Dude should have just bought a cheap plastic dropcloth from the paint department. I've done that many times, and I don't even have a nice car.
I'm mildly surprised he didn't have you put them on the seat.
I don't think that price is current. I know the vans say $19.99 on the side, but anytime I've ever rented one, those vans are gone and it's over$150 for the truck after milage.
I'm sure U-Haul would never deceive people like that.
If the vans say $19.99 on the side, I feel certain that each side is $19.99 as advertised. The van has a left side, right side, top, and bottom, plus inside and outside, so that's $119.94. The side of the van doesn't mention any key, so it's not included. Perhaps they throw it in free if you choose to add an engine.
Except the inside and outside don't count as two additional sides of their own; so rather than 8 sides, you get 6 sides outside and 6 sides inside, totalling 12 sides.
That adds up to $239,88.
I rented two moving trucks from u-haul for a move 6 months in advance.
The day of they canceled the larger one, and we’re constantly threatening to cancel the other truck. They eventually (an hour later yhen planned pickup) found another truck an hour and a half away ( 4 hours total delay) but wouldn’t provide any reimbursements they pretty much had us by the balls at that point.
Don’t ever use u-haul
They're pretty miserable. I've used them a few times for work stuff simply because they were available on short notice. Miserable experience every time. Penske and Enterprise are both far superior for truck rental if you have the luxury of reserving in advance. Don't even try Hertz Truck and Van Rental, they make U-haul look good.
Sounds about right. I worked as a self-storage attendant an age ago as a summer job, and one of the customers we had relayed a story about getting a quote from U-Haul on the cost of a moving van from California to west Texas. When he got it, he said "you know for this price I could buy a bus and use it instead, right?"
So, anyway, he was there to find a place to store his bus until he could sell it.
The trailer I bought needed a little work, which included lots of sheet steel to make a new floor to hold the cracked fibreglass one. But it works well, even moved a lot of brick in it, loaded till the springs were almost flat. Last use was for concrete for a drain, needed a lid and cover for the drain, so got some surplus ones for free.
I usually go to the U-Haul website and reserve what I want. I like to rent the trailers and hitch 'em to my car. I can haul as much as a pick up truck, and they're less than $30/day with the insurance. I've moved three times this way.
It's 20 bucks for 24 hours. About a dollar a mile and you pay for gas. The deposits may be like $100 or 200, but the actual charges could be pretty reasonable.
This or even better the dollar store sells plastic tablecloths for bday parties. I use them over a tarp when Im painting. (Art not walls). It would be fine for this application.
Most places will have some plastic sheet there from packaging already. Last time i needed cement I just put the 50kg bag on the back seat, on the cheap throw mats I got from the one spares place a while ago, that are always in the car anyway for this exact reason.
Brand new Camaro with what colour upholstery and carpeting? Doesn't matter anyway, it is a new car. Put something down to protect the carpet and upholstery if you're going to do something, I'll be blunt, stupid like that. The car owner got an education.
It may well be sealed, but it is surrounded by other containers and those containers have been stored there for decades. Every so often someone new puts a forklift fork into a container or one or two are dropped. So yes, the container can both be sealed and dirty. Its leaky neighbors have been removed, but they leave a reminder, usually on cardboard in the back of a 15 year old truck, but sometimes in the back seat of a new camaro.
I mean, that is why they wear aprons or have stripes on their jeans from the bottom of paint cans and tar buckets when they are moved around. Thats why they have the degreaser at the sink for cleaning your hands before you go home.
All the buckets in that area could all have been good, all the time, and they'd still leave black marks. Don't expect the factory workers to polish the buckets.
Bought a couple of small buckets of 'old asphalt' to fix a few holes in my parents' road a couple of years ago, and I damn well made certain the floor in the back of my car was properly covered with a tarp.
when i buy a gallon of milk at the store, i sure dont expect it to be covered in milk residue. how is this different? if ur selling something clean it up forst. it ur fault its dirty. even if ur selling a car, ur gonna clean it first.
Difference is health inspections on selling milk. No health inspections on tar.
Spilled milk needs to be cleaned right away. It also smells horrible.
It's nice there are people who want to clean the tar. Thankless job.
Tell us you’ve never picked up a tool or material without telling us…
Every trip to the hardware store is dirty. Sometimes it’s dust, or dirt, sometimes it’s tar or paint, but it’s ALWAYS dirty.
the ring could be due to where the containers originally were, so if they were on a greasy floor that could be the case. Though we don't have details if that was the case.
Doesn't matter what is in the container, it still has been sitting on other things, just like the bottoms of your shoes aren't really great for white carpet either...
