My shop finally has heat!!!

[streetglideok]

Tell me about it. When I first moved to Denver I was stuck for a while at Midas while I looked for a better gig. An X3 came in needing a battery. Wasn't my ticket but I checked it out. Under warranty. I mention it to the service writer. Nope. They just replaced the AGM battery with a standard one and didn't reprogram it. I left shortly after.

Funny you mention them. Corporate(cosmic) store, or one of the franchise stores? Put in quite a few years with some midas franchises before I went to an independent out here. I got very tired of cleaning up the messes that C techs made doing A tech work, and the front staff had even less of a clue, and pushing cheap parts for high prices. Know how many crank sensors I threw in a VW from bautozone before they decided to listen to me and get one from the dealer?lol

[tmleadr03]

Funny you mention them. Corporate(cosmic) store, or one of the franchise stores? Put in quite a few years with some midas franchises before I went to an independent out here. I got very tired of cleaning up the messes that C techs made doing A tech work, and the front staff had even less of a clue, and pushing cheap parts for high prices. Know how many crank sensors I threw in a VW from bautozone before they decided to listen to me and get one from the dealer?lol

I will not do business with Auto zone. I took over as manager and the only tech in a shop in Lakewood. The previous owner had run up a few thousand dollars debt with every parts supplier. Then sold the business. No one would sell the business parts for a month. Except auto zone. So that is what I used for a month till I cleared up the confusion with the rest of the parts suppliers. Then I spent the next 6 months replacing every single part I hung that first month.