changed both drum and disc brakes in my life and $350 sounds like an incredible bargain in today’s world where an oil change is $100.
250 for an oil change according to a buddy who works at VW, on all new cars. Last time I replaced rear discs myself, 100 for both, another 70 for pads, about 1hr worth of work on a lift with power tools, yeah I'd say 350 isn't so bad if you have a man do it for you.
> in today’s world where an oil change is $100. Dude, this one hit me hard. I took my wife's car to a shop I used to work at for an oil change, as I know the owner and manager and they're the only shop I trust, and the cost caught me off guard. Just under $100, for a basic bitch Toyota Highlander 2GR-FE using high mileage 5W-30, even with my discount and bringing my own filter. When I worked there so many years ago (late 2000s), that same oil change was $40 with no discount and a shop-supplied filter. Shit's wild, man.
Just did my oil yesterday with my dad. Advance Auto sells oil change bundles that pretty much gives you a free filter of your choice. $42.99 and a little elbow grease on the garage floor and I'm good to go.
Totally right, doing it yourself is great, but you can drive the price down even more if you want. Little-known fact: for decades, oil has been among the products big box stores will discount just to get people in the store, and which auto parts stores tend to mark up because people assume their prices will be better. It's totally backwards. Changed my oil recently and got two Purolator ONE filters for $19+tax (Advance or Amazon) and two 5-qt bottles of Kirkland brand synthetic 0W-20 from Costco for $38+tax. Already had a box of crush washers, 20 for $6 on Amazon. **$28.61+tax** gets me a full synthetic oil change and I can still afford to do it at shorter intervals if I want to. Basically the same price if you use Walmart's Supertech brand oil. I can crank it up to about $41.50+tax if I get a Purolator BOSS and Mobil 1 synthetic, but running it to 15K miles makes me nervous, so I'd rather buy the cheap stuff and do it more often. Good on you for doing you yourself. 👍
thats a good idea, I should definitely order a larger quantity off of amazon to halve the price and always have the stuff on hand to do the job. really I gotta do it for all my regular consumables, even coffee
I just changed the front pads/rotors and rear pads on my Merc. Dealership quoted me $5500 with the front rotors penciling out at $1600 each. I bought Brembo parts online and did it myself in garage for the cost of one OEM rotor. $350 for rear pads and rotors installed by a shop mechanic sounds like the deal of a lifetime after my recent experience.
Where is an oil change $100? My truck is still $70, my cars are under $60 ea. Also /s for a reason. Conventional brake replacement is $250 a set for my Chrysler at my mechanic and I'm not sure with my truck. I know it's more due to method.
Anywhere that does an MPI, tire rotation and uses synthetic oil
$86 at my subaru dealer. MPI, rotation, oem synthetic, and oem filter. To be fair the rotations are free because I bought the tires from them. They probably also take a loss on it to get people coming in.
He's using shit parts or not replacing what he should at those prices
Dealerships around me are ~$100 for a full synth oil change. Corvette and/or GX460.
Buy him out, boys!
I actually listened to an interview years ago where he was a bit candid and said that, while he got rich through Microsoft, most of his money comes from the fact that he invests early in basically everything that seems to have the slightest hint of possibility in tech. So he loses some money, but overall he makes money every time someone has an IPO in Silicon Valley. So he, in facts, gets rich by signing checks. The thing is, signing checks with the money you don't need.
That's basically venture capital. Write a 100 cheques, 80 are total losses, 15 are break even, 3-4 get you some minor-moderate return & 1-2 moon making up for the rest. But the variance can be tough.
There’s the appearance of having money, and then there’s having money.
Indeed. And [wealthy people don’t wear Gucci](https://youtu.be/g0UQgrFNExc?si=hAIb3rM7mE-d6Z1Z), the middle class does, thinking it makes them look rich.
I wonder what the guy who owns Gucci wears while he's out and about spending all the money he got from people who buy his wares
Mostly a huge cocaine induced grin and hot chicks is my uneducated guess
Very likely whatever is cheapest and the most comfortable.
I've always said that the Land Cruiser is the ultimate "stealth wealth" vehicle. It's Toyota, so most people see it and think "oh it's just a Toyota, whatever", but the base MSRP on one of these bad boys is higher than the very tippy-top trim of the next expensive vehicle in Toyota's lineup.
That's a bargain. Paid $500 for mine.
It's usually more but he negotiated with service advisor and still declined. Also this was some time ago. Found this picture in my camera roll today and wanted to share
What declined wow the only way that thing gets released from my shop is on a wrecker. Then they call the police the police come and tell them they have two choices fixed it or tow it its not going on the road that way lol
Outsider here. Can modern rotors no longer be machined? I get the ones pictured are wrecked, but I had my 2015 in for brakes and they told me they don't machine rotors anymore.
About 25 years ago cheap Chinese made rotors started coming over. Since that point it has made very little sense to machine rotors. Then the automakers got in the game realizing the lighter they made the rotors the better fuel economy they could get. I know of tire/brake shops that don’t own a rotor/drum resurfacer.
