Norcal Spotted and BS Thread

As I recall they were paid hourly per job, not a clock in clock out type of deal. I'm sure they had a base rate just for being in the building too. The rate was a higher rate if they came in under the scheduled time for a job, and a lower rate for the time over the scheduled time. So they wanted to get as many jobs in under time as they could to maximize pay for the day. I may not be remembering it correctly, but that's what it was in my head. My head is a weird place by the time Friday comes around though

 

Yeah, for sure.

I had a good tech at the Winchester location in Campbell but he left for a dealership job that paid a lot more.

I also had an incident at another location where I got an alignment and then went on a 2 week trip to Baja.

About 8 days into the trip the truck was cornering poorly.
I'd turn the wheel left and the truck would go straight for a half second and then turn.
My friend behind me radioed that my passenger wheel didn't look right.
We were near our campsite for the night in San Juanico in Scorpion Bay so we kept going.
Upon inspection the front passenger side cam alignment nut was gone. The bolt was only there because the skid plate kept if from completely backing out. The rearward cam alignment nut was on it's way to being gone as well. The driver side were torqued to about 45 foot pounds. Spec is, I think, 104 foot pounds. The wheel had a about 2 inches of play in either direction. It was super loose.

In short they didn't just forget to torque the cam alignment nuts they didn't even tighten them.

I'm partially to blame for not double checking their work. I do that every time now and before long trips.

The nearest toyota dealership was in La Paz 300 miles south. The next one was in San Diego 700 miles north. It was a holiday in Mexico and the parts department at the La Paz dealer was closed and a sales guy we spoke with said he doubted they had that part.

So, we drove around for most the day and ended up getting 2 nuts that fit the bolt. We used one as a locking nut. It took us 200 miles of driving to get those bolts.
And I was on day 7 of 10 days of nearly non stop lower intestinal distress. I had the shits every 20-45 minutes. It was bad.

When we got the truck back together the alignment was so bad we had to rotate the tires after 300 miles at our hotel in San Quentin (The Old Mill, cool place, check it out). The front tires were shot and nearly bald. By the time we got to San Diego the tires we rotated from the rear were nearly bald.

I'd contacted a local firestone in San Diego who agreed to put the replacement cam alignment bolt on and do an alignment.

When I got back home the shop that did the work paid for the bolt and gave me 3 free tires. I still feel I should have gotten more (like all four tires) for the trouble but that's what they were willing to do.

 

Kinda like a bonus for doing quick work.

 

Holy shit, that's an epic right there! I love that you say it's your fault for not checking their work. Lol.

We camped on the beach in San Quentin one year on spring break a long ass time ago. I ate the best fish tacos of my life in that town. We picked up a dude walking along the beach carrying a machete and a bucket (probably for harvesting shell fish but it's more fun to leave that part out of the story) and drove him to his house in a small community on the beach. He invited us to stay for a meal in his one room wooden hut. Unbelievably nice people down there. Alternatively he may have wanted to kill us and eat us for dinner. We thanked him but headed back north.

 

Lol...that's totally how it is!

 

#whitclawbeatssilverbullet

 

There are a couple of ways incentives are used. Efficiency and proficiency are two measures. Efficiency is the flat rate hours billed divided by the tech's available hours. Proficiency is the billed hours divided by the number of hours in a day-it's slight different measure in that one is based on the number of hours the shop is open and the other is the number of hours worked. The standard is around 110%.

Again, there are a handful of ways to pay so take my examples as just examples.

 

That's my buddies truck, but I don't think he's active on here.

 

Made a thread for my new patches if you guys want to order one!

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/adventure-legends-patch-10.687006/

 

Yep,you found me.

 

Radial Tire Service on Cottage Way in Sac for an alignment.

 

Many have come before me but I found out just how fail those damn Wavian safety fill spouts are. Gas everywhere.

Ended up ordering one of these from Amazon, perfection.

 

Didn't even think of this. Thanks! Great addition to the onboard e-kit as well.

 

Too easy.

Where is @otis24 and his plastic sandwich bag transfer?

 

We bought the exact same siphon before our last trip. Haven't had to actually use it, but made WAY more sense than spilling gas all over the side of the truck.

 

That is literally a true for statement for us 3rd gens.

































always missing out on the fun.

 

Who’s got the overlanding blue 3rd gen with the bronze wheels in Roseville? Legit!