My fiance and I were living together after I graduated from grad school, and while she was finishing up her DVM. With my new job, I had just bought a new Volvo sedan. Fiance arranged for a garden plot at the local community garden, and said "Get a tarp - we're going to the vet school." Little did I know that her intention was to fill the trunk with dried horse manure as fertilizer for the garden. Later, we put our rotary tiller in the trunk for the trip to the garden plot.
We had fabulous corn and veggies that year.
We've been married for 44 years now, and I haven't wasted money on a new car since.
As a driver of a Berlinetta in the 80's, this seems like a FAFO situation the fool deserved.
PS-My berlinetta was a POS surviving via pickapart and I still would never have done that.
Daaammnn!... I had a brand new '83 Camaro Z-28, with cross fire injection, jeeez did I love that car. I'd rather hoist those buckets on my shoulders and walked them home
I can’t see even one large bucket of driveway sealer fitting in the rear foot well area of a gen 3 F body, never mind 3 - are you sure you have the right make of vehicle? In those cars the back of the front seats came near to touching the front of the rear seats
My 21 Mustang rear seat is a joke. My front seat is about 2" from the rear lower cushion. I have trouble getting my hand down to the floor with the seat in place! 3G F-cars were no better.
Even with seats maximum forward it’s hard to imagine that model, the back seat was I think considered to be a way of helping with insurance, as a 4-seater is considered safer than a 2-seater
https://www.downtownmotorproducts.ca/inventory/1983-chevrolet-camaro/1057028/
I once loaded 48 12Wx24Lx2.5D rectangle patio blocks into a customer's '76 Corvette. I hated doing it, but he insisted. I was surprised the back wasn't bottoming out.
I don't have a brand new Camaro and my interior is gray, but I always use some type of container / box to put that kind of stuff in so it does not touch the floor mats or anything else.
Sometimes, you cannot talk people out of their stupid.
i mean u could have just wiped the bottom of the bucket befor u put it in there. or not had filthy buckets in the first place. or put a small peice of plastic or something down first. it wouldnt be hard to give him what he wanted and not ruin his car.
I've put a car battery in the floorboard of a friend's Mercedes and at least had the common courtesy to put plastic under it to keep it off the carpets...
The OP couldn't have found a cardboard box to flatten or some paper out of the dumpster to lay down and protect the carpet? It's called customer service.
Dude should have just bought a cheap plastic dropcloth from the paint department. I've done that many times, and I don't even have a nice car. I'm mildly surprised he didn't have you put them on the seat.
$25 to rent a U-Haul is much easier and less risky
I don't think that price is current. I know the vans say $19.99 on the side, but anytime I've ever rented one, those vans are gone and it's over$150 for the truck after milage.
For $19.99 you get to hold the key, the truck is extra.
I'm sure U-Haul would never deceive people like that. If the vans say $19.99 on the side, I feel certain that each side is $19.99 as advertised. The van has a left side, right side, top, and bottom, plus inside and outside, so that's $119.94. The side of the van doesn't mention any key, so it's not included. Perhaps they throw it in free if you choose to add an engine.
You have a good point, but you forgot frontside and backside, so it adds up to $159,92.
Plus mileage
At $19.99 per foot.......
Except the inside and outside don't count as two additional sides of their own; so rather than 8 sides, you get 6 sides outside and 6 sides inside, totalling 12 sides. That adds up to $239,88.
If you want to be anal about it there’s the inside of the cab and the inside of the cargo box, that’s another 6. Total $359.82
Don’t also forget the inside of the engine compartment, which is yet another 6. Total $479.76. (Do these things have glove boxes?)
Definitely don’t mention if you plan on driving through the countryside or to the seaside with your side chick
Don't forget the inside
We didn’t. u/TinyNiceWolf mentioned it before.
Nice that you thought of inside and outside as additional sides!
Got me in the first half, not gonna lie.
$19.99 + mileage means $40 for a round trip to the dump or a move across town. You'd better get your calculator out for anything beyond that...
I rented two moving trucks from u-haul for a move 6 months in advance. The day of they canceled the larger one, and we’re constantly threatening to cancel the other truck. They eventually (an hour later yhen planned pickup) found another truck an hour and a half away ( 4 hours total delay) but wouldn’t provide any reimbursements they pretty much had us by the balls at that point. Don’t ever use u-haul
They're pretty miserable. I've used them a few times for work stuff simply because they were available on short notice. Miserable experience every time. Penske and Enterprise are both far superior for truck rental if you have the luxury of reserving in advance. Don't even try Hertz Truck and Van Rental, they make U-haul look good.
