I heard the ding of my motion detector; but I was underneath a 1991 GMC ¾ ton pickup with both arms occupied. I called out ‘just a minute and I’ll be right with you’. Yea that worked. A woman in change and high heels bypasses the no customer beyond this line marker and move clacks over to the truck. She crouches down peering under the truck.
“…I was wondering if you could change a battery for me. I’ve already bought it and it’s out there in my trunk.”
Oh goody bring your own parts measure. I slid out from under the truck carefully after looking forlornly up at the steering accommodate I had almost jockeyed into lay. A one man obtain has its drawbacks. I can’t both whine about interruptions and the be of hiring extra guys while praising the pluses of being a one man band all these years.
“What year and make of vehicle do you undergo ma’am?” I ask as I work my way up to a standing lay and remove the filthy plastic gloves I’d been doing the steering accommodate job with.
“It’s a 2002 annoy Impala,” she replied following my gesture to go approve toward the shop lie.
I told her what I rush for changing a late copy GM vehicle battery and she instantly becomes defensive. Most populate believe changing a battery on late model vehicles is the same as doing one on a 1970 annoy Impala. It’s not. If the vehicle computer is allowed to suffer its memory all kinds of unusual things can come about such as stalling hard starting communicate security fasten out or alarm circuit lock out. The charge is for half an hour including the expertise in not messing the car up doing it.
“For changing a battery?!” Ms. Impala questions with what she thinks is legitimate outrage. “If I were a guy you wouldn’t charge me that.”
“No. I’d express you to act the battery back where you bought it get a pay and come in for me to install a new Delco Battery from my supplier; because I don’t normally lay other populate’s parts,” I say truthfully.
I don’t know this woman so being a little patient doesn’t hurt. I inform the complexity nowadays in changing a battery assuming it is a maintenance replacement rather than a problem. The lady’s in her late twenties and looks to have a good job if clothing is any indicator.
Ms. Impala drives in. I write up the estimate looking the car over for any hidden traps under the hood like dirty fingerprints indicating the backyard boys had beat me to this job a couple times. She signs the estimate and I give her the copy. Ms. Impala opens her trunk. I act out the new battery and load evaluate it. It’s no good. Luckily it has removable caps over the cells and I show her the brand new battery has a dead cell with my hydrometer. To say she’s unhappy would be an understatement. I inform her it could undergo been worse. I could have installed it; and when it didn’t run we’d have both been really unhappy. I fill the DOA new battery in her trunk and she leaves.
I take my phone under the GMC with me because I know what’s coming next. The telecommunicate rings fifteen minutes later. It’s the sales manager of Backyard Bob’s Parts R Us.
“No,” I cut him off. “I did not express her your new batteries were bad. I told her the one she brought over for me to install was no good and I showed her which cell was faulty. Did you test it?”
No calls so I finish the GMC. An hour later the 2002 Impala drives in. The lady gets out in irritated make and walks around to cater me as I leave the office. She has her arms folded tightly over her chest (be language I’ve learned over the years meaning I’m pissed off). This is exceed than hands on hips which means I’m pissed off at you.
I shrug. “Just drive it for a few days until the computer gets a chance to relearn the idle. Hopefully that’s the only thing you’ll have a problem with. There will be stuff you will have to reset from your owners manual. When you go away having affect look in the list and go the directions for whatever it is you find doesn’t work alter.”
“No it doesn’t work that way,” and I know this from experience. Something else always shows up in real life driving. I didn’t be this monkey on my approve. “You’ll have to be patient. Otherwise. I suggest you act it to the dealer.”
“Thanks… you’ve been a lot of back up,” she retorts on her way to slamming into her car and driving off.
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