09-14-2006, 02:36 AM
my ma used to take her van in to get her oil changed about every couple months. one day "just a cuple days after a change she ran over a peice of metal in her drive and needed an emediat tire change, that was when my dad saw the oil filter covered in what looked like a couple years of crud.
he did he best to get it off to no avail, that was when I had to go at it with a chizle and a torch to cut off the main body of the filter and hamered chizled and torched the filter seet to get it off, needless to say it took a couple hours.
twenty years later, I forgot about it and started using their service, " oil and lube" shortly after an oil and lube change I had to replace the calipers and pads, that was when I noticed that my joints and univercels were all dry socketed.
so unless you know the kid working there well enough where you can trust him or you are willing to crawl underthere to inspect thier work this place is a good place to avoid.
I have seen in the news that this is not the only place that is doing this. if you are on a hiway and you need to stop for service, drive away from the eway, go in to the next town. according to the news reel I saw there is a lot of that going on at eway side shops.
I have found that if they wont allow me to watch, it is best to crawl under and inspect the work before ever pulling off the lot.
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he did he best to get it off to no avail, that was when I had to go at it with a chizle and a torch to cut off the main body of the filter and hamered chizled and torched the filter seet to get it off, needless to say it took a couple hours.
twenty years later, I forgot about it and started using their service, " oil and lube" shortly after an oil and lube change I had to replace the calipers and pads, that was when I noticed that my joints and univercels were all dry socketed.
so unless you know the kid working there well enough where you can trust him or you are willing to crawl underthere to inspect thier work this place is a good place to avoid.
I have seen in the news that this is not the only place that is doing this. if you are on a hiway and you need to stop for service, drive away from the eway, go in to the next town. according to the news reel I saw there is a lot of that going on at eway side shops.
I have found that if they wont allow me to watch, it is best to crawl under and inspect the work before ever pulling off the lot.
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