PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

The EPA fuel Mileage requirements are a big factor why single cabs are gone, larger passenger volume lowers the required mileage number.

 

pointless kit, the only reg cab I would ever buy is a ford lightning.

 

This song is an effing classic!

 

1998 Chevy/Grumman TASTYKAKE delivery truck; 287K miles!

 

Dyi...

 

How do you do that?

 

I don't know about yours but my 05 gas cap came like that from factory with the plastic string attached to the gas door

 

Mine gas cap become unattached from the door and I went with the Messo holder as opposed to fixing the plastic strap... which works well

 

Flashback to October 2018!

Hauled a bed and some other stuff about 70 miles from my Grandma’s old house to my cousin’s new house...




Then my cousin and I drove about twenty miles from her and her husband’s new house to their old apartment; She didn’t think we could fit all this stuff in the truck...

 

Yeah I was looking at that number. 3% feels fair-ish. 9% is gouging.

 

Oh for sure.

 

Was the fee disclosed beforehand? A lot of business owners hate visa/MasterCard because they skim their profits.

Maybe the business has a grudge with visa and the convenience fee is a little heavy handed to discourage people from paying with credit.

There are many ways to pay “cash” without using paper money. Bank draft, Interac Debit, Cheque. Or your cousin hits the bank and grabs cash cash.

 

I think we paid somewhere between 2.5-3.5% depending on the card type.

 

I do not believe the fee was disclosed beforehand. I think it’s just a body shop taking advantage of the fact that they’re the only body shop in the area.

 

Good morning! Heading up to Bethlehem this afternoon to get the trim piece from the junkyard!

 

I'm the parts manager at a dealership. My department gets charged back an average of $3k per month for "merchandising fees" which is essentially my share of what we pay out to the credit card companies each month for allowing our customers to pay by card. We pay out almost $11K per month in credit card fees which we don't charge back to our customers in any obvious ways. In today's market most companies bury that expense into the price of their products or services without making it so obvious. I'll admit the $150 charge he paid was a bit high but it probably cost the shop almost $100 (at a rate of up to 6% based on their average number of transactions per month). Most shops will try to do the job cheaper for you if they know its a cash job and not an insurance job. They often cut into their own profits to try to make the repair more affordable for the customer. When that "cash" job turns into a credit card charge they just don't want to absorb that additional expense charged back to them by the credit card company. He admittedly "read them the riot act" so I can't see where they would have wanted to work anything better out at that point.

 

When I still had the factory grille and chrome emblems, I could have gone for this look, but now it’s just too much damn chrome!

 

Wait until they’re gunmetal metallic!

 

I used to drive one occasionally when I worked in a warehouse, I recall the ones with Automatics having a weird system, some kind of brake drum on the driveshaft to hold it when parked.

 

Good deal.