BookstoreEscapee
10-26-2008, 08:15 PM
Took my car for an oil change yesterday, and they manage to find $1500 worth of stuff they can do. I let them do the scheduled maintenance stuff and replace my burned out bulbs on my license plate (even though I know I can get them cheaper but $19 in the grand scheme of things was worth my not having to make another trip elsewhere). They also wanted to replace my tires. I don't buy tires from the dealer. So I got out for $400 and went and did my other stuff. Did some shopping and then headed back to my parents' to spend some time with the dog while they were out visiting friends. When I was leaving the shopping center I noticed that my front left tire was looking rather low, though it wasn't exactly flat. I decided I'd make it back to my parents' OK, so I headed off, and about 10 minutes into my drive my check engine light came on. Grr.
So I got back to my parents' and when my mom called later I told her about it; my dad said to pull the car into the garage so he could check the tire. I did, and he put air in it, but he didn't trust it, so he gave me his car for the night. This morning he took it to Sears, and they said only the front tires needed replacing. So he did that, and I'm going for dinner and I'll have to write him a check. We considered going to Sam's for tires, which would have saved me about $20, but if I have any problems I wouldn't be able to go in by myself, since I don't have a membership of my own. Plus I can go to any Sears auto center, and there is a free-standing one just up the highway from my apartment, so I can go there for alignments and rotations and such.
In the past, when the engine light has come on, 2 out of 3 times it was because the gas cap was loose. I got gas about 4 days earlier, and when I checked it the cap seemed fine (though the second time it happened the cap looked fine and they still said that was the problem). I'm thinking they knocked something loose or something when they were working on it. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to call them, though, and I'll probably have to borrow my dad's car again, or get a loaner from the dealer, while they check it out, since I can't take a day off work to deal with it.
Grr. :mad:
So I got back to my parents' and when my mom called later I told her about it; my dad said to pull the car into the garage so he could check the tire. I did, and he put air in it, but he didn't trust it, so he gave me his car for the night. This morning he took it to Sears, and they said only the front tires needed replacing. So he did that, and I'm going for dinner and I'll have to write him a check. We considered going to Sam's for tires, which would have saved me about $20, but if I have any problems I wouldn't be able to go in by myself, since I don't have a membership of my own. Plus I can go to any Sears auto center, and there is a free-standing one just up the highway from my apartment, so I can go there for alignments and rotations and such.
In the past, when the engine light has come on, 2 out of 3 times it was because the gas cap was loose. I got gas about 4 days earlier, and when I checked it the cap seemed fine (though the second time it happened the cap looked fine and they still said that was the problem). I'm thinking they knocked something loose or something when they were working on it. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to call them, though, and I'll probably have to borrow my dad's car again, or get a loaner from the dealer, while they check it out, since I can't take a day off work to deal with it.
Grr. :mad: