I need to rant for a minute.
There is a Vavoline oil change place that I go to. I have had great luck using this place for years now, that is until Lillian "the dike" oil change manager started to work there.
Vavoline says they offer free fluid top offs. That includes windshield washer fluid. So I have been stopping in for years and getting my washer fluid filled when it gets low. That is until Lil "the dike" oil change manager starts to work there.
Now when I pull in, she will come out with a hand held scanner and will enter my car in to the puter. she comes back out and says "I am showing that you are almost 6,000 miles on your oil change. We offer the fluid refills up to 5,000 miles. You are way over that, so we need to charge you $4.50 to top off the washer fluid."
I tell her that my oil change light has not yet come on......... She grumbles and then fills it up and proceeds to lecture me about getting my oil changed earlier. I say thank you and go on my way.
When I go in to get my oil change, there is Lil "the dike" waiting to direct me into the garage. Like I don't know how to pull my vehicle in properly and get it lined up. It is as if I am in a Nascar race, pulling into my pit at 50 mph. Without her help, there is no way I will be able to get my car into the garage!! WTF!!
THey stat the oil change process..........
I say to Lil, "Just an oil change please, and you do not need to check my air filter, it is a K&N filter and I service it myself". What does Lil do? She looks at it anyway. "Well I always like to check the filter to make sure no rodents crawled up there" she says........
At this point I am sitting in my car and a 20" computer monitor that she is working on, is pointed at me. Here comes tha sales pitch........
"It appears that you are going between 6,000-7,000 miles between oil changes. We strongly recommend if you are going to go this long of mileage that you upgrade to the super dooper synthetic option."
I tell her that there is a sensor in the oil pan that detects the strength of the oil and tells you that when to change your oil.
She says " Well sir, that sensor is assuming that you are running synthetic oil, and all GM cars since 2002 come from the factory with synthetic oil"
I had heard that argument before from her, so just before I went in to get my oil changed, I called my buddy who is the service manager at a local GM dealership and asked him if this was true. Of course not he says, the motor would never seat the rings properly if they did. This is what I thought as well.
SO this time I asked Lil if she knew how engines break in. I tell what I learned and she says "Your guy there at the dealership does not know what he is talking about"
So, at this point I am getting really pissed.
Lil goes on to recommend an tranny flush. I tell her that I do this work elsewhere by "qualified" technicians (Even though I have not even changed my fluid yet).
She goes on to insist/recommend replacement of this and that. I cut her off in mid sentenance and say "Lil, I just cam in for an oil change, only an oil change. If you recommend ONE MORE THING to me, I am going to start my car up and run it through the garage door. Please stop!, I do not want ANYTHING other than an oil change"
So she starts copping an attitude with me
, telling me that proper maintenance is the key to long engine life. She reminded me of that Seinfeld episode of when Jerry gets his oil changed and the service guy wants to do a complete overhaul of the engine.......
Lil, just wont give up!!
What is wrong with these people, that they insist on more than an oil change?
Rant over!
There is a Vavoline oil change place that I go to. I have had great luck using this place for years now, that is until Lillian "the dike" oil change manager started to work there.
Vavoline says they offer free fluid top offs. That includes windshield washer fluid. So I have been stopping in for years and getting my washer fluid filled when it gets low. That is until Lil "the dike" oil change manager starts to work there.
Now when I pull in, she will come out with a hand held scanner and will enter my car in to the puter. she comes back out and says "I am showing that you are almost 6,000 miles on your oil change. We offer the fluid refills up to 5,000 miles. You are way over that, so we need to charge you $4.50 to top off the washer fluid."
I tell her that my oil change light has not yet come on......... She grumbles and then fills it up and proceeds to lecture me about getting my oil changed earlier. I say thank you and go on my way.
When I go in to get my oil change, there is Lil "the dike" waiting to direct me into the garage. Like I don't know how to pull my vehicle in properly and get it lined up. It is as if I am in a Nascar race, pulling into my pit at 50 mph. Without her help, there is no way I will be able to get my car into the garage!! WTF!!
THey stat the oil change process..........
I say to Lil, "Just an oil change please, and you do not need to check my air filter, it is a K&N filter and I service it myself". What does Lil do? She looks at it anyway. "Well I always like to check the filter to make sure no rodents crawled up there" she says........
At this point I am sitting in my car and a 20" computer monitor that she is working on, is pointed at me. Here comes tha sales pitch........
"It appears that you are going between 6,000-7,000 miles between oil changes. We strongly recommend if you are going to go this long of mileage that you upgrade to the super dooper synthetic option."
I tell her that there is a sensor in the oil pan that detects the strength of the oil and tells you that when to change your oil.
She says " Well sir, that sensor is assuming that you are running synthetic oil, and all GM cars since 2002 come from the factory with synthetic oil"
I had heard that argument before from her, so just before I went in to get my oil changed, I called my buddy who is the service manager at a local GM dealership and asked him if this was true. Of course not he says, the motor would never seat the rings properly if they did. This is what I thought as well.
SO this time I asked Lil if she knew how engines break in. I tell what I learned and she says "Your guy there at the dealership does not know what he is talking about"
So, at this point I am getting really pissed.
Lil goes on to recommend an tranny flush. I tell her that I do this work elsewhere by "qualified" technicians (Even though I have not even changed my fluid yet).
She goes on to insist/recommend replacement of this and that. I cut her off in mid sentenance and say "Lil, I just cam in for an oil change, only an oil change. If you recommend ONE MORE THING to me, I am going to start my car up and run it through the garage door. Please stop!, I do not want ANYTHING other than an oil change"
So she starts copping an attitude with me
, telling me that proper maintenance is the key to long engine life. She reminded me of that Seinfeld episode of when Jerry gets his oil changed and the service guy wants to do a complete overhaul of the engine.......Lil, just wont give up!!
What is wrong with these people, that they insist on more than an oil change?
Rant over!
