#ForcedInductionFamily - Project AWD Boosted Honderp

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I make it a point to make friends with my service writers and techs.

this is a super good idea and i'm surprised i don't see it more often. its not just service stuff either, if you get the techs to like you you'll find its muuuuuch easier to test drive the tasty stuff, get things covered under warranty, and get some sweet trade in deals.

I got Akebono pads at AAP for $35 cheaper than they wanted to charge me for pads at the dealership...and I think the Akebonos are actually the OE pads. Nice.

i recently dumped the Hawk LTS pads on our Xterra for Akebono's which are supposedly a downgrade (i couldn't deal with the dust/noise of the Hawks) but they've been better performing and almost completely dust free. AND cheap. could not be happier. i hope yours turn out to work as well for you as they have for us.

Yeah bro! I have the same mentality toward any important service advisor, especially people who generally get yelled at a lot like airline agents. If you take a minute of your time to be nice to them and talk to them like human beings, you would be surprised how often the gates part and things that are "not possible" become possible. I was on the way back home from Austin on Wednesday and asked if I could get on standby for an earlier flight. There were only a couple of open seats and the ticket agent looked super tired, so we started talking about that and we chatted for about 5 minutes. Turns out the ticket agent was also the gate agent for my flight, and he saved the last open seat for me

I hope so too on the pads! The AAP parts guy said he liked the Akebonos even better than the Wagners they sell. Didn't you have a somewhat new set of tires too that we were comparing side by side? How are those going?