$20 to plug a tire in arlington

[mjsmith]

was it a "patch plug" like what 0920 talk about, or was it the plug that you insert from the outside with the gooey cords...

if it was patch/plug from the inside then 20 was a cheap. if it was a gooey cord from the outside, then kinda fair for Arlington.

[Anonymous]

I paid $15 in Riverdale so it seems about right.

[Anonymous]

Heck no!

I was charged $40 at the shop I use for all of my work. Now, had my usual guy been there, it would have been free and I would have just slipped him the cash.

FWIW, my plugged tire has held up and it's a year later.

[Anonymous]

Normal price OP

[Anonymous]

I was offered a price of $40 for a plug but opted for a new tire instead.

$20 is a bargain.

PS - You obviously don't care about workers rights or fair wages if you immediately balk at such a reasonable charge.

[Anonymous]

That's a great deal. I pay around $40 in Bethesda. They pull off the tire and patch from the inside. It takes an hour or two so the glue can set.

[Anonymous]

Years ago, I witnessed a woman pay a BMW dealer $120 to change one of her rear taillight bulbs (or maybe a turn signal bulb). That's getting ripped off (I could have done that in 90 seconds with no tools, while wearing a suit and not getting dirty).

I personally opt to replace not plug for a number of reasons. $20 is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Years ago, I witnessed a woman pay a BMW dealer $120 to change one of her rear taillight bulbs (or maybe a turn signal bulb). That's getting ripped off (I could have done that in 90 seconds with no tools, while wearing a suit and not getting dirty).

I personally opt to replace not plug for a number of reasons. $20 is fine.

she could've saved 50k by buying something other than a BMW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Years ago, I witnessed a woman pay a BMW dealer $120 to change one of her rear taillight bulbs (or maybe a turn signal bulb). That's getting ripped off (I could have done that in 90 seconds with no tools, while wearing a suit and not getting dirty).

I personally opt to replace not plug for a number of reasons. $20 is fine.

she could've saved 50k by buying something other than a BMW.

PP. I drive a BMW myself (which was obviously why I was in the waiting room at the BMW dealer). They're fantastic cars. When I drive Nissans, Toyotas, or Hondas, it's like moving from a fighter jet to a Cessna. The feel is entirely different - weight distribution, brakes, acceleration, steering feel.

I like X5s (my parents own one), but I would never buy one. Same goes for a Range Rover. In a vehicle that big and heavy, you just give up much of what I wrote about above. But in a car like a 1, 2, 3, or 4 series vs something like a Sentra, Maxima, Altima, Corolla, Camry, Accord, Civic, etc? It is a massive, massive difference.

But I also race and do my own maintenance (once the car is out of warranty), and drive them a long time, so I'm paying a lower cost per mile for a much better vehicle than the typical Toyota / Honda / Nissan owner that is constantly trading their vehicle in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Years ago, I witnessed a woman pay a BMW dealer $120 to change one of her rear taillight bulbs (or maybe a turn signal bulb). That's getting ripped off (I could have done that in 90 seconds with no tools, while wearing a suit and not getting dirty).

I personally opt to replace not plug for a number of reasons. $20 is fine.

she could've saved 50k by buying something other than a BMW.

PP. I drive a BMW myself (which was obviously why I was in the waiting room at the BMW dealer). They're fantastic cars. When I drive Nissans, Toyotas, or Hondas, it's like moving from a fighter jet to a Cessna. The feel is entirely different - weight distribution, brakes, acceleration, steering feel.

I like X5s (my parents own one), but I would never buy one. Same goes for a Range Rover. In a vehicle that big and heavy, you just give up much of what I wrote about above. But in a car like a 1, 2, 3, or 4 series vs something like a Sentra, Maxima, Altima, Corolla, Camry, Accord, Civic, etc? It is a massive, massive difference.

But I also race and do my own maintenance (once the car is out of warranty), and drive them a long time, so I'm paying a lower cost per mile for a much better vehicle than the typical Toyota / Honda / Nissan owner that is constantly trading their vehicle in.

Haha, tell yourself that. Toyota/Honda owners aren't constantly trading in their vehicles, that's partly why they are so expensive used.

So have you flown a fighter jet and a Cessna?

