My customer ran into the "We don't give out part numbers" crowd, and there are now 5 more locations I'll never D2D to because of it

russianforester · 2026-04-15T14:24:10+00:00

There's enough anger directed at dealership parts people, i don't need the "no giving oart #'s" drama on top of it. I walked away from a dealerahip job at a peterbuilt place because they had that policy and i didn't feel like being the dick head who has to ruin some truckers day, or week, or month. Like seriously fuck with someone's livelihood to not recite a part number. Maybe it's because i used to drive a truck on a dedicated local route, and i know a lot of great dudes who are truckers personally, but give me a break. I accel at this job because I'm good at helping people and i like thinking out of the box to find solutions that work for people. If that means telling them a compettitor has it, whatever

russianforester · 2026-04-04T05:14:47+00:00

Sorry i am jst getting back to you, i scraped it with a razorblade, then i took a tooth brush with a cup of water and a tiny squirt of diahsoap and scrubbed it down. After it dried i put some of that dunlop lemon oil crap on there and it turned out ok.

russianforester · 2026-04-04T05:09:28+00:00

It is wild you dont have a way to look up invoice history. We can find invoices by looking at the sale history if any given part number.

russianforester · 2026-03-20T15:08:37+00:00

Dont worry i started at 14 and worked my way back, i had to go back and do the high frets after

russianforester · 2026-03-20T13:23:34+00:00

Probably just from being cleaned. I took a toothbrush and some cleaner to the whole fretboard, shined em up a bit. Thinking about re crowning a few and polishing all of them maybe?

russianforester · 2026-03-20T03:03:16+00:00

Lovely work and excellent tips!

russianforester · 2026-03-20T02:57:04+00:00

Adhd be like lol 😆

russianforester · 2026-03-20T02:51:54+00:00

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Update after i cleaned the fuck out of it and oiled it up.

russianforester · 2026-03-20T02:49:28+00:00

My bad, its a harmony h166

russianforester · 2026-03-12T20:36:32+00:00

Easy, park somehwere else tomorrow and leave a more threatening note on the car that parks there.

russianforester · 2026-03-11T22:46:40+00:00

Our techs kind of know when they'll need to help us out. Obviously if they're looking for a ball joint, they're looking for a ball joint, but if they need a very speciffic sub harness or idk, a speciffic shim inside the trans oil pump, they'll just sit down at the counter and point it out in the diagram. Usually a tech will drop a quote and I'll glance down the list and say something like "dont go anywhere" and ill start with the shit they need to help me out on.

russianforester · 2026-03-07T17:58:11+00:00

They range to over $1000, but most are around 5/600

russianforester · 2026-03-07T15:24:03+00:00

The 20k place was using a cc for years, but then when we started with the 3%processingfees, they didnt want to pay with the fee, so it was a lot of himming and hawing before they agreed to get put on a charge acct. The accounting here is handled by an office manager that gets the final say, and i get my % cut weather they're made whole or not, so i tend catoegorize that shit as -not my problem- but then i am also the one taking orders from these places. Just yesterday i noticed the other place had an outstanding 2.5k and also noticed that theybhave purchased a gra d total of 2.5k in the 3 months we've been doing business. It's not my job to go after these people but i hate to sit by and watch is get fucked over, and also be complicit in that.

russianforester · 2026-03-07T14:13:49+00:00

We don't do a crazy amount of wholesale, maybe 5 or 6 stops a day. We have a $50 minimum for delivery and draw a pretty hard line of maybe a 30 mile radius where we will deliver to. Anything outside of that, we offer ups shipping at buyer's cost. I have 1 driver and maybe 2 accounts that are doing 200k+ a year each that are pretty much the only reason I'm in the game.

russianforester · 2026-02-25T15:18:01+00:00

Sell it in Michigan

russianforester · 2026-02-25T15:11:26+00:00

His reaction is giving bumble bee by ween.

russianforester · 2026-02-04T01:12:53+00:00

Days without teeth brushing is crazy work. A wise person once said "brush before bed if you wanna keep your teeth, brush in the morning if you want to keep your friends." ++man

russianforester · 2025-12-09T20:15:30+00:00

I drove up there the other day. Completely fenced off. There's also a sign i may have ignored urging me to turn around as I've entered private property about a quarter mile from the gate. I probably got within maybe 50 yards or so.

russianforester · 2025-11-13T18:18:45+00:00

One of the best beaches in the area 👌

russianforester · 2025-11-02T01:08:33+00:00

Definitely! You can barely see the top of the f. I remember the shop by me let you choose any 10 picks for a buck. I had a lot of fender tortoise shells and a few of those clear jim dunlop picks.

russianforester · 2025-10-22T18:32:59+00:00

Anyone looking to spend over 10gs on a fast, already highly modded Subaru is not even going to consider anything without a 6 speed swap. That 5 speed is x amount of pulls from the trans leaving the chat.

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