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Omfg!!!
Guess what the dumbasses at Acura of Pleasanton did. So, I get my first service last week. I bring the car home and my friend notices there oil on the ground after I pull out of the driveway the next day. I look underneath and tap the drain plug. IT'S TOTALLY FUCKIN' LOOSE. How stupid do you have to be to forget to tighten the oil drain plug???
Racer
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did you bring it back with all that nice cheap oil dripping on their ground. "Hey dipshit service person, i just had my car serviced, and can you tell me what is wrong in this picture" hehe sorry im still in a PO mood because i just got off the phone with Acura's Regional survey group.
sorry to hear about their incompetence
sorry to hear about their incompetence
Damn, that's pretty inept...
Instructor
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I just changed MY OWN oil this afternoon and made sure the TL's oil plug was torqued to 39 NM. Another example of why I do my own minor service. Also, rotated tires and replaced the filter after 3200 miles. My first dealer service on a brand new BMW RT motorcycle 4 years ago included their dropping the bike off the service stand - all the bodywork had to be replaced to properly match colors. Dealer's techs must be under tremendous pressure to HURRY!
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Originally Posted by TLover
Guess what the dumbasses at Acura of Pleasanton did. So, I get my first service last week. I bring the car home and my friend notices there oil on the ground after I pull out of the driveway the next day. I look underneath and tap the drain plug. IT'S TOTALLY FUCKIN' LOOSE. How stupid do you have to be to forget to tighten the oil drain plug???
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Originally Posted by TLover
Guess what the dumbasses at Acura of Pleasanton did. So, I get my first service last week. I bring the car home and my friend notices there oil on the ground after I pull out of the driveway the next day. I look underneath and tap the drain plug. IT'S TOTALLY FUCKIN' LOOSE. How stupid do you have to be to forget to tighten the oil drain plug???
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well..i must agree w/ you guys on this pleasanton issue. When my parents brought in our 2002 TL-S to them for something..(unsure right now)..we had left it there for about couple hours. My parents went back there to pick it up couple hours later, but had to wait a lil cuz they were bringing it to get a car wash. When the driver came back, my parents immediatly took it..cuz they were in a rush..they had to be somewhere... When they came back home, my mom had walked in front of the car and saw this fat ass bump. My parents were like.."i never knew bumps could get that big on a car without some big damage." It supposedly was like a fat pimple. It protruded outwards (weird huh?). When my parents saw that, they immediatly drove back to pleasanton (fuckin pain in the ass) and had confronted them and they asked the driver wtf happened. The stupid college dumbass denied anything to do with it. He said he didn't know how the hell it go there. Eventually..a woman who had inspected the car before it was left to them..had confirmed to us that we had no bump at all when we had dropped it off here. By that time..it somehow went back into it's normal shape...and so my parents didn't do anything about it cuz it went back to normal. Good thing i didn't see it..cuz i would've freaked out.
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BJ,
It is because of instances like this that us anal people change our own oil. You never know which kid the dealer hired to change your oil. The dealer may do this to save their ASE-payroll mechanics for the real repairs.
For us weekend mechanics, it's an easy enough thing to do but the consequences for doing it poorly are disasterous.
OTOH, I quote another member's post in a different thread:
It is because of instances like this that us anal people change our own oil. You never know which kid the dealer hired to change your oil. The dealer may do this to save their ASE-payroll mechanics for the real repairs.
For us weekend mechanics, it's an easy enough thing to do but the consequences for doing it poorly are disasterous.
OTOH, I quote another member's post in a different thread:
Originally Posted by kefler
Oil Change Instructions
"Oil Change Instructions For Women"
1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube after 3 months (or 3000 miles since the last oil
change.)
2) Drink a cup of coffee.
3) write a check and
4) leave with a properly maintained vehicle
Money spent:
$29.00 for oil change
$0.00 for coffee
Total = $29.00
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Oil Change Instructions For Men"
1) Go to auto parts store
2) Write a check for $50.00 for:
oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner, and a pine tree scented air
freshener
3) Discover that the used oil container is full.
