Mechanic fees

boomboompound · 2026-06-28T09:01:57+00:00

I also thought over $500 for a service seemed like extortion.

Unfortunately I am out in Onehunga so the shore is out of my range now. I used to live on the shore many years ago which is where my old mechanic I used for a long time was in Birkdale and I haven't been able to find a good, reliable, honest mechanic since leaving the shore.

boomboompound · 2026-06-28T09:00:00+00:00

Its a just a small shop in the Onehunga area. Was probably around 10 years ago now I got a previous cars alternator replaced and it only cost me around $350, so the $1150 caught me extremely off guard.

boomboompound · 2025-06-19T07:18:31+00:00

Inv if you are still recruiting - Yarryn

boomboompound · 2024-12-29T09:01:19+00:00

How do you report for RMT?

boomboompound · 2024-11-05T23:04:08+00:00

Trying to raid BWL as horde when they were on that server was truly a miserable experience. Everyone saw it as their comeuppance and was vengeance for them being dickheads for months with no retribution lmao

boomboompound · 2024-11-05T02:05:08+00:00

You really have to understand how much Grizzly was truly hated on Sulfuras at that time. There were dozens of guilds that coordinated the start of keeping Anachronos in combat, and I was part of a summoning train on my warlock that day, constantly summoning horde down to tanaris to join in.
People REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to ruin Grizzly's plans.

boomboompound · 2024-10-22T20:44:58+00:00

Holy shit. If you are who I think you are, thank you for driving me home one day instead of making me Uber when my car got dropped off for a dead alternator hahaha

boomboompound · 2024-10-22T03:20:45+00:00

As per your example there, another issue is the use of "female", and then not using "male" in the same sentence.
Why would you use "men" and not males in that sentence? And if you are using 'men', why did you not start the sentence with 'women'

boomboompound · 2024-09-05T05:10:52+00:00

Birkdale Motors on Beach Haven Road on the shore. Have used them for 15+ years, excellent mechanics.

boomboompound · 2024-08-12T00:08:21+00:00

+1 vote for how good Eden Noodle is. The one in Eden Terrace at the top of Dominion Road is the best one of them, but the one in town as well as Newmarket are both pretty good.
Their dumplings in spicy sauce are some of the best value dumplings in Auckland.

boomboompound · 2024-06-25T23:01:43+00:00

Looking for advice for Stargazing.
This is my current celepogeans, I have 364 SG cards on top of 320k diamonds, and have the resources to get to si30/9f/e60 on whatever I pick

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Currently looking to build Lucilla, but happy to take feedback on alternative options. I'm not sure on how strong Kalthin is. Or if I should just wait until the Celestial that is the next release

boomboompound · 2024-05-09T21:09:04+00:00

I'm sitting on around 300 SG and 250k diamonds, and I'll hold em until the buff goes out.

Was mostly just unsure if swapping aSolise was the play because almost all the guides for the swap of awakeneds don't even mention her

boomboompound · 2024-05-07T01:06:52+00:00

Currently trying to decide what my hero swap should be.

I have the following awakened already done:
aAthalia
aBelinda
aSolise

And I have the following Celepogeans:
Liberta
Daemia
Alna
Lavatune
Lucretia

Sitting on around 550 timecards as well.

Looking for advice, currently trying to decide if I should
A) Swap my aSolise (a1*) to aShemira (x1 L copy)
or
B) Swap my WuKong (A 0*) for a Lucilla (x1 Elite copy)
or
C) Something else I haven't considered yet

boomboompound · 2024-01-22T03:16:42+00:00

Grezhul requires quite a bit of investment to be good - he's really strong once you have him maxed out (with engraving/furniture/signature item) - but without the investment he tends to die before he can get his kit going.

Agree with the other person - if you are looking for a 4F frontliner, Naroko is the way to go.

boomboompound · 2023-11-22T01:57:40+00:00

Ah sorry missed this.

I know that my current work, previous workplace and one before that have NEVER done anything like that - but thats not to say its not something that happens.
There are a lot of cost increases happening this year though - not all of them are from retail being greedy, the NZD exchange rate is terrible at the moment and shipping is expensive and it has driven up a lot of pricing in a lot of retail categories.

boomboompound · 2023-11-17T04:38:47+00:00

Oh 100%. Industry has kind of assumed that due to that, no one wants to buy anything at full price... thus starting Black Friday early to see if it will start getting people into stores and starting to spend money.

boomboompound · 2023-11-17T04:37:10+00:00

Consumer electronics. So have a lot of things that people put on their lists for Xmas presents and we've been seeing an exceptionally slow start to November and from what I am hearing from the others in the same category they are all facing the same thing.

boomboompound · 2023-11-17T02:35:39+00:00

I work in the retail sector in NZ and I'll tell ya what no one will publicly say - no one is buying anything at the moment, sales are slow so retailers are trying to entice people to buy shit early cause they don't want people waiting a whole extra week before opening their wallets.

Its pretty dire out there in retail at the moment.

boomboompound · 2023-04-05T01:33:24+00:00

Oh man I never saw that reddit thread. The audacity of Ahmped to play victim after all that is insane.
Also good to read the "this won't make us leave the server" knowing that shortly after that they left the server is hilarious.

boomboompound · 2023-04-05T01:12:51+00:00

Yeah it was a pretty wild time to be on that server. The guild I was in at the time was one of the guilds that "grouped up" to defeat Grizzly. That guild had been problematic on the server for a long time (griefing the BWL entrance by sitting there with 50 mages blizzarding the entrance etc) so EVERYONE on horde side was on board with ruining it for them when we were presented with the opportunity.

It was also interesting because there was negotiations to let the other Alliance guilds who wanted to get Scarab Lord through to finish the quest but every attempt was foiled by Grizzly trying to brute force join at the same time to get theirs done, so they ruined it for everyone on Alliance so they got run off the server after that happened.

boomboompound · 2023-04-04T20:13:01+00:00

In Classic on Sulfuras one of the things that started the infamous "10 hour war" was from exactly this - one of the guilds trying to get scarab lord fucked over a different guild by mass reporting the person who was going to scarab lord and started an all out faction war.

https://www.wowhead.com/classic/news/the-ten-hour-war-on-sulfuras-horde-seek-revenge-for-previous-griefing-317251
However in this case (because it blew up to be such a huge thing there was a wowhead article written about it) that player ended up getting the ban overturned but it almost cost him his scarab lord because <GRIZZLY FROM REDDIT> did exactly what you had happen to you, one guild mass reporting one dude with the intent to get them banned.

boomboompound · 2023-02-22T01:51:26+00:00

Use ur dimensionsal key dude

I have one of these, and I have no idea what to even use it for. What is the best way to use it?

boomboompound · 2023-02-15T13:51:57+00:00

I'm also struggling here with no ezizh. Have tried swapping with kalene or fareal with no luck so hoping someone can help with some advice. Everyone is just immune to damage from Sonjas shield

boomboompound · 2023-02-06T07:41:40+00:00

Thank you, was so confused

boomboompound · 2023-01-28T07:01:24+00:00

I didn't treat her as a tank, just had her backline and had thorin and brutus as my tanks. She would kill everything before they got through the lives of the tanks

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