Kelly Lenza / LividLipids / softbodytendermind / ass_child / photopotamus - "Radical body liberationist”, Intentionally Repulsive, Uber woke middle-aged SJW influencer wannabe, doxed her former therapist for getting WLS, ate her way to heart failure

[Berserker Armor]

Waiting patiently for Kelly's response to Trump.

Too busy having a tough day. I assume arguing with Jerry.

 

[often puzzled]

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Too busy having a tough day. I assume arguing with Jerry.

Bet your daughters would also benefit from some "snugs and reassurances," Kelly. She's awful. Those poor kids.

 

[toilet_rainbow]

Kelly Lenza and the $9300 driver's seat



Gross overestimation or not,

 

[Ass Dan]

The dealership is almost always the worst, most expensive option. Maybe it's different where Kelly lives (doubtful), but where I live there are many small mechanic shops that can source replacement parts way cheaper and charge a lot less for the labor as well. And they'll probably get it done in significantly less time too. She's just so incapable. The embodiment of "I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas."

Lose 200 pounds and your next driver's seat will last the life of the car. Just a thought.

 

[LonesomeDud]

Maybe I've been hanging out in BP too long, but I suspect Kelly knows this is the most expensive option and does this on purpose and just does this so she can complain.

She mentioned it was the dealer for a reason to bait innocent men into "mansplainimg" to her.

 

[DefCon Dumb]

I’m struggling to understand how a simple car seat can cost that much, even factoring in labor. I wouldn’t think it’s that complicated a job and even if the seat is leather, that seems like a real ripoff.

 

[Clotso Coof]

I’m struggling to understand how a simple car seat can cost that much, even factoring in labor.

I wonder if she was such a cunt to the dealership about her fat ass breaking the seat, that they gave her the "fuck you" price? Home contractors will often do that. If someone is an asshole to them while requesting a bid, they'll just double the bid to make the person go away and bother some other company.

 

[toilet_rainbow]

The dealership is almost always the worst, most expensive option. Maybe it's different where Kelly lives (doubtful), but where I live there are many small mechanic shops that can source replacement parts way cheaper and charge a lot less for the labor as well. And they'll probably get it done in significantly less time too. She's just so incapable. The embodiment of "I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas."

Lose 200 pounds and your next driver's seat will last the life of the car. Just a thought.

I’m trying to think of a single person in my life that has replaced a driver’s seat before they replaced the actual car. Even the one person I can think of that should’ve done it (sunken in, giant hole exposing the cushioning) either just dealt with it as is or placed a pillow atop towards the end because it wasn’t worth the effort or cost of upholstery (let alone completely replacing) to him.

Maybe I've been hanging out in BP too long, but I suspect Kelly knows this is the most expensive option and does this on purpose and just does this so she can complain.

She mentioned it was the dealer for a reason to bait innocent men into "mansplainimg" to her.

I can see Kelly only going to the dealership because she thinks she has a good deal or has a warranty through them. She gets next to no engagement except from pooners on Tumblr, so not like they would be able to mansplain that to her.

I’m struggling to understand how a simple car seat can cost that much, even factoring in labor. I wouldn’t think it’s that complicated a job and even if the seat is leather, that seems like a real ripoff.

Trying to look (mostly getting suggestions for baby seats even after specifying “drivers seat”). Even the most extreme, rough estimate I could find was a thousand bucks to replace the entire thing.

I like @Clotso Coof ’s theory, too. Quoting that high is a great passive aggressive way to tell a disagreeable customer to buzz off.

 

[glass_houses]

Trying to look (mostly getting suggestions for baby seats even after specifying “drivers seat”). Even the most extreme, rough estimate I could find was a thousand bucks to replace the entire thing.

I'm actually wondering if it weren't just the seat replacement being quoted for, and instead the quote includes the seat, fittings, floor etc all together.

 

[LonesomeDud]

Also this feels like she's trying to bait innocent Kiwis into making fun of her outfatting/sharting her driver's seat into oblivion.

 

[glass_houses]

Also this feels like she's trying to bait innocent Kiwis into making fun of her outfatting/sharting her driver's seat into oblivion.

The thread has been a little quiet lately. Narcissists always get upset when no one's paying attention to them. And she's much more likely to get sympathy from randoms for being bullied for fat, as opposed to being called a child abuser hell bent on propagating the next generation of severely mentally disordered people.

 

[brooky]

It could be, but I also remember her arguing with chatbots and then posting a sad, fat silhouette with the text "is it an autistic thing to not realize chatbots are not real people?'

Like I can believe it being on purpose, but I can also believe her being clueless and posting lots of thoughts that could have just stayed in her head, as she often does.

 

[Diet Coke 4 Life]

Nah, I can believe it.

