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January 20, 2008 / Sunday
I Sense The End Is Near
Gave my car some much needed maintenance and cleaning today, and wasn't happy with what I found. First, there was the usual "I was lazy/stupid and let the Oil Stop guys work on my car" rarrs. For one, my oil filter cap, which never leaks, was leaking. How did they screw that one up? Oh, look here, they left the o-ring they were supposed to use to replace the old one on the filter. Thanks for NOT REPLACING MY O-RING. I bet you didn't replace the other one, either. MAYBE THAT'S WHY MY OIL FILTER CAP IS LEAKING. This is in addition to all the battery terminal connection problems I've been having since they sprayed some sort of greasy crap on it. Oh, and they keep losing screws. Every time I take my car to them, they lose one of the Torx screws for the skid plate. All the other screws and bolts they don't lose, they strip. And did I mention they don't actually know how much oil to put in my car? Isn't that their main business?
Them (yelling back and forth as is custom there): 4.5 quarts of Mobil 1 0-40!
Me: Excuse me, my car takes 5.5 quarts.
Them: But it says right here, 4.5 quarts (shows me incorrect info for my car because they never figured out the right model to enter into the computer even though I told them exactly what to enter several times already)
Me: Can you please just put 5.5 in?
Them (after putting 5.5 in and checking the dipstick): Hey look, 5.5 is right!
Me (to myself): Well DUH, it's my fucking car!
It's just so convenient to have someone else change my oil, though, especially when it's cold and/or rainy out.
In more disturbing/less whiny news, I went to fill up my tires and found that my passenger side front rim is bent. I've hit a few newly formed potholes *really* hard since that crazy rainstorm a couple weeks ago, and while I'm glad my tire didn't blowout when it happened, I'm not at all happy about this.
Yet another thing to fix on my car. I'm approaching an expensive 100,000 mile service soon and the list of annoyances/needed fixes is much longer than I'd like to deal with. Plus, there will likely be more things to fix once I finish with this round of repairs. I think it may be time to look for a replacement.
January 20, 2008 06:19 PM | Grease Monkey:GTI
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Buncha minimum wage greasemonkeys. I've used them, but I grit my teeth the whole time and wonder what they'll screw up. I'm very thankful for my local repair place. Oil changes, state inspections, new tires, rotations and other stuff at reasonable prices and if something does go wrong, they fix it no questions asked.
Posted by: Mike at January 21, 2008 05:30 AM