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Subject: [Shop-talk] full-service FLAPS
From: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:32:28 -0500
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I sang the praises of that store on this list before. There are 
NAPA/CarQuests here...and they're just like Discount/O'Reilly's/etc.

I guess I'll just be shopping at RockAuto (or where ever it is I find 
the cheapest parts online) from now on.  Those stores are all a joke, at 
least here.

The last machine work I had done locally was cylinder boring on an 
RZ350. They gave me back an oval-shaped cylinder, and I'm still puzzled 
at how they managed to do that.  There's no way I let anyone here touch 
anything else.

On 1/20/2012 1:49 PM, Steven Trovato wrote:
> Yes, the original quote "full-service FLAPS" had me thinking what an 
> oxymoron that has become.  The best around here is part of Carquest.  
> Everything is Carquest, NAPA, Advance or similar.  That wouldn't be so 
> bad if they still included the "full service" part.  You can't even 
> get a rotor turned around here.  The one place left that does stuff 
> like that has a single central machine shop.  You drop off at the 
> store and pick it up in a day or two.  You don't get to talk to an 
> actual machinist to discuss options or get recommendations.

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