Oregon and Washington BS thread

I'm lazy these days, anybody have any mechanic rec's in the Kirkland, Redmond, Bellevue area? I need a coolant flush done, I don't have the time to do it myself these days....

 

so is it lazy or just dont have time? lol

btw i spotted you in totem lake plaza but didnt get a chance to post it in the spotted thread xD

 

I'm there sometimes lol. I live in totem lake.

Honestly I don't have the time right now. Life is crazy busy and I haven't had an hour of down time in months

 

GX 460 guys

what are you running for rear springs and shocks?

the wife’s 2014 GX needs new rear suspension, it currently has SPC UCA’s and 5160’s in the front

it is KDSS and airbag equipped

 

Well I guess my lucky streak ran out. Could happen anywhere but thieves hit my truck at the SeaTac parking garage. Stole cheapo vled marker lights and a cheap ass eBay light bar I put together that was eventually full of water in the lenses lol. Fucked up my driver door key cylinder.

And probably most personal they ran off with my hood latch pins.

I count this as a win for the truck I guess. They weren’t able to get in the cab and didn’t break any glass.

I generally don’t like taking my truck up to Seattle. Will take something else next time.

 

poop! We left the Mrs’ car there over the holidays too. Sorry about your loss.
We try for the 4th floor adjacent to the sky bridge and the abundant cop cars.

 

I have parked the truck in reserved a couple times with no issues. The other times I’ve taken my 4Runner and parked on level 2 near the central elevators with no issues.

But this time level 2 was a bit packed and I was out at the outer rows in row S. When I got back the amount of cars out there was pretty low.

I was so tired when I got back and it was like 10pm so I didn’t even notice anything amiss with the truck, got on the highway and then saw my hood was nearly unlatched because the pins were gone. Pulled off the highway to close the hood onto the stock hood latch. Then was paranoid maybe I somehow left the pins doing some wiring and nope, thieves lol.

 

Light rail to SeaTac is a game changer if you can. Recently found out that SeaTac is the largest parking garage in the world. It's still a shit hole of an airport though

 

In 2024:
110k domestic miles on Alaska Airlines.
39 nights at a Marriott.
23 trips.

SeaTac is my least favorite airport. By a wide margin.

 

I’m in Portland and end up doing a lot of quick layovers at SeaTac for work trips. 30k on Alaska last year.

I strive to make those layovers as short as humanly possible.

 

There are a lot of bad airports...but you are right about Seatac being especially bad. The never ending construction just compounds it.

 

Seatac is # 2 behind the West Edmonton Mall

 

Save inside the terminals, the rest of SeaTac is absolutely the worst airport I’ve dealt with. Arrivals and departures is a pain in the ass. Half of baggage claim is a war zone. Parking garage is sporadically full sometimes. I’ve spent 30 min in there trying to find a spot and seeing cars parked wherever they could find a car sized space.

 

I always head to the roof deck. Never have had an issue parking within seconds.

 

After a long day hopping planes and cranky passengers, the coup de grace is someone stuck trying to pay and leave the SeaTac parking garage. Once you figure that they can’t do it, there a line trapping you in! Grrr

 

I've been trapped in that mess before... it takes an act of god to get everyone to play along enough for the guy to get out

 

ALWAYS, prepay in the garage. Find a "prepaid" line and blast out of there. I've never waited.... Now entering the garage is another story. Somehow taking a ticket is a foreign concept to people.

 

Yeah, two of those this time! Wouldn’t let anyone by whilst they figure their ass from the hole on top of their shoulders !

 

Yeah idk, the one time I had an issue the entire deck, like all floors had zero parking spaces even the roof. Not sure What the deal was that day (last March).

 

Spring break?