The heated and ventilated seat for a 2019-2024 Kia Forte (I'm unsure which model of Kia she's driving) is sold new starting at $1500, not including dealership markups. All electrical connections for seat incline, positioning, raising/lowering, lumbar support adjustment, and wiring into the controls for heating and cooling are going to take... if it was just me, about 5 hours (because I am slow and very, very careful). Assume 3 hours for a dealership technician. But now we have to use dealership technician pricing, which is typically $280/hour. So that's $840 for the technician's time. We're at $2,340, plus taxes which I'd say drive it up to a nice $2,500. For replacing the one seat. Hopefully there's no frame repair or seat track repair that needs to go in with that, because now we're looking to add another $1K to that easily.

Now note that's for the base seat with heating and ventilation.

There's a carbon fiber molded race seat that costs $5,500 new. Add in your wiring and your taxes, and you're up around that $6,500 mark. And with that, you also have to replace your restraint system, because a lap and shoulder belt won't cut it - it's designed to have a 5 point harness that no seatbelt extender will aid in the task of securing a fatty in place.

 

[stupid frog]

Nah, I can believe it.

The heated and ventilated seat for a 2019-2024 Kia Forte (I'm unsure which model of Kia she's driving) is sold new starting at $1500, not including dealership markups. All electrical connections for seat incline, positioning, raising/lowering, lumbar support adjustment, and wiring into the controls for heating and cooling are going to take... if it was just me, about 5 hours (because I am slow and very, very careful). Assume 3 hours for a dealership technician. But now we have to use dealership technician pricing, which is typically $280/hour. So that's $840 for the technician's time. We're at $2,340, plus taxes which I'd say drive it up to a nice $2,500. For replacing the one seat. Hopefully there's no frame repair or seat track repair that needs to go in with that, because now we're looking to add another $1K to that easily.

Now note that's for the base seat with heating and ventilation.

There's a carbon fiber molded race seat that costs $5,500 new. Add in your wiring and your taxes, and you're up around that $6,500 mark. And with that, you also have to replace your restraint system, because a lap and shoulder belt won't cut it - it's designed to have a 5 point harness that no seatbelt extender will aid in the task of securing a fatty in place.

I hate modern car shit.

 

[a hapless toad]

if it was just me, about 5 hours (because I am slow and very, very careful)

Imagine if she, or even her husband, were capable enough of doing it themselves!

 

[Breadbear]

Nah, I can believe it.

The heated and ventilated seat for a 2019-2024 Kia Forte (I'm unsure which model of Kia she's driving) is sold new starting at $1500, not including dealership markups. All electrical connections for seat incline, positioning, raising/lowering, lumbar support adjustment, and wiring into the controls for heating and cooling are going to take... if it was just me, about 5 hours (because I am slow and very, very careful). Assume 3 hours for a dealership technician. But now we have to use dealership technician pricing, which is typically $280/hour. So that's $840 for the technician's time. We're at $2,340, plus taxes which I'd say drive it up to a nice $2,500. For replacing the one seat. Hopefully there's no frame repair or seat track repair that needs to go in with that, because now we're looking to add another $1K to that easily.

Now note that's for the base seat with heating and ventilation.

There's a carbon fiber molded race seat that costs $5,500 new. Add in your wiring and your taxes, and you're up around that $6,500 mark. And with that, you also have to replace your restraint system, because a lap and shoulder belt won't cut it - it's designed to have a 5 point harness that no seatbelt extender will aid in the task of securing a fatty in place.

So our error was in assuming she has a normal car seat like literally everyone else, and not some fancy everything electric, here's a fan to cool/warm your ass crack type. Probably has built-in shart protectors as well.

If I had to spend all day every day in a car, I could see how that would be justified. But if your only reason is "lol fat ass crack sweat," get the normal kind that's easy to fix.

 

[Otterly]

I’m struggling to understand how a simple car seat can cost that much, even factoring in labor. I wouldn’t think it’s that complicated a job and even if the seat is leather, that seems like a real ripoff.

She isn’t going for a new seat, she’s setting the scene for getting a new car.
‘Oh it’s so expensive to repair I may as well get a new one.’ She’s probably pestering Jerry to buy her a whole new car. This is just garnering support for it

 

[Breadbear]

She isn’t going for a new seat, she’s setting the scene for getting a new car.
‘Oh it’s so expensive to repair I may as well get a new one.’ She’s probably pestering Jerry to buy her a whole new car. This is just garnering support for it

She hasn't had her car for very long though. 2 years at most, iirc. But... If both she and Jerry have their own cars (likely), and this happened in the "older" one, I could see this happening.

 

[Angry New Ager]

Kelly Lenza and the $9300 driver's seat

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Gross overestimation or not,

My first reaction was, "Well, just go to a junkyard and pull a seat from a totaled Kia, and put it in yourself—" before remembering that current-year cars don't work that way, and that even removing an aftermarket driver's seat would have to be done carefully, by somebody who knows what they're doing, which means not Kelly or Jerry.

