E46 Things

YoungCR

I taught a few other new lot employees on cheaper used cars from the lot haha. Ideally you hire somebody who already knows but since access to manual transmissions are becoming less and less you run into your situation. Thats what independent mechanics/race shops are for

straight6pwr

B C said:

Demonstrating manual shifting techniques should be standard protocol as part of a BMW valet/lot boy job interview. He may have actually been the Mercedes valet, so manual transmissions dont really apply much there.

yeah, par for the course, really. i went to a dealership the other day to look at a car. it was advertised on their website as a manual transmission.

i arrived to find an automatic.

in classic fashion, the dense salesmen said: "So you only want a manual? " instead of "I'm sorry we are idiots"

B C

straight6pwr said:

yeah, par for the course, really. i went to a dealership the other day to look at a car. it was advertised on their website as a manual transmission.

i arrived to find an automatic.

in classic fashion, the dense salesmen said: "So you only want a manual? " instead of "I'm sorry we are idiots"

"But it has tiptronic so its the same thing"

Boris3

straight6pwr said:

yeah, par for the course, really. i went to a dealership the other day to look at a car. it was advertised on their website as a manual transmission.

i arrived to find an automatic.

in classic fashion, the dense salesmen said: "So you only want a manual? " instead of "I'm sorry we are idiots"

Given that SMGs are pretty much always listed as manual transmissions on dealer site until you dig deeper, I've just started asking how many pedals does the car have two or three. Same thing when looking at interior pictures in FS threads.

B C

I gave Big Bear a thumbs up despite a minor goof during Saturday’s alignment.

They tried torquing down the strut brace while the car was in the air and broke the cast strut brace plate on the drivers side. They acknowledged their mistake and made things right. I installed the new one tonight.

Jdesign

Easy fix

Image result for super glue

B C

Busy evening

i_love_cars

straight6pwr said:

yeah, par for the course, really. i went to a dealership the other day to look at a car. it was advertised on their website as a manual transmission.

i arrived to find an automatic.

in classic fashion, the dense salesmen said: "So you only want a manual? " instead of "I'm sorry we are idiots"

I'm sad that the car was misrepresented and thus a complete waste of your time, but I'm laughing out loud at "instead of 'I'm sorry we are idiots'"

GunMetalGrey

i_love_cars said:

I'm sad that the car was misrepresented and thus a complete waste of your time, but I'm laughing out loud at "instead of 'I'm sorry we are idiots'"

I've had the exact opposite.
Car was listed as auto (I know, I know) and I show up to look at it and ask the guy why they haven't sold it yet, as it had been listed for a bit.
He told me they wont change the ad, so people keep showing up to buy it and some went as far as asking what the third pedal was for. It's amazing that some people don't even realize that a manual transmission exists...

B C

Replaced coil packs due to

-OCD

-I have felt a slight isolated random misfire on two occasions during light load cruising

- Random misfire codes stored on the DME despite the engine performing flawlessly 99.9999% of the time

-I had no idea how old they were and wanted to make sure a bum coil didn’t ruin my track day in September

Everything went swimmingly

The date code on the old coils shows 5 years old and matching that date up with the CarFax equates to about 35-40k miles which is newer than anticipated. I can say that startup and idle with the new coils is stronger and smoother than ever and I have some spares for my parts collection.

While everything was apart I found a missing firewall plug that was hiding up in my cabin filter tray. Glad to have removed a potential rodent ingress point