why you don't go to the quick-lube place

[Brett Dikeman]

Cartalk this morning...a woman has a '98 subaru.  All of the sudden, 
on a back road, it starts accelerating.

Her first thought: "Wow, this car accelerates well!" :-)

So, it hits some absurd speeds, she really starts to freak out, 
brakes the car down to a slow speed, then shuts it off and coasts in 
neutral.  TUrns it back on, RPMs jump up high again, so she has it 
towed to the dealer.

Less than a few weeks before, the car had been serviced(oil  change) 
at a quick-lube type place.  They were "the last people in the engine 
compartment."

By now, you're thinking, "how could a oil change place screw up the 
throttle?  Bump a cable or something?"


So what did the dealership find, but one Hostess Apple Pie, "the kind 
that comes in the green and red paper bag."  The filling leaked out 
over time, coated various parts of the throttle&cable, and of course, 
we all know how sticky apple -anything- can be.

Quick-lube place's response: "we're not responsible because there is 
-no- way that something like that would happen."

response from one of the cartalk guys: "Well, DUUUUUH, it did!"

Ahh, I have yet another quick-lube-place story :-)

Moral of the story?  Don't take your car(Audi or not) to a quick-lube 
place. The only reason it is "cheaper" than a case of mobil one and 
an Audi filter is that the quick lube places use cheap oil and cheap 
filters.  Ask for synthetic and watch the price skyrocket.

B
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