diff --git a/test/test_rangeify.py b/test/test_rangeify.py
index 1d4f48abe5..9379390ae5 100644
--- a/test/test_rangeify.py
+++ b/test/test_rangeify.py
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ class TestRangeify(unittest.TestCase):
     ba = A.expand(N, N)
     ((ba+1).sum(axis=1) + (ba+2).sum(axis=0)).realize()
 
+  def test_partial_contig(self):
+    A = Tensor.empty(64, 64, 64)
+    ret = A.sum(axis=2).contiguous(arg=(1,)).sum(axis=1)
+    ret.realize()
+
   def test_double_gemm(self):
     A = Tensor.empty(N, N)
     B = Tensor.empty(N, N)
diff --git a/tinygrad/codegen/__init__.py b/tinygrad/codegen/__init__.py
index fe1949ddfa..b0c31c25a4 100644
--- a/tinygrad/codegen/__init__.py
+++ b/tinygrad/codegen/__init__.py
@@ -72,14 +72,14 @@ def _get_rewrites_for_renderer(opts:Renderer, linearizer:bool, _QUANTIZE, _DEVEC
   # ** expander (expand_rewrite) **
   ret.append(RewriteStep(sym+migrate_indexing, name="initial symbolic"))
 
-  # expand
-  ret.append(RewriteStep(sym+expander, name="expander"))
+  # add locals
+  ret.append(RewriteStep(pm_flatten_range+pm_add_buffers_local+rangeify_codegen, name="add local buffers"))
 
   # add gpu dims (late). this also handles UNROLL range
   ret.append(RewriteStep(pm_add_gpudims, lambda _: opts, name="add gpudims"))
 
-  # add locals
-  ret.append(RewriteStep(pm_flatten_range+pm_add_buffers_local+rangeify_codegen, name="add local buffers"))
+  # expand
+  ret.append(RewriteStep(sym+expander, name="expander"))
 
   # ** devectorizer (full_graph_rewrite) **
   # remove reduce
diff --git a/tinygrad/codegen/late/expander.py b/tinygrad/codegen/late/expander.py
index bd88548d87..50dafcbdbf 100644
--- a/tinygrad/codegen/late/expander.py
+++ b/tinygrad/codegen/late/expander.py
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ expander = PatternMatcher([
   (UPat(Ops.UNROLL, name="outer", src=(UPat(Ops.UNROLL, name="inner"),)),
    lambda outer, inner: UOp(Ops.UNROLL, outer.dtype, (inner.src[0],), inner.arg+outer.arg)),
   # do expansion
-  (UPat((*GroupOp.ALU, Ops.CAST, Ops.BITCAST, Ops.GEP, Ops.WMMA, Ops.LOAD, Ops.STORE, Ops.INDEX, Ops.BUFFERIZE,
+  (UPat((*GroupOp.ALU, Ops.CAST, Ops.BITCAST, Ops.GEP, Ops.WMMA, Ops.LOAD, Ops.STORE, Ops.INDEX, #Ops.BUFFERIZE,
          Ops.VECTORIZE, Ops.IF, Ops.REDUCE), name="root", custom_early_reject=set([Ops.UNROLL])), do_expand),
   (UPat(Ops.CONTRACT, name="con"), do_contract),
   # BARRIERs aren't actually expanded
diff --git a/tinygrad/uop/ops.py b/tinygrad/uop/ops.py
index 041011d9c3..8ed9e107c8 100644
--- a/tinygrad/uop/ops.py
+++ b/tinygrad/uop/ops.py
@@ -207,8 +207,10 @@ class UOp(MathTrait, metaclass=UOpMetaClass):
     ret: dict[UOp, None] = {}
     if self.op in range_start.keys():
       for s in self.src[:range_start[self.op]]: ret.update(s.ranges)
-      for s in self.src[range_start[self.op]:]:
-        if s in ret: del ret[s]
+      delete_ranges = self.src[range_start[self.op]:]
+      if len(delete_ranges):
+        for s in UOp.sink(*delete_ranges).ranges:
+          if s in ret: del ret[s]
     elif self.op in {Ops.BARRIER}:
       ret = {x:None for x in self.src[0].ranges if x.arg[1] != AxisType.LOCAL}
     else: