WTF is Wrong With People?

[Teacher Mark 53]

I took my new truck in to have the Sirius radio antenna checked. Here is the result:

[rocks 494]

sirius/xm = bad news in my experience.

edit: have you ever made the mistake of trying to call them?

Edited November 2, 2008 by rocks

[Teacher Mark 53]

sirius/xm = bad news in my experience.

edit: have you ever made the mistake of trying to call them?

Uhhh, yeah. That was Fridays bad experience. This is Freightliners fault though.

I'm not a big fan of Srius, but since I tour/drive for a living I rely on them to pass the long hours.

[rocks 494]

sirius/xm = bad news in my experience.

edit: have you ever made the mistake of trying to call them?

Uhhh, yeah. That was Fridays bad experience. This is Freightliners fault though.

I'm not a big fan of Srius, but since I tour/drive for a living I rely on them to pass the long hours.

yeah, it sucks what happened to your truck, i'm sorry that happened.

i used to like listening to howard stern on sirius but since the merger they've been nothing but trouble. they say they will call back but never do, and if you try and call you have to wait on hold for 30 mins, so i cancelled my subscription. have you got an ipod?

[Teacher Mark 53]

Everything is being put back together. This is about money. They will try to charge us for their technicians stupidity and my employer will balk. My whole goal in this job is to avoid stress, make money and enjoy the ride until my wife and I can be reunited. My employer likes me or they wouldn't have given me a new truck. Sh!t like this complicates their job and, whether it's fair or not, makes me look bad.

I have an ipod, but I'm a news junkie!

[rocks 494]

everything is always about money, sadly. i hope that your employer can give them a hard time rather than you having to waste your time doing it and stressing yourself out at the same time.

i hear you on the news front, there's not really a lot of options there.

[MrsCat 6]

sorry to hear and see that dude. That sucks big time! jerkstores!

[Teacher Mark 53]

sorry to hear and see that dude. That sucks big time! jerkstores!

I'm still freakin' here! Now they're trying to figure out why my high beams aren't working.

[MrsCat 6]

sorry to hear and see that dude. That sucks big time! jerkstores!

I'm still freakin' here! Now they're trying to figure out why my high beams aren't working.

Kick to the nuts time! OMFG. They better be offering you something else for the time you've spent now.

f*ktards!

[Teacher Mark 53]

sorry to hear and see that dude. That sucks big time! jerkstores!

I'm still freakin' here! Now they're trying to figure out why my high beams aren't working.

Kick to the nuts time! OMFG. They better be offering you something else for the time you've spent now.

f*ktards!

Welcome to the glorious life of a trucker. I'm paid a salary, otherwise I'd be pretty ticked about the time. The stereo is another matter.

[NickD 203]

sorry to hear and see that dude. That sucks big time! jerkstores!

I'm still freakin' here! Now they're trying to figure out why my high beams aren't working.

Kick to the nuts time! OMFG. They better be offering you something else for the time you've spent now.

f*ktards!

Welcome to the glorious life of a trucker. I'm paid a salary, otherwise I'd be pretty ticked about the time. The stereo is another matter.

This actually happens to quite a few people that take the delivery of a brand new vehicle without testing everything out first. Feel OBD II is really a major injustice to consumers in that while it was suppose to make the diagnostic scanner interface universal for all vehicles it turned the other way in that each manufacturer adds a bunch of codes, unique to that vehicle and treating the very program that determines whether your vehicle can even run or not as firmware installed in a flashram memory that is subject to glitches.

To reflash the ram, requires a scanner anyone can buy for around 6,000 bucks, a notebook, but most important, the esoteric software, until very recently, only the manufactures and dealers had access to. But recently available due to a supreme court decision, if you can prove you are capable, and have a couple of thousand bucks or more for each different vehicle make to get a subscription. Have to go back to the dealer and pay 100 bucks an hour for some high school kid to work on your car.

With any computerized device, have to check the software first, find it hard to believe that I can go to the internet and download free firmware for a 30 buck DVD player and install that myself, but have to pay a small fortuned to get this done with a 30,000 buck vehicle one week out of warranty. We the consumers are the stupid ones for buying this #######, should just leave them in the showroom.

Can't even put on an access plate so you can change a tank mounted fuel pump in five minutes, have to drain the gas first and drop the tank, very expensive operation if you have to put that on your CC.

[Ling Ling 22]

sorry to hear and see that dude. That sucks big time! jerkstores!

I'm still freakin' here! Now they're trying to figure out why my high beams aren't working.

Kick to the nuts time! OMFG. They better be offering you something else for the time you've spent now.

f*ktards!

Welcome to the glorious life of a trucker. I'm paid a salary, otherwise I'd be pretty ticked about the time. The stereo is another matter.

This actually happens to quite a few people that take the delivery of a brand new vehicle without testing everything out first. Feel OBD II is really a major injustice to consumers in that while it was suppose to make the diagnostic scanner interface universal for all vehicles it turned the other way in that each manufacturer adds a bunch of codes, unique to that vehicle and treating the very program that determines whether your vehicle can even run or not as firmware installed in a flashram memory that is subject to glitches.

To reflash the ram, requires a scanner anyone can buy for around 6,000 bucks, a notebook, but most important, the esoteric software, until very recently, only the manufactures and dealers had access to. But recently available due to a supreme court decision, if you can prove you are capable, and have a couple of thousand bucks or more for each different vehicle make to get a subscription. Have to go back to the dealer and pay 100 bucks an hour for some high school kid to work on your car.

With any computerized device, have to check the software first, find it hard to believe that I can go to the internet and download free firmware for a 30 buck DVD player and install that myself, but have to pay a small fortuned to get this done with a 30,000 buck vehicle one week out of warranty. We the consumers are the stupid ones for buying this #######, should just leave them in the showroom.

Can't even put on an access plate so you can change a tank mounted fuel pump in five minutes, have to drain the gas first and drop the tank, very expensive operation if you have to put that on your CC.

Sorry to hear about the truck Joe. Hang in there.

Nick, you think OBD-II is bad...wait until OBD-III. It's supposed to be interactive with law enforcement. http://www.asashop.org/autoinc/may/obd_iii_new.cfm

In the beginning, "regulators" (patrol officers) could slowly disable your vehicle if you haven't fixed the gas cap that's triggering a check engine light.

But of course we can guess that eventually, patrol officers will begin disabling vehicles for everything from speeding to being late with your library books.

I picked up my own OBD-II reader for under $300 bucks....and let all my friends use it. A former mechanic of mine was part of the team of independent shop owners

that helped push the law for the manufacturers to share their secrets that effect how environmentally friendly your car runs.

On the reverse side, you can't argue that OBD-II cars aren't running better and laster longer.

But I will be kicking and screaming before I buy a car with OBD-III.

Final note...when it comes to stereo repair...go to Best Buy or Circuit City...or some other large place.

The small shops usually don't do as much business in a month, as some of these do in a day.

Small shops are great for very custom work and big projects. But if you want someone with day to day experience, and a hotline to the equipment manufacturers,

you've gotta go with the big box stores.

[SaadBell 0]

Wow, nice freaking job, sorry about that, just makes your blood pressure sky rocket, I hate things like that.