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On 4/1/2022 at 12:50 AM, Twistee said:

Pukekohe, Patumahoe, Tuakau and Waiuku

Lol those areas have been like that for 20+ years.

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  @GorGasm I would argue that as a local that regularly travelled through these areas for the past decade it has gotten significantly worse recently.  

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Tools. The price of them, in NZ.

Take hose clamp tools. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/building-renovation/tools/hand-tools/pliers/listing/3546065846, for example.

I'm buying an identical set from Germany. EUR37 + shipping. Less than NZ $100 all-up.

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11 hours ago, gjm said:

Tools. The price of them, in NZ.

Take hose clamp tools. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/building-renovation/tools/hand-tools/pliers/listing/3546065846, for example.

I'm buying an identical set from Germany. EUR37 + shipping. Less than NZ $100 all-up.

Just as bad as car parts. 

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"but if you dont support NZ companies you are a bad person blah blah"

Yeah, stop price gouging us and we wont buy it from overseas then.

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14 hours ago, gjm said:

Tools. The price of them, in NZ.

Take hose clamp tools. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/building-renovation/tools/hand-tools/pliers/listing/3546065846, for example.

I'm buying an identical set from Germany. EUR37 + shipping. Less than NZ $100 all-up.

You can buy the same ones on aliexpress around $100 too. 

NZ a bit hit and miss on tools. All the commonly used stuff is usually fairly well priced. All the less common 'specialist' type stuff found in automotive workshops typically  have huge margins on them.   

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What is the point of contact forms/emails on websites if no one ever responds to them? 

I shall take my business elsewhere 😤

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storeman just let an unmarked pallet worth 40k get picked up by an unmarked box truck with no paperwork. when i was away. and i am now blamed for it ( not directly, but there is the insinuation)  :sigh:. hoping the truck was definitely one of our regular forwarders, though they claim there is no knowledge of it. 

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That's no good.

Why was a pallet worth 40k unmarked?

 

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^ storeman forgot to place labels on it. labels were in the office, but we have put processes in place that will prevent this.

Mostly sorted, awaiting confirmation from freighter and trucking co. 

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The resurgence of Caravans.

Burn them all. 

NZ desperately needs to introduce a towing license similar to the UK. The Hyundai SUV with 2 adults, 3 kids, a full boot, 5 bikes on a flimsy bike rack, towing a shittyly restored early 80s wheeled chode of a caravan that has had all the rest of the luggage stored at the very back is quite bloody scary to follow. Especially when you realise the driver has probably never towed anything other than a rental trailer from his local gas station to move some cuttings of which he took 10 mins trying to back up his drive and took the downpipe drain off the side of his garage.

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Wish I could get an oil filter cheaper overseas.  $150 >_<.

 

Still cheaper than paying the dealer for an oil change

$150 filter

$300 for oil

$200 for labour

plus some random amount they add each time they plug in a computer to check it.

$1000 yay!

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18 minutes ago, GorGasm said:

Wish I could get an oil filter cheaper overseas.  $150 >_<.

 

Still cheaper than paying the dealer for an oil change

$150 filter

$300 for oil

$200 for labour

plus some random amount they add each time they plug in a computer to check it.

$1000 yay!

https://www.ccbmwauckland.co.nz/value-service-plus
 

Would be cheaper to come to Auckland, have lunch and drive home, assuming that’s for your 535i.

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Nah, the Maserati.  The 535i is certainly cheaper.  $340 aint too bad.

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37 minutes ago, Palazzo said:

https://www.ccbmwauckland.co.nz/value-service-plus
 

Would be cheaper to come to Auckland, have lunch and drive home, assuming that’s for your 535i.

Not holding my breath for their counterparts in Wellington to offer the same - captive audience here 🙄

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"Please insert card OR select payment type" ... me inserts card hoping for a logical experience and quick transaction ... nothing happens ... forced to select 'EFTPOS' on stupid f**king machine just like 99.9% of ALL transactions they perform ... just liven up that sh*t straight away and make the people who want to pay with some cash, a gram of meth, some vouchers and a prezzy card push the stupid button !!!

... and then ...

"Would you like a receipt ?" -> "No" ... *prepares to walk off*

"Please take your receipt" ... *double back swearing at machine, throws paperwork in bin in disgust*

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14 minutes ago, balancerider said:

Not holding my breath for their counterparts in Wellington to offer the same - captive audience here 🙄

I asked them about this a couple of months ago and the person I spoke to said  “It is an Auckland thing, we may bring it here”.  😕

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17 minutes ago, Cement said:

"Please insert card OR select payment type" ... me inserts card hoping for a logical experience and quick transaction ... nothing happens ... forced to select 'EFTPOS' on stupid f**king machine just like 99.9% of ALL transactions they perform ... just liven up that sh*t straight away and make the people who want to pay with some cash, a gram of meth, some vouchers and a prezzy card push the stupid button !!!

... and then ...

"Would you like a receipt ?" -> "No" ... *prepares to walk off*

"Please take your receipt" ... *double back swearing at machine, throws paperwork in bin in disgust*

That receipt thing does my head in.

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f**king oblivious idiots.

That's the drivers in their little metal boxes, and the NZTA in their offices decreeing roads should be bounded by wire ropes.

Heading to work yesterday, I see an emergency services vehicle exit a roundabout, about 400m behind me. Headlights flashing, emergency beacons doing their thing. And useless f**kwits in their cars paying ZERO attention, blocking progress. Maybe not deliberately, but just because they are so unaware.

When I pulled to the left, a couple of vehicles overtook me, looking across at me and shaking their heads. Only then did the wailing of sirens, flashing lights and so on get through into their little worlds, and one truck actually hit a barrier when he pulled to the left so violently he lost control.

Paramedic driving the vehicle was remarkably calm, and the vehicle slowly makes progress up the road, fighting every single car it comes up behind, until it encounters a large truck and trailer, who has nowhere to go. Barriers mean there's nowhere for him to pull over or get out of the way. Slow vehicles in front of him are stopping him accelerating at all (I heard his horn a couple of times, but that was probably a bit pointless), so there sits our paramedic, waiting for an opportunity to make any sort of progress.

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@Cement 100% Supermarkets are shocking for this - I think Bunnings (or Mitre 10?) do it with about 3-4 less un-needed button presses.

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3 hours ago, E28E30 said:

I asked them about this a couple of months ago and the person I spoke to said  “It is an Auckland thing, we may bring it here”.  😕

Not just an Auckland thing. Coombes Johnston offer it too.

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Sorry I meant Continental Cars Auckland only, not Continental Cars in Wellington 

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Uhmericans, insisting a gallon is 3.7l. Well, in the US, where gallons and pints are smaller than the rest of the world - yes. Elsewhere... No.

Then compounding the nonsense by insisting that 128fl. oz is a gallon, and as such is fine... These people have obviously not done their market research, or they'd know the NZ Weights and Measures Act specifically states all measurement are to be in the metric system.

But no... They right.

(I'm feeling especially grumpy. ;)

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Collected pug this morning, drove like a dream. rocked up to the office, stalled and now dead as a doorknob. LMAO. 

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