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I was thinking of a Bikini colored Renegade Trailhawk, but we bought a dark blue one. Then when I saw the Renegade in Bikini a few months later, I was glad we didn't order it. But on the Wrangler, it looks totally different. Saw a 2 door Wrangler a couple years ago at a local dealer, and...

I strongly considered a T/A version of the Scat Pack in that color.

Having an appointment to us, means we will look at your car on the date you have the appointment. Having an appointment to bring a car in to then wait longer is pointless. I've only had one dealer try to do that to me over the years, and I told them it was unacceptable. That's not an...

They recognize them in non-monetary ways usually! Corporate is really good at handing you gear from time to time like an extra USB battery, or a thermos, but the dealer writes the paychecks and they aren't bumping pay right now.

Yep, that covers a lot of it! Time to sit back and eat popcorn while watching the show.

I just can't imagine the regear on ours not helping clutch life.

Um, haven't each and every one of those been asked multiple times? Asking for a friend.

We have several luxury brands where I'm at. Porsche, Mercedes, Acura, Volvo, Rover, Jaguar, plus Sprinter. The Acura shop is the only one that's less than a week out. Mercedes is down to over a week, less than two typically. All the others are 3 weeks plus. They're expanding as much as...

I get it, but what they're saying is, we're loaded down with appointments, from customers that made an appointment ahead of you, and yours is about a week out if you want a rush order instead of waiting in the 3-4 week line that other people are waiting in. If you make an appointment 3 weeks...

I'm just saying that's when the dealerships all started backing up, for that couple months that they told us we couldn't work in groups, to when everyone figured out it wasn't causing much of an issue in healthy people. When we all went back to work together, we were 5 weeks behind on...

The weird gear spacing isn't weird at all, once you gear the axles down. Our transmission went from "fight to find the right ratio" to "every ratio has a purpose" going from 3.45 to 4.10 and 33's.

Covid happened. It pushed things to where parts were scarce, and the appointments got a few weeks behind from the dealers running split schedules with 2 separate shifts in case one whole shift got sick. That ended within 2 months in 2020, but we were behind and demand for service stayed high...

They pay the technician the "warranty" time for a job, which is lower than the "customer pay" or "book" time for the same job. If a typical powertrain parts replacement job pays 12 hours, the warranty time is usually about 1.5 times lower than that. Or I should say, warranty time multiplied...

That's because Volvo pretty much deleted the dealer loaner program. The only thing we're getting is a loaner or two from their corporate fleet, and a couple out of the lease program. We have one that was received with body damage, so Volvo fixed it and put it in the loaner fleet. It's...

Wow, I'm missing out. I did a gear swap for someone else and included the labor for the break-in oil swap, he bought the oil.

He's got a career waiting for him. That was better than a lot of professional stuff I've seen.

Been a tech for a lot of years, and I'm sold on the gear oil pouches. I love that if the access is poor, you can bend them around the obstacles and still fill without making a mess.

My wife, regularly points out that Toyota "obviously never actually spoke the TRD nameplate out loud, or they would have all stared at each and said, whoops".

2) is what we did. Regeared and added a limited slip to the front. When the rear clutches wear out, we'll be putting a TruTrac in there also. If it had been a factory option, we'd have ordered it that way.

Yes, but they can pass along the frustration up the chain, and since it was typed, they have something to show up the chain also. I'm not saying be rude, but lets face the fact that the can has been kicked down the road long enough. Their reply didn't make sense, it was a partially canned...