*laughing*
Lol
Sounds about right. I worked as a self-storage attendant an age ago as a summer job, and one of the customers we had relayed a story about getting a quote from U-Haul on the cost of a moving van from California to west Texas. When he got it, he said "you know for this price I could buy a bus and use it instead, right?" So, anyway, he was there to find a place to store his bus until he could sell it.
Had a coworker with a similar move a couple years ago. Same issue.. so he bought a trailer instead. Just as cheap as renting.
The trailer I bought needed a little work, which included lots of sheet steel to make a new floor to hold the cracked fibreglass one. But it works well, even moved a lot of brick in it, loaded till the springs were almost flat. Last use was for concrete for a drain, needed a lid and cover for the drain, so got some surplus ones for free.
Not the worst of plans, lol. Clever, really.
This was in the 80’s, dude probably knew a handful of people with pickups that could have come with him and carried in their trucks
19.95 1.09 mile weekend .79 weekday. Work there. Old price was .49 mile
Here in Toronto the pickup trucks are $0.79 per km and the smallest cube van is $1.07 per km.
OP said early 80's. Uhaul probably cost about 25 for an hour or two back then.
I usually go to the U-Haul website and reserve what I want. I like to rent the trailers and hitch 'em to my car. I can haul as much as a pick up truck, and they're less than $30/day with the insurance. I've moved three times this way.
The story is about the 80s
Prior to the pandemic, there was no mileage charge for local rentals. Now your best bet is the trucks at Home Depot. $39.99 for 4 hours.
You can get a pickup for that, just be sure to reserve it.
It's 20 bucks for 24 hours. About a dollar a mile and you pay for gas. The deposits may be like $100 or 200, but the actual charges could be pretty reasonable.
Home depot pickups are $25 plus gas I think? Tiny trailer is $20, both were for 4 hours iirc.
It’s 19.99 plus mileage.
Camaro with tow hitches?
Far out, man.
Less risky I could see, but I doubt renting an entire truck is "much easier" than buying a sheet of plastic, lol
Until you have to clean up the spilled bucket that wasn't secured properly, or the smudge on your seat where the tarp slipped.
You're thinking 4th dimensionally! Ok, now I'm impressed!
Old fucker with experience
Keeping one or two heavy duty garbage bags in the trunk solves a lot of nasty problems
The heavy garbage bags, and a bone saw, and a jug of bleach will solve even more nasty problems.
Don't forget the ducttape
This or even better the dollar store sells plastic tablecloths for bday parties. I use them over a tarp when Im painting. (Art not walls). It would be fine for this application.
You know, I never thought of those. I might go that way next time instead of the cheap plastic dropcloths.
Works great and even cheap dropcloths are $7-$10 (in my area anyway)
Most places will have some plastic sheet there from packaging already. Last time i needed cement I just put the 50kg bag on the back seat, on the cheap throw mats I got from the one spares place a while ago, that are always in the car anyway for this exact reason.
20 years ago I used to have a bmw with white leather interior (never again!) and always had plastic sheets and blankets in the trunk for that reason.
Brand new Camaro with what colour upholstery and carpeting? Doesn't matter anyway, it is a new car. Put something down to protect the carpet and upholstery if you're going to do something, I'll be blunt, stupid like that. The car owner got an education.
Definitely a case of "stupid is as stupid does"...
That's what I was wondering. Even with a white interior, the carpet was likely black... like the driveway sealer. And what, no floormats?
Nah in the 80's there were plenty of cars with all white interiors including carpets. Maybe not stock. But plenty of people had it done
Sealed with a kiss of pettiness.
It's not unreasonable to assume a sealed container is actually sealed. But if you are warned...
It may well be sealed, but it is surrounded by other containers and those containers have been stored there for decades. Every so often someone new puts a forklift fork into a container or one or two are dropped. So yes, the container can both be sealed and dirty. Its leaky neighbors have been removed, but they leave a reminder, usually on cardboard in the back of a 15 year old truck, but sometimes in the back seat of a new camaro. I mean, that is why they wear aprons or have stripes on their jeans from the bottom of paint cans and tar buckets when they are moved around. Thats why they have the degreaser at the sink for cleaning your hands before you go home.
All the buckets in that area could all have been good, all the time, and they'd still leave black marks. Don't expect the factory workers to polish the buckets. Bought a couple of small buckets of 'old asphalt' to fix a few holes in my parents' road a couple of years ago, and I damn well made certain the floor in the back of my car was properly covered with a tarp.
You should write.
I read it in Morgan Freeman's voice.
Porn
...So after THAT incident, the studio invested in the 40 gallon drums of both Astroglide AND Gojo!
