Installing a passenger side mirror?

[Hootie]

some dipshit kicked/punched my side mirror off and I had to go to ebay to buy a replacement...

I am not savvy enough (I'm a dipshit) to install it myself and I am getting a little bit of work done tomorrow at an auto shop and I'm going to bring the mirror with me and ask them to install it for me...

how much should I be expecting them to charge me for that labor since I have already bought the part?

[loochy]

So I'd just go outside with a screwdriver and a butter knife and the mirror would be replaced in the time it took me to post this.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Exoter175

First page, you crying about having your friend do it if its more than 20 bucks, and you not EXPECTING it to cost more than 20 bucks, despite the fact that you knew nothing about the business, which I later came in to explain so that you KNEW better.

where in the **** was I crying in that post?

I was wondering if $20 was reasonable...in which Bwana said 'good ****ing luck!' in which case the thread COULD HAVE BEEN, and SHOULD HAVE BEEN over.

there is no tears in that post...you're and idiot

[Exoter175]

Originally Posted by loochy

BLACKBOB?

EXTORTER IS A BLACKBOB MULT

That's the one! That's who I was being accused of a multi of. I loved that whole argument.

Originally Posted by Dartgod

No. It's because you're a ****ing douche.

I'm really not though, you just assume I'm a douche because I call things how they are, or because I've hated on your friend.

If I'm a douche, then you're a judgemental asshat, trust me, if you ever met me you'd do a 180.

You'd still consider me a knowitall in real life, but you'd consider me a friendly knowitall.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by loochy

So I'd just go outside with a screwdriver and a butter knife and the mirror would be replaced in the time it took me to post this.

are you mexican? If so, maybe.

If you're white you'd be too lazy and you'd just drive to Taco Bell and have a mexican divy you out some soft shells and then tell me to take my car to Taco Bell and ask the cashier if he could do it.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by loochy

So I'd just go outside with a screwdriver and a butter knife and the mirror would be replaced in the time it took me to post this.

We're going to need to know your level of education before we feel comfortable with you doing that. Please report back.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by Exoter175

Actually, it is one of the newest industries on the planet, is one of the most ever changing industries on the planet, and without being in the industry, i doubt you even under stand 1/5th of what is going on.

But sure, we'll take your statement because it totally makes sense.

Are you serious? We have been mass producing automobiles for over a century. The automotive industry is mature and very well understood.

Like I said, it's not rocket science. It's not new. It sure as **** isn't complicated.

[Hootie]

we were promised flying cars by now but you mechanics are too ****ing stupid to figure it out

instead we have smart phones

thanks a lot, college degree having mechanics

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

are you mexican? If so, maybe.

If you're white you'd be too lazy and you'd just drive to Taco Bell and have a mexican divy you out some soft shells and then tell me to take my car to Taco Bell and ask the cashier if he could do it.

no, but ill wear some super pointy toed cowboy boots just for you

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Exoter175

That's the one! That's who I was being accused of a multi of. I loved that whole argument.


I'm really not though, you just assume I'm a douche because I call things how they are, or because I've hated on your friend.

If I'm a douche, then you're a judgemental asshat, trust me, if you ever met me you'd do a 180.

You'd still consider me a knowitall in real life, but you'd consider me a friendly knowitall.

Nobody knows a friendly know-it-all. But most of us know a douche or two.

[Exoter175]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

I said I wouldn't pay more than $50 to get my mirror installed...in fact, I won't pay more than $20...

and I'm 100% ok if that means I can't get any professionals to do it...that makes sense. That's why I asked. I wanted to make sure I knew what I was getting into and I wanted to make sure I didn't offend anyone.

That was the 100% sole purpose of this thread. At no point did I say "omg, the auto repair industry is unfair! damnit obama!"

not once, and nor do I think that now

I don't care. If someone can get someone to pay them 10 X more than something is really worth then good for them and 'Merica!

Your post has absolutely nothing to do with your contest of my point that I made, which is you came into this thread whining on the first page about your assumptions, the costs, and how it was unfair and so forth. Before I posted, which prompted my posting.

So, I don't really know why you're rambling on now.

Originally Posted by loochy

So I'd just go outside with a screwdriver and a butter knife and the mirror would be replaced in the time it took me to post this.

Right? Easy peasy. But according to Princess, he has a vagina and has some kind of aversion to physical labor, which in the real world, means he'll have to pay for that aversion.

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

where in the **** was I crying in that post?

I was wondering if $20 was reasonable...in which Bwana said 'good ****ing luck!' in which case the thread COULD HAVE BEEN, and SHOULD HAVE BEEN over.

there is no tears in that post...you're and idiot

It wasn't, because you continued, that was only like, the 4th post in this thread, and in that quote you said "If it costs 50+ forget it", that's you crying about the LIKELY cost of the repair.

