However, the Dealership has tried to sell me on the importance of cleaning and replacing the manifold bolts, clean carbon from a throttle body (the engine has direct port injection), back flush the braking system and everything short of asking me if I’ve every had my halogen fluid rotated in the headlights? Once I got too fat and old to crawl around on a creeper and do my own oil changes, the quicky spots have been flawless. I found the Dealership’s Service departments even bigger offenders of unnecessary upselling than the X-Press Lube joint. I reject the idea of one man starting the job and a second finishing the job. It cost over 200.00 for that foam mattress. I finished the carb work and drove the bus away and the foam mattress blew away somewhere on the test drive. This mechanic paid me back as he started some carb work on a VW camper bus and put the foam mattress on top of the bus. I did pull a VW motor and before pulling it I let the oil out via the plug on the plate and just put the plug back in finger tight,bad move as a different mechanic put the engine back together and did not notice the plug was just in finger tight, it fell out. A mechanic must have a system and this is one reason not to make small talk or to some extent work while you are upset or angry as this is when these “forget” times happen.Now if a guy is doing this 3 times a week someone needs to intervene and see what is up. When you do a lot of cars they run together. I never had trouble with the plug(always tripple checked) but I used to sign off on the R.O that I had torqued the wheels. I don’t think there is a mechanic alive that has not had second thoughts about the plug.
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