[s-cars] Quote of the day

[Tom Mullane]

You guys are brave.  I'm afraid to let *anyone* do *anything* to my car.
Changing the oil is not a fun job, but it's worth the trouble and mess to
keep the unskilled or the careless away from my car.  Work on it?...I don't
even want to let them drive it into the shop (actually, that goes for all my
cars).  Call me paranoid....

On the belly pan, my sister-in-law has her oil changed in her 90 where ever
and when ever it is convenient.  In the 90, there are two plastic nuts that
attach the vertical sections of the belly pan to the body in the wheel well.
Every time I work on the car, I replace the two missing nuts.  Every time
the car comes back to me for work, the nuts are mysteriously gone again.
Attention to detail is rare these days.

Tom



Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:40:14 -0400
From: Robert Myers <robert at s-cars.org>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Quote of the day
To: keith at maddock.com
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
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Hmmmm...  It's interesting that you report  "acute attachment failure" of
your belly pan after seeing the change droid.  Mine suffered the exact same
fate after my last visit to my "local" (60 miles from here) Certified Audi
Mechanic at the "local" stealership.  I have been driving sans belly pan
ever since.  That's part of why I'm working at developing an affordable FMIC
for my car.  Once it's done and I find it works well I'll see about putting
it out as a bolt-on kit.  I'm anticipating a price below, hopefully well
below, $1K (like maybe $700 to $800 or possibly even a bit less) once
everything is all together.




At 06:34 PM 9/23/2004 -0400, Keith Maddock wrote:

>Robert Myers <robert at s-cars.org> wrote:
> >
> > I didn't feel like getting oil all over my hands so I took my urS6 
> > to our local JiffyLube clone along with five quarts of Mobil1 and a 
> > nice new Mann filter and drove up on their rack.  The change droid, 
> > after looking closely at my car, asked me, "Is that a Saturn?"  :-(
>
>Wow, that's worse than my last experience, I pulled up and the guy 
>asked "What kind of Volkswagen is this?"  (In his defense I have the 
>Kamei grill and no rings..)
>
>This place also had a LOT of problems with my belly pan, in the end it 
>took over an hour because they were so incredibly incompetent.  Adding 
>insult to injury, the belly pad suffered "acute attachment failure"
>the next day, while rapidly following Paul K. to S-Fest :-(
>
>That'll be the last quickie-lube job for my S4....
>
>Cheers,
>Keith