Called the local chevy dealership to check on a rear transmission seal for my bro's 94 vette.

Me: Hey, Do you carry a rear transmission seal for a 94 vette, 6 speed?
Guy: 6 speed? Manual or Automatic?
Me: Uhh, manual.

Sigh. :smash:

 

Yeah, and I need a crescent wrench to install it.
"Metric or standard?"

 

No, no, no, it doesn't matter if it's metric or not, but you DO need to make sure it's not the left-handed version! They are NOT interchangable!!

 

You should have asked him for some blinker fluid... :lol:

 

Better yet, ask for a can of squelch for the radio. :jester

 

I had a counter guy ask me who makes the Corvette. Those guys are "catalogue readers". What the computer asks them is what they ask you. :withstupid:

 

:lol: I had a parts counter guy ask me manual or automatic once... looking for torque converter bolts. :rolleyes:

 

or "wind" for the windshield. :lol: :cheers:

 

If you work in a repair shop send the apprentice down to the parts counter for a "long weight" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

i believe austin martin has a 6 speed automatic transmission, the chevy guy must of thought a guy with a four hundred thousand dollar car was going to change the trans seal himself and needed to call a chevy garage for the parts.

One time i was training a new guy at pep boys and i sent him to a computer just to see if he could look something up, acting like a customer i just said "i need some spark plugs"

He goes "how many?" right there i was thinking wtf? the computer will tell you how many is needed in so many places.

But anyway i tell him 8. he asks my make and model and i tell him, then he goes "v-6 or v-8"? for one it was for my vette, which have never had a v-6 standard. i had to just stare at him for a good minute, then he finally goes "what?" annoyed.

I just said "v-8". Then he shoots me a glance like "ok thats all i wanted to know a-hole". Somehow he looked up plugs for a pontiac 400 engine too.

He got fired a week later because an ignorant customer asked him how to add auto trans fluid, he was kind of a smart butt so he went out to show him, and was nice enough to top his coolant tank off with auto trans fluid, and interestingly enough topped the auto trans off with antifreeze. I just happend to be in the parking lot and noticed what he was doing, we had to get the car into the shop and drain and flush everything. I actually had to do that myself, because the grease monkeys back there had little more brains than that guy.

 

used to be when you said 4 speed it meant manual only - now that's not the case. Same with 5 speed - I think BMW or Mercedes has a 5 speed auto with the auto-stick shifting system.

Better ask the questions instead of getting the wrong part. That's the difference between working with a dealer instead of Pep-Boys.

 

when he ask for how many spark plugs you should have responded with 23
oh and make them the kind that makes 5 sparks

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