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#3380210 3-Jun-2025 16:18

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I'd be grumpy if the previous service hadn't flagged that brakes would need doing. Unless you drive like an uncle used to after a few services the wear rate is predictable.

We thought we were up for pads at best.

Turned out the drum brakes at the rear were cooked and needed cylinders and shoes, the discs needed replacing and the pads were also toast.

Haven't had it serviced in ages as it's the wife's runabout which does about 5-10 km a day at most. I never drive it. Last WOF was at a testing station and brakes passed with no comments or warnings.

Not a Toyota or Mazda I'm guessing.

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#3380226 3-Jun-2025 18:16

Handsomedan:

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I'd be grumpy if the previous service hadn't flagged that brakes would need doing. Unless you drive like an uncle used to after a few services the wear rate is predictable.

We thought we were up for pads at best.

Turned out the drum brakes at the rear were cooked and needed cylinders and shoes, the discs needed replacing and the pads were also toast.

Haven't had it serviced in ages as it's the wife's runabout which does about 5-10 km a day at most. I never drive it. Last WOF was at a testing station and brakes passed with no comments or warnings.

How many kms on the discs? My brother got a decent bill for one of his cars needing pads and discs at some very low mileage. I berated him for not actually questioning it.

Now I know people drive differently but I got 200,000kms out of the discs on my last two cars. And I requested them to be changed, never got too thin, but I could feel the discs pulsing in certain situations. IE exiting a downhill off ramp at 100kmh where the front of the car was loaded more than normal.

I'm not saying the your discs were too thin. More a general rant.

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#3380227 3-Jun-2025 18:19

~~Countdown~~ Woolworths trying to sneakily hide products.

I noticed last week something I wanted to buy was no longer in this area below - it was moved out of the way to the other side of the store. In place some house brands.

Today I noticed Mainland cheese blocks were moved all the way to the end, next to the cold meats, while the cheese are is now populated with their house brand of block cheese.

They're trying hard to justify not stocking some brands, I think. Make it harder for people to find these brands, then say it's not worth keeping in stock...

Sure, could just be incompetence instead of malice, but in my opinion this is not the case here.

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#3380234 3-Jun-2025 18:46

freitasm:

~~Countdown~~ Woolworths trying to sneakily hide products.

I think there is something to this. I ran into it last week when I couldn't find a vegetarian item I normally buy and I also noticed most other stuff in the store had been relocated and shuffled around. I asked staff and apparently the item I know and love and have been buying there for years is no longer being stocked at all. The staff suggested I get it from the competition!

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#3380389 4-Jun-2025 10:27

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Handsomedan:

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I'd be grumpy if the previous service hadn't flagged that brakes would need doing. Unless you drive like an uncle used to after a few services the wear rate is predictable.

We thought we were up for pads at best.

Turned out the drum brakes at the rear were cooked and needed cylinders and shoes, the discs needed replacing and the pads were also toast.

Haven't had it serviced in ages as it's the wife's runabout which does about 5-10 km a day at most. I never drive it. Last WOF was at a testing station and brakes passed with no comments or warnings.

Not a Toyota or Mazda I'm guessing.

A Nissan Tiida - worth about what we just paid in repairs, but has only done around 120k kms of pretty easy driving - and we've had it for about 10 years.

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#3380391 4-Jun-2025 10:30

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Handsomedan:

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I'd be grumpy if the previous service hadn't flagged that brakes would need doing. Unless you drive like an uncle used to after a few services the wear rate is predictable.

We thought we were up for pads at best.

Turned out the drum brakes at the rear were cooked and needed cylinders and shoes, the discs needed replacing and the pads were also toast.

Haven't had it serviced in ages as it's the wife's runabout which does about 5-10 km a day at most. I never drive it. Last WOF was at a testing station and brakes passed with no comments or warnings.

How many kms on the discs? My brother got a decent bill for one of his cars needing pads and discs at some very low mileage. I berated him for not actually questioning it.