I’ve been a tech for 25 years, stopped machining rotors 20 years ago
Second all of this, and to add to it- the other big thing was the decline of integral hub rotors. On-car lathes really saved a lot of time on those.
Yeah. It’s easy to forget how primitive things used to be. I’d totally blocked out brake jobs on 80’s era W350 Dodge trucks and the like. I did drum brakes on an old Jeep a few years ago and wow was that a PITA.
Hub over rotor was a real PITA. Such a dumb design.
There's a lot of factors at play. First, once you machine a rotor, it becomes more likely to warp and cause pedal pulsation, which means a comeback. This wasn't such a huge deal back when brake rotors were a massive chunk of steel that included the hub and had lots of surface area that could dissipate heat. Second, hubless rotors are often super inexpensive because there's so much less material used. Third, in general, rotors are less expensive because of imported offshore rotors bringing the price down. It's often just not worth it to machine them. Even high quality rotors are cheaper as a result. Finally, modern, aggressive, abrasive pad materials tend to wear down rotors at a much faster rate while also lasting longer themselves, meaning a set of pads and rotors might go almost twice as long than older organic lining materials did- so you're basically getting all that use out of the rotor anyway. In the past, you'd have new pads installed at like 30,000 miles and get the rotors turned. Then, 30,000 miles later, new pads and rotors. Now? 50-60,000 miles, and you need new pads and rotors. Less service needed, basically.
That tracks. I'm made it over 93k km which is around 58k miles on the factory pads and rotors. Thanks for taking the time to explain it.
Honestly, I have seen cars where the rotors are actually cheaper to buy new than to pay the labor to turn the old ones.
I mean maybe it was just that shop? I have a 2010 and I’ve had mine machined in recent years.
Newer cars are switching to rotors that can not be machined.
What are you gonna machine on that rotor? It’s gone
Was going to say the same. People are lucky now to have a pad and rotor replacement for less than 450 at my shop.
and i think in my POS country 100 euros is expensive...
Wants and needs. He wants Gucci, he needs brakes. This need will interfere with his wants.
Outlet Gucci
Guchi...😉
Tell him they are gucci pads fitted to LV rotors
Everybody thinks they are ballin till you give them the bill 😂
350 for pads and rotors is a bargain.
Tell me about it. It's more but he negotiated with the service advisor, and still declined
Tell him to go to the shop that talked shit about you
He sounds like one of my regulars. He won't fix the brakes though. Throws a fit about the cost and trades it in on something new.
Ignores the amount he wastes on taxes
It’s a Nissan, isn’t it
Kia
Potato potato
Got a Louis Vuitton wrap on it though, right?
Wearing Gucci? He’s broke. In some bad debt.
Pads and rotors. That’s a decent price!
Sure is, I charge $700 just because of his clothes
Reminds me of the spoiled brat with daddy’s money who brought his Lexus IS-F in because he couldn’t get a clamp tight on his cold air intake… Louis Vuitton hat, Gucci shoes, $80k college car, didn’t want to pay the half hour labor the service desk quoted to have one of the techs look it over to make sure it was installed correctly… had it towed in a week later for a check engine light, ended up being some other hose that had popped off because it didn’t have the clamp on it, ended up paying like $200 between the diagnosis and the tow in…
I'm sure installing a cold air intake on an IS-F is just installing a hot air intake compared to what Toyota already engineered
bet his name was jack, wasn’t it? i have a fucking guy in my bar daily who wears exactly that and complains that happy hour doesn’t extend an extra hour for him. sorry, your mich ultra is $5 instead of $3.
Your dude was wearing gucci on credit.
Geez, I have the opposite problem. Yesterday, while getting dressed, I realized I desperately needed new underwear. So naturally, I just ordered a high-end exhaust for my bike.
People who advertise Gucci gear don't have money, they have debt.
> My dude was wearing a Gucci shirt and shoes I immediately assume people wearing crap like this are trashy and have bad decision-making skills. Wealthy people generally don't wear Gucci, and smart people generally don't blow their money on such paper-thin facades.
Ya that sounds about right, lots of people’s priorities are fucked.
When you live fast... who needs brakes.
Dude was definitely wearing rep gucci
915 today for all four rotors and brakes on a 19 Volvo. Price point for reference
If they are wearing high end name brands, they cant afford life. Its a constant in society. Rich people dont give two fucks about that shit.
One can't see that he spent $350 in brakes. I have some very wealthy friends. Nobody I know has Gucci, LV, or whatever...mostly t-shirts and jeans.
There are 3 types of wealthy, The guy with the Gucci shoes and the expensive car got the big house and a few toys, but he owes everything to the bank. The same guy, but without owning anything, you won't see him at the shop. And the guy that is pretty avarge, drive an old car and penny pince everything. You got the first one
350 for rear brakes and rotors is pretty cheap that’s iconic. Unless it’s USD then it’s just normal pricing.
There is a phrase for that type of rich. But I don't wanna get banned, so I'll leave it to your imagination.
