Needed a balance, rotation, & alignment on the CLS. Seemed simple......
I go to a different place cause I was in the area doing some work, & they had a hunter 9000 balancer. I had work done on another car before without a problem.
So I park, but the damn parking curb was this HUGE ass one & I hit it a wee bit too much. I then pulled back & the entire lower engine cover folded underneath itself. I'm like damn! WTF! I go get a tech & ask to use a jack. So I jack it up & release the pressure & it bends back. Most of the clips are broken though. I was a bit pissed off so I left it there & went to do my work(1pm) & returned hours later(3pm)

As I get back I see a bunch of techs around the front of my car. So I go over. I see the drivers side of my bumper completely off the little hooks. Appearantly my car was a bit too low for the lift ramps. Tech told me it went up fine he excepted down would not be a problem. So they are all around trying to get the bumper back on. They take it & put it on a real lift & an hour later the bumper is back on. I inspected it & everything was good.

So then I go to pay the bill, Price was fine but going over it I see they had to replace a wheel stud & lug nut. For some reason they sheared it clean. Strange since it was TQ'd by hand by me.
By this point I'm actually not mad at all. I was happy the bumper was ok, so I pay & leave.

However I needed gas so I went & got that. The pump shut off didn't shut off so it spewed gas all over the place as I was in the store bathroom.
You'd think someone would see this & do something. NO, gas was all over the place before an attendant cared enough to do anything. So now I have gas all over the car, on me, & wasted $$.

I then go home get stuck in pooring rain.
Finally I'm home(5pm), & vow to have a better day tomorrow

 

Rough day. I didn't have such a great one myself. Too many things going wrong at work and I got wiped and didn't go work out afterwards. Came home & took a 45 minute nap - I was out like a light.

 

At least this didn't happen on a Monday or Friday - although it does make the beer taste better

And I don't know if that makes sense but I'm not going to reword anything

 

Tough day but about the gas spillage, i thought it was mandatory for you to be supervising it while at pumps, well at least that is how they want it here in my neck of the woods.

 

dont feelt bad, i had a shitty day too. i got a flat tire and the tire got ttoaly deforem and now i mdriving with a spare. but before that i was at a shop getting an oil change, and they put my car on thsoe cheao old lifts. ymy car is too low (2in front and 2 1/4 rear) and had had abig problem getting it off the lfit cuz of the sideskrits. i was stuck there for hours.

 

my car is shittin on me too...the clutch is going out and the wheel bearings are all fucked up.....plus i have no time to fix it untill next week so i gotta drive like this for a while

 

I was shocked how much the front bumper bends without damage. When I backed up from the curb the under side of the bumper was REALLY bent. I was thinking great my bumper is toast now. And when the techs were bending the bumper to get it back on right. They were not being gental about it either.
I guess these plastic bumpers are worth something.

 

I'm glad your gas stations have bathrooms.

It's alright. These bumpers can take quite a beating. My 06 TSX has been rearended 3 times, and backed into once in the front.

After being rearended three times, it finally took some damage.

This happened yesterday when I was parked in my school parking lot. *rant rant rant* I guess some of us just have these days more often than others. =/

 

I think the thing to top off your day would have been if you lit a cigarette on the ride home, and you would've went on fire from the gas on your clothes. Other than that, I'd say you had a pretty shitty day - sorry.

I guess we all have them though.

 

Sometimes you need days like that so you appreciate the others....or some shit like that.

Either way....here's hoping today is better than yesterday.

 

I would never leave gas 'in-motion' unattended. Someone could come by and steal some gas, vandals could do something stupid to your car while it's asshole is exposed, or what you just described.