So my only other advice would be, "Don't be so fat you break car seats; or if you're going to insist upon being that fat, make enough money to afford repairing the shit you break."

I wonder if she was such a cunt to the dealership about her fat ass breaking the seat, that they gave her the "fuck you" price? Home contractors will often do that. If someone is an asshole to them while requesting a bid, they'll just double the bid to make the person go away and bother some other company.

Yeah, it's the Asshole Surcharge.

But the dealership may have quoted her a really high price in an attempt to get the car for rock-bottom trade-in value towards a new vehicle. If successful, they can then order the seat, put it in, detail the car, stick it on the lot at KBB value, and turn a nice profit on it (especially if the next buyer finances it through them).

So Kelly may be getting a new car because it turned out to be the cheaper and easier option—you can't tell me they have $9300 in cash on hand, or available in the form of low-interest credit.

I’m trying to think of a single person in my life that has replaced a driver’s seat before they replaced the actual car. Even the one person I can think of that should’ve done it (sunken in, giant hole exposing the cushioning) either just dealt with it as is or placed a pillow atop towards the end because it wasn’t worth the effort or cost of upholstery (let alone completely replacing) to him.

My very first car was a '75 Chevy Nova that had been owned by a traveling salesman who was massively fat. He'd practically lived in it, so the springs in the driver's side of the front seat were absolutely shot, leaving a massive butt-impact crater. When I sat in the seat, I was effectively sitting on the floor, and couldn't see over the steering wheel until I jammed a set of LA phone books underneath to prop the seat up (and I still needed a cushion on top of that). I never bothered to ask how much it would cost to fix it because I already knew the car wasn't worth it.

Oh, hey, and let's not forget Corissa, who fatly broke the seat adjustment mechanism on her 2019 Nissan Murano (the one she bragged about spending $52K for and finally paid off a few weeks ago). She's been pig mad at Nissan for refusing to cover the repair under warranty, and driving it around for most of the time she's owned it with a driver's seat that won't adjust.

The common denominator in both of these stories? FAT. Don't be fat, kids; it just makes everything in your life worse and more expensive.

Nah, I can believe it.

The heated and ventilated seat for a 2019-2024 Kia Forte (I'm unsure which model of Kia she's driving) is sold new starting at $1500, not including dealership markups. All electrical connections for seat incline, positioning, raising/lowering, lumbar support adjustment, and wiring into the controls for heating and cooling are going to take... if it was just me, about 5 hours (because I am slow and very, very careful). Assume 3 hours for a dealership technician. But now we have to use dealership technician pricing, which is typically $280/hour. So that's $840 for the technician's time. We're at $2,340, plus taxes which I'd say drive it up to a nice $2,500. For replacing the one seat. Hopefully there's no frame repair or seat track repair that needs to go in with that, because now we're looking to add another $1K to that easily.

Now note that's for the base seat with heating and ventilation.

There's a carbon fiber molded race seat that costs $5,500 new. Add in your wiring and your taxes, and you're up around that $6,500 mark. And with that, you also have to replace your restraint system, because a lap and shoulder belt won't cut it - it's designed to have a 5 point harness that no seatbelt extender will aid in the task of securing a fatty in place.

She drives a 2019-'21 Optima; I once used my autismo ADHD hyperfocus superpowers to identify the make/model/year from a pic she posted that included her dashboard.

At any rate, I'm sticking with the "Get the car for cheap as a trade-in by quoting an insanely high repair cost" tactic on the part of the dealership for most of that $9300. But even without that, it would still be expensive.

 

[Diet Coke 4 Life]

Knowing what model and model year she has... I can easily see $9300 for a new seat. The seat assembly is comprised of four major sub-assemblies, which come in between $1,500 to $2,400 each, based on the features of the seat. So if you have every single seat feature (electric-every-positioning-adjustment-available, heating/cooling, and fucking air bags built into the back panels to cushion the driver in the event of a crash) you can easily have a seat that comes in at >$8k just in the parts. Then you get to pay for the technician to install it.

Yeah, the airbags are what make that fucking ridiculous.

That's, of course, assuming you go all new. Much easier to find the fully assembled seat from a third party source (they range from $300 for beat-to-shit manual-everything seats to around $1,700 for 'we have most've the features but are obviously from a wrecked vehicle' lightly-used offerings), and then find a competent good-ol'-boy to install it. Which'll void warrantees and, in the event that you're dealing with an air-bag equipped seat, potentially total out the vehicle due to all the regulations and rules and shit that go behind airbag safety systems so far as insurance is concerned.

Hope this all makes sense - been having blueberry muscat tonight and I think this makes sense except it might not to someone who's sober.