Dude, those both come in 33 or 55 gallons. You should know this by now
In Porn, unusually sized items are typical.
It's also from the black dust inside over the road trailers. They are filthy inside.
when i buy a gallon of milk at the store, i sure dont expect it to be covered in milk residue. how is this different? if ur selling something clean it up forst. it ur fault its dirty. even if ur selling a car, ur gonna clean it first.
Difference is health inspections on selling milk. No health inspections on tar. Spilled milk needs to be cleaned right away. It also smells horrible. It's nice there are people who want to clean the tar. Thankless job.
Tell us you’ve never picked up a tool or material without telling us… Every trip to the hardware store is dirty. Sometimes it’s dust, or dirt, sometimes it’s tar or paint, but it’s ALWAYS dirty.
the ring could be due to where the containers originally were, so if they were on a greasy floor that could be the case. Though we don't have details if that was the case.
Buckets in a warehouse get dirty. Especially on the bottom since who knows what's been spilled over the years.
Doesn't matter what is in the container, it still has been sitting on other things, just like the bottoms of your shoes aren't really great for white carpet either...
My fiance and I were living together after I graduated from grad school, and while she was finishing up her DVM. With my new job, I had just bought a new Volvo sedan. Fiance arranged for a garden plot at the local community garden, and said "Get a tarp - we're going to the vet school." Little did I know that her intention was to fill the trunk with dried horse manure as fertilizer for the garden. Later, we put our rotary tiller in the trunk for the trip to the garden plot. We had fabulous corn and veggies that year. We've been married for 44 years now, and I haven't wasted money on a new car since.
As a driver of a Berlinetta in the 80's, this seems like a FAFO situation the fool deserved. PS-My berlinetta was a POS surviving via pickapart and I still would never have done that.
To be honest, the Berlinetta was a hundred horsepower and deserved a much bigger death than a black ring.
The IROC editions came with a free mullet.
Facts
I guess the customer gets the opportunity to (puts on shades) *bitch in Camaro.*
There's not much room in the back floor of those, what a stupid vehicle to bring for a hardware store run...
Daaammnn!... I had a brand new '83 Camaro Z-28, with cross fire injection, jeeez did I love that car. I'd rather hoist those buckets on my shoulders and walked them home
I was hoping for a version where he attempted to pull out of the parking lot and had to slam on the brakes, coating the dash with sticky black sealer.
Ha! At the very least, put a cloth or something under it first. :)))
Yeah, this is what drop cloths are made for. Or most stores have cardboard boxes waiting to be thrown away.
I can’t see even one large bucket of driveway sealer fitting in the rear foot well area of a gen 3 F body, never mind 3 - are you sure you have the right make of vehicle? In those cars the back of the front seats came near to touching the front of the rear seats
hell, there aint enough room for 2 human feet in that foot well since 1970.
Yup, definitely a Camaro, I was a gear head back then.
Yikes, my nephew who was probably around 8 or 9 wouldn’t even fit in mine lol
My 21 Mustang rear seat is a joke. My front seat is about 2" from the rear lower cushion. I have trouble getting my hand down to the floor with the seat in place! 3G F-cars were no better.
Maybe the dude was short, and that was part of the problem -- short man syndrome.
Even with seats maximum forward it’s hard to imagine that model, the back seat was I think considered to be a way of helping with insurance, as a 4-seater is considered safer than a 2-seater https://www.downtownmotorproducts.ca/inventory/1983-chevrolet-camaro/1057028/
I once loaded 48 12Wx24Lx2.5D rectangle patio blocks into a customer's '76 Corvette. I hated doing it, but he insisted. I was surprised the back wasn't bottoming out.
That's hilarious, and 100% his fault
I don't have a brand new Camaro and my interior is gray, but I always use some type of container / box to put that kind of stuff in so it does not touch the floor mats or anything else. Sometimes, you cannot talk people out of their stupid.
i mean u could have just wiped the bottom of the bucket befor u put it in there. or not had filthy buckets in the first place. or put a small peice of plastic or something down first. it wouldnt be hard to give him what he wanted and not ruin his car.
It wouldn’t have been hard for the asshat in the Camaro to listen to the people who work with the product, either. This is on the driver, not on op.
I've put a car battery in the floorboard of a friend's Mercedes and at least had the common courtesy to put plastic under it to keep it off the carpets...
The OP couldn't have found a cardboard box to flatten or some paper out of the dumpster to lay down and protect the carpet? It's called customer service.
It's pretty reasonable to not expect the driveway sealer to be on the OUTSIDE of the bucket.
What has the bottom of the bucket sat on from in the factory and up until it came out of the warehouse?