[Anonymous]

Is this a euphemism for something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Years ago, I witnessed a woman pay a BMW dealer $120 to change one of her rear taillight bulbs (or maybe a turn signal bulb). That's getting ripped off (I could have done that in 90 seconds with no tools, while wearing a suit and not getting dirty).

I personally opt to replace not plug for a number of reasons. $20 is fine.

she could've saved 50k by buying something other than a BMW.

PP. I drive a BMW myself (which was obviously why I was in the waiting room at the BMW dealer). They're fantastic cars. When I drive Nissans, Toyotas, or Hondas, it's like moving from a fighter jet to a Cessna. The feel is entirely different - weight distribution, brakes, acceleration, steering feel.

I like X5s (my parents own one), but I would never buy one. Same goes for a Range Rover. In a vehicle that big and heavy, you just give up much of what I wrote about above. But in a car like a 1, 2, 3, or 4 series vs something like a Sentra, Maxima, Altima, Corolla, Camry, Accord, Civic, etc? It is a massive, massive difference.

But I also race and do my own maintenance (once the car is out of warranty), and drive them a long time, so I'm paying a lower cost per mile for a much better vehicle than the typical Toyota / Honda / Nissan owner that is constantly trading their vehicle in.

Haha, tell yourself that. Toyota/Honda owners aren't constantly trading in their vehicles, that's partly why they are so expensive used.

So have you flown a fighter jet and a Cessna?

Yes (on the fighter jet question). Being stationed with the USAF in Germany was where I first learned to love BMWs, driving them at high speeds on the Autobahn, and amateur racing.

You're correct that if you keep a Japanese vehicle a long time you'll have a lower per mile cost than me. But I'm also correct the feeling between the two isn't even close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Years ago, I witnessed a woman pay a BMW dealer $120 to change one of her rear taillight bulbs (or maybe a turn signal bulb). That's getting ripped off (I could have done that in 90 seconds with no tools, while wearing a suit and not getting dirty).

I personally opt to replace not plug for a number of reasons. $20 is fine.

she could've saved 50k by buying something other than a BMW.

PP. I drive a BMW myself (which was obviously why I was in the waiting room at the BMW dealer). They're fantastic cars. When I drive Nissans, Toyotas, or Hondas, it's like moving from a fighter jet to a Cessna. The feel is entirely different - weight distribution, brakes, acceleration, steering feel.

I like X5s (my parents own one), but I would never buy one. Same goes for a Range Rover. In a vehicle that big and heavy, you just give up much of what I wrote about above. But in a car like a 1, 2, 3, or 4 series vs something like a Sentra, Maxima, Altima, Corolla, Camry, Accord, Civic, etc? It is a massive, massive difference.

But I also race and do my own maintenance (once the car is out of warranty), and drive them a long time, so I'm paying a lower cost per mile for a much better vehicle than the typical Toyota / Honda / Nissan owner that is constantly trading their vehicle in.

Haha, tell yourself that. Toyota/Honda owners aren't constantly trading in their vehicles, that's partly why they are so expensive used.

So have you flown a fighter jet and a Cessna?

Yes (on the fighter jet question). Being stationed with the USAF in Germany was where I first learned to love BMWs, driving them at high speeds on the Autobahn, and amateur racing.

You're correct that if you keep a Japanese vehicle a long time you'll have a lower per mile cost than me. But I'm also correct the feeling between the two isn't even close.

Not the PP but you remind me a little bit of this guy at a dinner party who I was talking cars with. He had an F10 328i which I guess to him was the pinnacle of automotive engineering.

He told me to my face that my RRS and my wife's RX350 were overpriced. The RRS is the best vehicle in the class right now, and to me Toyota's fanaticism for long-term durability and the fact that they practically wrote the book on reliable large-scale manufacturing of something as complex as a car is much more impressive to me than a plasticky run-of-the-mill BMW that's practically worthless after 5 years because it starts falling apart. Your Cessna to fighter jet comparison is a little hyperbolic considering how the the recent non-M cars drive.

[Anonymous]

WTS is a Toyota RRS?

[Anonymous]

The average quote I received in Germantown about a month ago was $40. I ended up getting it fixed on my way to work in DC for $15.