4) Instead of taking it back to O'Reilly to recycle, dump in hole in back
yard.
5) Open a beer and drink it.
6) Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
7) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car.
8) In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
9) Place drain pan under engine.
10) Look for 9/16 box end wrench.
11) Give up and use crescent wrench.
12) Unscrew drain plug.
13) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: get hot oil on you in process.
14) Clean up mess.
15) Have another beer while watching oil drain.
16) Look for oil filter wrench.
17) Give up; puncture oil filter with screwdriver and twist off.
18) Beer.
19) Buddy shows up;
20) Finish case of beer with buddy. Finish oil change tomorrow.
21) Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car.
22) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 21.
23) Beer? No, drank it all yesterday.
24) Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
25) Install new oil filter (making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to
gasket surface)
26) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
27) Remember drain plug from step 12.
28) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
29) Discover that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard, along
with drain plug
30) Drink beer.
31) Uncover hole and sift for drain plug.
32) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor.
33) Drink beer.
34) Slip with wrench tightening drain plug, banging knuckles.
35) Bang head on floor boards in reaction to step 34.
36) Begin cussing fit.
37) Throw wrench.
38) Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss December (1992).
39) Beer.
40) Clean up and bandage as required to stop blood flow.
41) Beer.
42) Beer.
43) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil.
44) Beer.
45) Lower car from jack stands.
46) Accidentally crush one of the jack stands.
47) Move car back
48) Apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during step 32.
49) Beer.
50) Test drive car.
51) Get pulled over: arrested for driving under the influence.
52) Make bail
53) Get car from impound yard.
Money spent:
$50.00 parts
$25.00 beer
$75.00 replacement set of jack stands:
$1,000.00 Bail
$200.00 Impound and towing fee
$1,350.00 Total
"Oil Change Instructions For Women"
1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube after 3 months (or 3000 miles since the last oil
change.)
2) Drink a cup of coffee.
3) write a check and
4) leave with a properly maintained vehicle
Money spent:
$29.00 for oil change
$0.00 for coffee
Total = $29.00
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Oil Change Instructions For Men"
1) Go to auto parts store
2) Write a check for $50.00 for:
oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner, and a pine tree scented air
freshener
3) Discover that the used oil container is full.
4) Instead of taking it back to O'Reilly to recycle, dump in hole in back
yard.
5) Open a beer and drink it.
6) Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
7) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car.
8) In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
9) Place drain pan under engine.
10) Look for 9/16 box end wrench.
11) Give up and use crescent wrench.
12) Unscrew drain plug.
13) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: get hot oil on you in process.
14) Clean up mess.
15) Have another beer while watching oil drain.
16) Look for oil filter wrench.
17) Give up; puncture oil filter with screwdriver and twist off.
18) Beer.
19) Buddy shows up;
20) Finish case of beer with buddy. Finish oil change tomorrow.
21) Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car.
22) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 21.
23) Beer? No, drank it all yesterday.
24) Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
25) Install new oil filter (making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to
gasket surface)
26) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
27) Remember drain plug from step 12.
28) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
29) Discover that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard, along
with drain plug
30) Drink beer.
31) Uncover hole and sift for drain plug.
32) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor.
33) Drink beer.
34) Slip with wrench tightening drain plug, banging knuckles.
35) Bang head on floor boards in reaction to step 34.
36) Begin cussing fit.
37) Throw wrench.
38) Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss December (1992).
39) Beer.
40) Clean up and bandage as required to stop blood flow.
41) Beer.
42) Beer.
43) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil.
44) Beer.
45) Lower car from jack stands.
46) Accidentally crush one of the jack stands.
47) Move car back
48) Apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during step 32.
49) Beer.
50) Test drive car.
51) Get pulled over: arrested for driving under the influence.
52) Make bail
53) Get car from impound yard.
Money spent:
$50.00 parts
$25.00 beer
$75.00 replacement set of jack stands:
$1,000.00 Bail
$200.00 Impound and towing fee
$1,350.00 Total
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