I have a set of locking wheel nuts on my rims, its time for new tires, these arent regular wheel locks, there gorilla locks, with the knotchs around the sides, the jackass that sold me the car didnt give me the registration and gorilla wont send me a key because there "custom" i think someone snatched my key while i was doing my brakes in my buddys garage out of spite, I tried the hammer the socket on trick and no luck any suggestions please i gotta get these things off asap
Locking wheel nuts never again.. any suggestions?
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no, no lol this is just social networking , peoples opinions bash and thats fine by me,i find it funny, thats just my side of the story lol
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exactly lol sorry for anyone i offended with my ethics
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Rebuttal to pathetic arguement 1:
Let's turn this around.... You sell tools and you make a sale to someone who NEEDS your product. This person goes home, uses said tool, only to return to the store and ask for a refund. YOU WERE USED by someone who could not care less that you have saved this persons ass from a whole lot more money than the $50 he wants BACK!
Rebuttal to pathetic arguement 2:
You are the maker of this tool and you spent HOW MUCH to make it? You have absolutely ZERO idea of what it takes to make/own/run a business! You probably just see this company as an "evil corporation" and has just been ripping people off for years, charging $50 for a $10 tool. After all, I'm sure you conceived, designed, manufactured, patented and shipped this tool for far less than that $50, so you the "evil corporation" deserve to be ripped off once in a while, just to put you in your place!
Rebuttal to pathetic arguement 3:
The cashier was doing his/her job and offering a return of the product if it were NOT USED and was incorrect for your application/needs. This is NOT an "OK" to use it and bring it back when you are done.
So it is OK to do this if you DON'T have the money to burn and the work only took 2 seconds to complete. After all, a tool is not "used" if it takes only 2 seconds to complete your work. I guess the "2 second rule" applies to dropped food and the use of reciently purchased tools, huh?
Apparently, the only "tool" being owned in this thread is YOU!
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The one time you use the tool, it cost you about the same as having a shop do the work, and you now have the ability to do it again for yourself, or charge somebody to do it for them. I've worked on cars and had the section the socket engages come off the rest of the nut - you bet your chops I wish I had those tools then.
You pay $50 for a tool that cost them $10 because of their overhead and profit percentage. I assume you have a job - it's same reason why you go to work, and why your company sells it's products/services for more than what it costs them to procure said item.
If you can't swing the $50 - you probably ought to take another look at your fiscal life and change a few things around. Just saying.
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"why waste 50 dollars i dont have on a tool"
Sorry, that is just call life. A lot of people have to spend money on things they need but can't afford.
"why give the company another 50 bucks for a tool that cost them 10 to make"
Because you used it, and got the job done.
Bet you would be mad if you bought something you thought was new and turned out it was used.
Sorry, that is just call life. A lot of people have to spend money on things they need but can't afford.
"why give the company another 50 bucks for a tool that cost them 10 to make"
Because you used it, and got the job done.
Bet you would be mad if you bought something you thought was new and turned out it was used.
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The three posts above, made by "NotNice..." (a Freudian self-revelation if there ever was one), are the best examples I have seen recently of why this country is all done. Some would say "going to Hell", I put forth that we are already there and the gates have nearly closed behind us.
Makes my sort of glad I won't have to deal with it much longer.
In my life we have gone from a President saying "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." and challenged us to put a man on the Moon; to one who thinks "fairness" is stealing money from people that work (hosts) and giving it to those who do not (parasites)--and has effectively ended space exploration, man's dream since he first saw the heavens.
I find it no wonder then that the average American's concept of self-reliance is stealing from others. The saddest part of that statement is it means 49.9...% of them are of lesser value...
Makes my sort of glad I won't have to deal with it much longer.
In my life we have gone from a President saying "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." and challenged us to put a man on the Moon; to one who thinks "fairness" is stealing money from people that work (hosts) and giving it to those who do not (parasites)--and has effectively ended space exploration, man's dream since he first saw the heavens.
I find it no wonder then that the average American's concept of self-reliance is stealing from others. The saddest part of that statement is it means 49.9...% of them are of lesser value...
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i think you all have still yet to understand i appoligized for offending you all but your opinions dont really matter to me, ur just another person and you have all done something like this which is sad, i hope you are all having fun sitting at home bashing someone through the internet for a mistake he made, i hope that really gets you off, time to close this thread
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Did you truly not understand that what you did was to steal other people's money, then brag about it in public and then seem offended by the fact that the "other people", whose money was stolen, got ticked off about it?
All of the store's other customers will now have to pay more for their purchases, to cover the depreciation in the value of the tool you used and then returned. It is likely too that the depreciation is considered an operational expense reducing the store's taxes--which since the government is operating at historical deficit levels means more money will have to be borrowed or printed, meaning that other people's grandchild (perhaps even one of your own) will end with the final tab, plus interest.
Please try in the future to consider the broader perspective or there will be no recovery for our nation...
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I just think it was a poor move in returning them.
I got a set of Irwin rounded bolt extractors for a couple of the bolts on my engine mounts and I love them. They are one of those tools I should have bought years ago. Trust me, you will use them again, and that $50 will seem well worth it.
I've got lots of specialized (and often expensive) tool kits, but I fully intend on getting use out of them. My OTC 4v cam changing kits and degree kit will be very helpful if I ever do more work on the engine. Plus I can rent them out to make myself a couple bucks while I'm at it. Hopefully I can say the same for the Timesert 5553 spark plug kit that's in the mail too.
You can always make fun of the guy who's got the giant toolbox packed with everything you can imagine, but guess who's going to get the job done faster and easier than you?
I got a set of Irwin rounded bolt extractors for a couple of the bolts on my engine mounts and I love them. They are one of those tools I should have bought years ago. Trust me, you will use them again, and that $50 will seem well worth it.
I've got lots of specialized (and often expensive) tool kits, but I fully intend on getting use out of them. My OTC 4v cam changing kits and degree kit will be very helpful if I ever do more work on the engine. Plus I can rent them out to make myself a couple bucks while I'm at it. Hopefully I can say the same for the Timesert 5553 spark plug kit that's in the mail too.
You can always make fun of the guy who's got the giant toolbox packed with everything you can imagine, but guess who's going to get the job done faster and easier than you?
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I really didn't mean to bash you. I'm glad you did apologize. But I think what upset me the most was your last four letters. 'LMAO' It was like you did something cool.
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Don't project your lack of morals on me. I never have, and never will, do anything like that.
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We have a liberal friend (local college professor) who thinks nothing of buying a gown and jewelry to wear to whatever this month's do-gooder gala event is--and then returning it the next day.
The shops owners are either incredibly stupid, or play along with this charade--I suspect the latter, but my wife and I often wonder if she knows she's wearing a used dress?
You think the shop owners pay to have them cleaned between the "free rentals"?
The shops owners are either incredibly stupid, or play along with this charade--I suspect the latter, but my wife and I often wonder if she knows she's wearing a used dress?
You think the shop owners pay to have them cleaned between the "free rentals"?
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If i had the fiftly dollars, of course i would keep the tool, i have a tool box full of tools i probably havent used in over three to for years, and yest there good to have, this was one of those one time deals were i didnt have the money, it was borrowed from my grandfather, he needed the money, suggested i take the tool back i did so of course, (do not judge his morals because they are alot higher then yours) if it would have been my choice, the tools would have been thrown in the tool box to one day help out someone that was in the same situation i was, the fact is i couldnt do that. i few of you are taking this a little to serious to be honest and that kind of depicts your morals if i may say so. theres really no need to post in this thread again because it has become extremly out of hand.
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ummmm... ya!
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