O/T Trip to O'Riley's Auto Parts

The other evening after dark I had to run to O'Riley's to pick up a part for my son's car. As I approached the entrance door to the store there was a young girl about 17 inside walking toward the door. I waited since I figured she wanted to exit. Instead she started looking at her makeup in the door glass. I waited briefly and at the right moment I opened the door. Boy was she embarrassed. Once I got inside everyone was laughing along with me, I turned around and all the glass windows and door made a perfect mirror after dark...LOL

Too funny!

That is funny, no doubt. But it is also a serious security issue for the people in the store. If they can't see out they have no idea what is happening outside the store. Are they about to get robbed? Someone in the parking lot bothering customers? Pack of wild dogs? I know the window tint probably keeps the temps down and the glare during the day down but at night it is a hazard in my book.

Wow, you made fun of a 17 year old kid and posted this on a forum.

I was in my local Oreilies the other night and the guys behind the counter and I were discussing the whole security thing since their windows were the same way. You could see when a car went past the doors, and could see the headlights as they parked, but an army of guys could have gotten out of the car armed to the teeth and you'd never see them until they came through the door.

Not a good thing, and it appears somebody wan't thinking too clearly when they designed that. Seems the whole chain has that poroblem given thet my local store just lost the majority of it's people to other places because they weren't agreeable to giving anybody even a small raise......and these were the hard to find kind of folks that had come over with the buyout of the local, independent NAPA that actually knew what was going on and how to find what you needed. Heck they lost one guy to one Lowes for an additional $3 per hour, the manager from my store, and one from another store (they had both worked at the NAPA and both were going back to the local corprate owned store).

Looks like I've got to start buying at NAPA again since that's where the people that know what's going on are going to be again....

One of my sons worked there a good while and was a good polite employee who showed up on time etc., but that firm isnt very good about providing raises or much long term career incentives. They therefore, end up with a lot of turn over and clerks who are very young pencil necked pimpled geeks unlike REAL SERVICE TECHS at maybe NAPA or other REAL parts houses

John T

Until I read your post I never really gave it much thought. The O'Rilleys by me seems to have new people each week. Its sad that they don't treat employees as an investment.

O'rileys is the only place that will turn drums and rotors in my town. None of the rest, including NAPA will turn them. They just want to sell new. Maybe they make more money that way.

The local O'Reilly's send me people to me when that person needs help with tractors and such. As for the rotors etc we have O'Reilly's or Auto Zone so not much choice since the O'Reilly's has been here since back in the early 80s when I moved here

Advanced, Auto zone and Napa won't do rotors, only O'riely's

daryl pa,


I am of a few that believe that fun, albeit undescribed exactly, is what laughter is for.

D.

Yep any more turning rotors for most is a thing of the past. But that holds true of many things now days you buy it use it and then throw it away. O'Reilly's here also makes hyd hoses turns flywheels and a few other things and they also have a machine shop they send thing to in Springfield MO

Knowing O'Rielly's - she was probably the MANAGER....Most useless parts store on earth.

I agree with most of you on your comments. On my cars and vans I never bothered to turn the rotors since I can buy them almost anywhere for the same price of getting them resurfaced.
Their electrical parts and other parts have a lifetime warranty too! That's what draws me there.

Most drums/rotors aren't worth turning anymore, unlike the old ones.
Especially warped rotors. They're already thin, turn them down
so they're thinner and they warp even faster.
In many cases, $15 to turn them or $18~$25 for a new one.
I did have all four drums turned on a Buick Wildcat recently.

This is not a trick question,,, do you are anyone else know why their is a minimum discard thickness for a rotor... It is not that the rotor itself is unsafe to use....

I try and save all the original rotors I can that are with in original discard thickness after I turn them unless its a Chrysler they all get new rotors..

I have never seen anyone turn a rotor that knew how to do it correctly :shock: Very few folks know the correct way...