As promised...photos.
They FINALLY arrived at the shop. Now it’s time to box these bad boys up and start sending them out to you guys and gals.
This has been a pain in the butt from the beginning, but worth it in the end when we are still able to provide parts to such a niche market (slowly...but we get it done).
Even the delivery had a story to it and wasn’t exactly smooth.
I mentioned earlier about to issue with the shipper...well...the guy that ended up dropping these things off had to be a rookie. Since the shop is share with the in-law’s AC business, there are tons of trucks of all sizes that are dropping off various AC units and components (along with our stuff here and there). They all are able to easily back right up to the bay door so they can use the lift gate to lower whatever is being delivered and we can use our pallet jack to move it wherever it needs to be within the bay.
This dude does it all wrong. He pulls straight in and can’t figure out how to get turned around our big ass parking area. Most drivers will utilize the huge driveway to get turned around and just back up. NOPE. LOL. I’m still at work, so i missed these shenanigans in person. My mother-in-law and the office lady see this going on as he is nowhere near the bay. He gets out of the truck and proceeds to get ready to pull the pallets out and lower the lift gate. They tell him that he needs to back up to the bay with those because he won’t be able to make it to the bay from where he is parked. As most truckers seem to be experts (no offense to any of you guys and gals that may be truckers), he tells them that it is not possible for him to back the truck up of that size to that bay door. Their response is...”funny since trucks of your size do it nearly every day here. Keep in mind that our parking area is a mix of “hard pack” and recycled asphalt. He gets the front sway bar pallet out with his pallet jack...yup...now there is a 1500 pound pallet of parts stuck in this essentially unpaved surface.
He is struggling and struggling to get the pallet to move but no luck. Of course the pallet is not completely off the lift gate so he can’t get the other pallet. AND he’d be stuck anyway since the pallet is in the way for him to get the truck out and leave. LOL. My father-in-law shows up about this time. Luckily he is a old gritty dude, so now there are two dudes pulling and struggling to get this pallet to move. As a side note, we do have a tractor here with forklift attachments, but my in-laws just got their new house built and the tractor was at their place to do landscape work. If the guys notified us ahead of time of what day they were going to be here, we could have ensured the tractor was here to move the pallets.
Eventually they made it into the bay (as you see in the photos). All the sway bars were segregated enough to prevent powder coat damage. Now it’s time to make the boxes for these and get the parts out of here. Not sure how Wednesday will delay any shipments with it being as holiday, but theoretically there should be some of you all in the garage installing some XII Performance sway bar goodness.
Now if I could just gets these damn drop coils here we ordered in January...yes January. We would literally be placing another order by now with what is/could have been sold. There is a short list of VERY patient customers waiting for these, 13 refunds, and 10ish people that are waiting for me to let them know they are here so they can place the order. #SmallBusinessOwnerProblems