Now I know people drive differently but I got 200,000kms out of the discs on my last two cars. And I requested them to be changed, never got too thin, but I could feel the discs pulsing in certain situations. IE exiting a downhill off ramp at 100kmh where the front of the car was loaded more than normal.

I'm not saying the your discs were too thin. More a general rant.

First time we've had the discs replaced (they got machined about 40k kms ago) - car has done around 120k kms now, so they were probably due - although I am not sure how heavy the wife is on the brakes, and whether that is even a valid point at all...I know so little about the day to day maintenance of a car...and yet I can strip a bicycle down and put it back together quite happily.

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#3380392 4-Jun-2025 10:35

Unneeded brake maintenance is the easiest sell to people because "ooooh safety" gets peoples wallets open.

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#3380393 4-Jun-2025 10:36

freitasm:

~~Countdown~~ Woolworths trying to sneakily hide products.

I noticed last week something I wanted to buy was no longer in this area below - it was moved out of the way to the other side of the store. In place some house brands.

Today I noticed Mainland cheese blocks were moved all the way to the end, next to the cold meats, while the cheese are is now populated with their house brand of block cheese.

They're trying hard to justify not stocking some brands, I think. Make it harder for people to find these brands, then say it's not worth keeping in stock...

Sure, could just be incompetence instead of malice, but in my opinion this is not the case here.

I had a client once who explained the way that the supermarkets work with regard to "punishing" brands for not playing the game (i.e. deep deep discounts on demand).

They had some jars of something, which used to keep a prime spot, but they didn't agree with the heavy discount being demanded, so the supermarket shelving specialists used a programme on an iPad to place the product in the least noticeable and least saleable spot to punish them.
It's quite incredible. And exploitative.

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#3380420 4-Jun-2025 13:30

Someone (anyone) being offered $450M to kick a ball around some grass.

I love sport, but this is the very definition of insanity.

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#3380457 4-Jun-2025 15:20

networkn:

Someone (anyone) being offered $450M to kick a ball around some grass.

I love sport, but this is the very definition of insanity.

Top professional sportspeople and the amounts they are paid is insane.

All sports - not just football/basketball/NFL etc.

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#3380459 4-Jun-2025 15:23

Handsomedan:

networkn:

Someone (anyone) being offered $450M to kick a ball around some grass.

I love sport, but this is the very definition of insanity.

Top professional sportspeople and the amounts they are paid is insane.

All sports - not just football/basketball/NFL etc.

It is until you see the amount of revenue professional sports generate. The atheletes get that money because they are quite literally the product generating that revenue.

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#3380593 4-Jun-2025 22:51

Sure it's not a chicken and egg situation?

Sports need to charge higher gate prices and broadcast fees because said athletes demand higher salaries?

Though I agree with the sentiment. Way over paid for what they do.

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#3380600 5-Jun-2025 01:36

SepticSceptic:

Sure it's not a chicken and egg situation?

Sports need to charge higher gate prices and broadcast fees because said athletes demand higher salaries?

Though I agree with the sentiment. Way over paid for what they do.

Totally agree - but players’ earnings are simply a measure of value and value is determined by the price agreed upon between a willing seller and a willing buyer.

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#3380610 5-Jun-2025 07:50

Handsomedan:

freitasm:

~~Countdown~~ Woolworths trying to sneakily hide products.

I noticed last week something I wanted to buy was no longer in this area below - it was moved out of the way to the other side of the store. In place some house brands.

...

I had a client once who explained the way that the supermarkets work with regard to "punishing" brands for not playing the game (i.e. deep deep discounts on demand).

They had some jars of something, which used to keep a prime spot, but they didn't agree with the heavy discount being demanded, ...
It's quite incredible. And exploitative.

The Commerce Commission agrees...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360712573/proposed-new-rules-tackle-power-imbalance-between-supermarket-giants-and-small-suppliers

...and is changing some rules to try and fix it. The skeptic in me says it's unlikely to make much difference.

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#3380626 5-Jun-2025 08:51

Everyone's insistence on using the Snipping Tool to crop the URL and clock out of their screenshot every time they report an issue.

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