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

are you mexican? If so, maybe.

If you're white you'd be too lazy and you'd just drive to Taco Bell and have a mexican divy you out some soft shells and then tell me to take my car to Taco Bell and ask the cashier if he could do it.

You have some kind of love affair with mexicans for some reason.

Originally Posted by Pablo

We're going to need to know your level of education before we feel comfortable with you doing that. Please report back.

Education level: Mexican, proceed to Princess' house.

[Hootie]

I love mexicans because they work hard and aren't entitled...like us greedy Americans.

best blue collar workers in the country

[TimeForWasp]

Why would you remove a perfectly good duct tape repair. You could have reinforced it with spray foam and bondo.

[Exoter175]

Originally Posted by KC native

Are you serious? We have been mass producing automobiles for over a century. The automotive industry is mature and very well understood.

Like I said, it's not rocket science. It's not new. It sure as **** isn't complicated.

Explain that to the software and engineers educating the robots on how to build a new car every 4 years, and the people that have to build and place those machines into the factories for them to being production, or the teams of people that remove said machines 15 minutes after the last car of that model design rolled off the floor, to make way for the new units to being production of the new cars that are mostly built by robots.

Yep, same industry from first half of the 19xx's.

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

we were promised flying cars by now but you mechanics are too ****ing stupid to figure it out

instead we have smart phones

thanks a lot, college degree having mechanics

Sorry, blame science for not giving us a way to defy gravity or a cheap enough power source to run an object such as a flying car, without the cost being so absurd you could never market it.

We brought you helicopters, and those are kind of like flying cars though.

Originally Posted by Pablo

Nobody knows a friendly know-it-all. But most of us know a douche or two.

Interesting, everyone I know, knows a friendly know it all. Someone they count on and depend on. I'm a self proclaimed know it all, but and I've been the best man at three different weddings, and the man of honor at another. An honor you don't get if nobody liked me.

Obviously to them, I"m not a douche, so you have a misconception about who I am, but I don't blame you. I come off as an asshole on forums because my grammar is proper and I wrote novels to explain how things work, instead of leaving you people in the dark about how an entire industry works. At least you're learning something new, and despite how much you dislike me or like me, you're becoming more enlightened. So I'm doing you a service whether you like it or not.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Hootie may not have known the specifics of the business practices of mechanics, but he didn't start the thread with any ill intent, so why do you have to be such a ****ing prick about it? He specifically posted the OP to ask a question b/c he didn't want to offend the mechanic; it could not have been more innocuous.

[HonestChieffan]

Originally Posted by Exoter175

There are two parts to your post that are wrong.

1. That is exactly what you pay for, me having paid my dues. Do people go to an expensive Salon because they want to throw away money? Or do you think they want THE BEST haircut possible, regardless of the fact that it can be done as well at great clips.

Chances are, that stylist went to a very expensive school and was an understudy for some very popular and important artists before they got their job, and yes, they went to school for it and paid. So now they're taking in the dough for the dues they paid.

That same stylist at Walmart probably graduated from a 60 day or 90 day "beautician course" and earned their right to cut hair, not the same education, but that stylist wouldn't have a shot at working for the expensive salon, just as the stylist at the expensive salon wouldn't work at great clips unless they absolutely had to. Same applies here.

Same applies to the practices of law, practices of banking and trading.

2. You think I am against small business, yet I am just the opposite, I'm all for small business. One can argue that I'm actually detracting from my current employer, driving customers away to smaller businesses because it'll cost less to have the same work done.

I am all for the small businessman, I've created two small businesses already, and I hope to start the paperwork on my third very soon. I support small business in a way you might never understand because you aren't up to date on my day to day doings like some others might be, but trust me, I've done as much as I could possible due to add to the small business community, including an AMA on reddit, as well as hundreds of long, thoughtful posts on the entrepreneur section on thoughts and suggestions for people to run their business, or run it better.

I'm probably small business' #1 supporter on this website, I just have disdain for Jason because he attacked me first and hasn't let up because he's a ****tard and according to him I'm an "over-educated knowitall", as if you could ever be over-educated in life.

Wow. You are the man.

Now where did I say you were against small business? You work for a small business. I own a small business. I never said you were against small business.

I would assume you would go to hairstylist. Most mechanics, farmers, and others still go to barbers. But someone of your stature in your industry needs that extra flair. Not sure how your haircut became a point where I was wrong but thats ok.

Who does your hair anyway? Ill bet it looks marvelous!