Re: Oil filter/Quickie oil changes

[c a l i b a n <caliban@sharon.net>]

	one thing about the "oil changers" place near my house
	is that the guys and girls there like to hang out and
	bullshit and talk car stereos and stuff, and they also
	let me look over their shoulder, walk under the car
	and look at how my undercarriage is doing (rust!) and
	basically totally observe what's happening.

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Bill Kolofa wrote:

:|In defense of SOME quickie oil change places, they can be good or they can be
:|bad. It's all people dependent. I've had one tell me about a torn CV joint
:|boot. Something I'd have not known until it was "complaining loudly". I always
:|ask for and get Mobil 1 so they don't use their cheaper bulk oil, although it
:|appears to be Valvoline. Their filter is suspect because it is typically a "no
:|name" filter. On another incident, they forgot to tighten the oil filter. When
:|I got home, I got a call from them telling me not to drive the car. They came
:|over and tightened the filter and topped off the oil. There was just a few
:|drips of oil coming from the filter before it was tightened. It could have been
:|a lot worse.
:|
:|-- 
:|Bill Kolofa                             SToc:005  
:|Integrated Circuit Development-Pan American Cellular
:|Phone: 847-523-7134  Email: billk@ecg.csg.mot.com 
:|"Fools you are...who say you like to learn from your 
:|mistakes...I prefer to learn from the mistakes of 
:|others, and avoid the cost of my own." Count Bismarck
:|

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