Not sure if we should regard Mike as the gate keeper, or tell him "if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all." I would say in this case, the OP responded in similar fashion, after the fact, but still, and yet ended up with the information he/she needed. It's not like everyone on here wasn't younger at one point and thought they knew everything. It's entirely possible that Mike hasn't gotten laid in awhile. And yet, I get laid all the time, and still know that I have to work on my people skills.
Kurt
it’s like this. Those with young children, or who have had kids even in the last 20 years have had to deal with “ participation trophies”.
You can absolutely suck ass in a particular sport as a child, but because you were out there sucking ass, you still deserve a trophy for doing it.
As these kids have grown up now, they don’t have to try,...they are expecting that somebody else is gonna do that for them . If the hobby isn’t a DIY thing, a literal learning experience for how to work on, and master the amazing machine that is a car, then it's just another S550 car show.
When somebody comes on here, shows aptitude and desire, and isn’t an illiterate thumb typing dump phone user, you guys never hear a peep from me. Conversely, when someone else is too challenged to even look up a sender part number ( that should’ve came in the damn gauge box in the first place ) and then comes on here expecting someone else to find that out for them...a little hand slap is in order. And just as soon as that happens, out come the “ Mike‘s such a prick, slap his hands too“ brigade.
If all you guys want to talk all day long about wax, mufflers, and wheel choices, by all means, step up and look up the sender part numbers for the occasional guy asking for it, cause when nobody here is even bothering to try and install their own gauges anymore, we're firmly on the path to talking about wax, mufflers, and wheels.
For me, I think participation trophies are bull sht,.....but that’s just my opinion.