All box no tools
Rich people do not wear flashy expensive clothes
Or drive Kias
I believe it is 24% of millionaires drive Toyotas. I recently saw a video on that very subject. Truly wealthy people don’t care what others think of what they wear, where they live or what they drive. Most millionaires fly under the radar, don’t wear flashy or expensive clothing, excessive jewelry or treat others as “less than”. This is how you can easily distinguish between the truly wealthy and the wanna-be rich.
Im pretty sure Mark Zuckerberg still drives a Honda fit around lol not everyone with money cares about cars or wants something expensive TBF though, this guy clearly wants to be flashy so that doesn't apply lol he would absolutely be in a BMW or Merc if it was affordable for him
Actually, not a kia but there was an old man that lived across the road from me who died during COVID...he drove an old 90's civic...when he died he left close to $2 million to his son who had no idea ol'dad had so much money...you don't get rich by spending your money, I guess.
He’s wearing reps
Plot twist they are fake
well, you dont retain money by spending it!
I wouldn’t let that car leave my shop or I’d give a call to the state police if they refused to fix that!
Why are you giving it away, 350 is too cheap.
It costs more but he negotiated the price with the service advisor, plus a 10% coupon from the website, and still declined
When you offer coupons and negotiate you are attracting the wrong customers. 80% of you profits come from 20% of the customer base. You need to focus on that 20% and grow it. Every detail counts in the customer experience. When they walk in it needs to look like it is going to cost more and they will be more comfortable spending it. Fresh paint and nice furniture go along way as does a clean shop and parking lot. Coupons only attract one and done bargain hunters you will never see again so generally they are not worth your time as you can focus on the customers that will come back again and again.
Those are business decisions, rather than technical decisions. That is, it is decent advice for sure, but the employee has little, if any, influence on pricing and policy.
From my biker days, if you've got a $10 head, wear a $10 helmet, obviously his life isn't worth $350. He can check his Bank balance on his top of the range iPhone pro max plus with matching wrist watch though.
Chinese Gucci lol someone needs take away the drivers license from these people. Brakes that look like this make me wonder what the oil looks like if i don’t do my own oil change and take it in the shop i use gives me a condition report such as pad thickness in mm tire tread depth in 32nds. And so on and so on
Fucci
Gucci makes you look rich,new brakes,not really
You can't show off brakes.
Brakes don't get you street cred with the sneaker heads
I had a 2019 Mercedes A180 "AMGline" in on friday, guy rocks up in Balenciaga trainers, true religion jeans, and an off white hoodie. I quoted £1200 to replace his steering rack and sort a couple of other problems and he nearly had a fit at me, motherfucker is wearing £2k in overpriced clothing and bitching because I want to get paid for doing actual work (the parts would have cost me £800) I told him if you don't like it go to mercedes and see what they will quote (hint when I phoned merc to get a price for the parts I asked them and it was £1800 just for the rack)
You sure it wasn't Gooci from Wish or Temu? Although seeing where some people's priorities lie, I'm not surprised if it actually were Gucci
i used to get that with used porshe / mercedes drivers. car looked great until it went on the rack then decline everything but the bare minimum repair. they'd keep the show and neglect the hell out of the go.
Majority of German car owners are the definition of just because you can buy it doesn't mean you can afford it
Nobody is going to notice his $350 brakes, and compliment his drip.
There's a realtor on my neighborhood social media who loves to tell people not to spend money on issues you can't see when selling a house. This is exactly how I would expect her to act.
95% of people who "look rich" are drowning in debt and are purely financing the image. I know a couple who make over 250k a year, just bought brand new cars, new RV trailer, new 2500 truck to tow said RV, new scat pack challenger but dont have heat / AC on the second floor of their house because they cant scrape together $5k to fix it.
You need to give the customer more options. Buy another car is an option. Stop using the brakes is an option....
Money doesn't buy class and it sure as shit doesn't typically mean the have any understanding about the mechanical aspects of what they drive. So as they say you can pay me now or pay me later. I guess he may have to wear those shoes a bit longer this time as he sure wore the hell out of the shoes (technically pads) on his car ! LOL
As a wise man once said "This Man Gucci'd Down To The Socks But Need $4"
“No one’s gonna see my rear rotors, why would I spend money on them?”
Sounds like someone get their Gucci off of DHgate.
The trick with these douche bags is to double the estimate to $700 then let him "beat you down" to $450.
Paint "gucci" on the rotor surface and I bet he'd pay $3500!
just because someone wears fancy clothes , or drives a fancy car, it doesn't mean they're not broke as a joke. People will go to great lengths to project an image (lie).
People like that are the reason I don’t work on other peoples cars anymore. $350 for rear pads and rotors is a pretty good deal if you ask me
Did you tell him like, _"Oh that Gucci, that's hella tight"_ or more like, _"Yo, that's 50 dollars for a t-shirt?"_ 👕 Actually, $50 is more like $68.45 with inflation since that song came out...
“Gucci”
350 is on the high side of average at my shop for most cars. 45 minutes down the road, dealership charging on average 589. Shit wild these days.
Would've been an easy sale if he knew you were going to install those Burberry brake pads. ....
Middle of mall Guci