AngliaGT
Great Pumpkin
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When we were living in an apartment,my Wife had her oil changed
by a local shop.That was last December,& a notice came up in the dash,
advising that it needed to be changed again,so I finally got to it,or so I thought.
It went something like this:
- Get oil & filter out
- Jack up car & support the subframe
- Remove plastic cover for drain plug
- Crawl under car with ratchet & sockets
- Put on 1/2" socket - doesn't fit (or loosen plug)
- Crawl back out from under car,get a 13mm socket
- Socket won't budge drain plug - even with a breaker bar
- Socket slips,rounding off the head of the plug
- Frustrated,I get a pair of Vise Grips (I know I know-
- you should never do that),Vise Grips keep slipping
- At this point,I admit defeat (it's also 95 degrees in the garage)
- Decide to was Wife's car & the F150 - all goes well
- a few hours later,we have a torrential down pour of rain
The thing that really got me,is my Wife called the shop,& asked if they'd
get the drain plug loose for me.Their reply - "We can get to it in three weeks".
Needless to say,we won't be dealing with that shop again.
by a local shop.That was last December,& a notice came up in the dash,
advising that it needed to be changed again,so I finally got to it,or so I thought.
It went something like this:
- Get oil & filter out
- Jack up car & support the subframe
- Remove plastic cover for drain plug
- Crawl under car with ratchet & sockets
- Put on 1/2" socket - doesn't fit (or loosen plug)
- Crawl back out from under car,get a 13mm socket
- Socket won't budge drain plug - even with a breaker bar
- Socket slips,rounding off the head of the plug
- Frustrated,I get a pair of Vise Grips (I know I know-
- you should never do that),Vise Grips keep slipping
- At this point,I admit defeat (it's also 95 degrees in the garage)
- Decide to was Wife's car & the F150 - all goes well
- a few hours later,we have a torrential down pour of rain
The thing that really got me,is my Wife called the shop,& asked if they'd
get the drain plug loose for me.Their reply - "We can get to it in three weeks".
Needless to say,we won't be dealing with that shop again.