This is your chance! Take 'em for everything they got! At least with
your Alpine you'd have known right away if the job was done right...if
there's no smoke, you know you've got troubles!
Christopher
ian(at)sunbeamalpine.org writes:
>Here's one to make you all laugh. Last night my wife and I took her
>Toyota Camery to the local dealership for an oil change. This took well
>over the time that they had told us it would take and I was getting
>impatient. Just then we got a call to come to the service desk. The lady
>nicely told us that it was going to cost us an extra 1.50 or so, since
>the car took an extra quart of oil. We thought that that was strange,
>they had never charged us for an extra quart before. I thought "I'm
>going to look and see how many quarts this thing really holds once we
>get to the car." Thinking that they had scammed us for a 1.50 more. I
>knew that the owners manual would tell me the capacities.
>
>The car was now ready to go. My wife hopped into the drivers seat and I
>immediately got the owners hand book out. I was sure that they were
>trying to pull one over on us. Just then my wife says "Should this red
>light on the dash be on?" I looked over. It was the oil pressure idiot
>light. "No" I said. "Shut the car off." I was still looking through the
>owners book, trying to find the capacities. "What should I do?" my wife
>asked. I told her to go inside the dealership and let them know that the
>light wasn't going out. So, she did. Meanwhile, I was still looking
>through the book when it dawned on me what was happening. "I'd better
>check an see if they forgot to put oil in this thing before they get out
>here!" I thought. I knew that if they got to it before me, they would
>try to cover it up.
>Just as I was checking the dipstick, my wife and one of the technicians
>came out. They had forgot to put the oil in the car! I calmly told him
>and showed him the dipstick. He immediately took it from me and started
>to get defensive. I guess he had to check for himself. It was still bone
>dry. By this time we had all the service technicians,and the manager out
>at the car. At first they tried to make some sort of excuse. But, I
>think they realized that they just sounded stupid. So they just shut up.
>Then I jumpped in for the kill. "How would you have known that this car
>took an extra quart of oil, if you never even put any in it?" I said
>calmly. The manager looked at me and said "What?" I replied "You sold us
>an extra quart." "We've always brought our car here for oil changes and
>this is the first time you have ever done that." "What are you trying to
>pull here?" The manager looked suprised and explaned that that should
>not have happened. She also apologized and offered to refund our money
>along with a coupon for our next oil change for free. I thanked her
>kindly and said "Can we please have our oil now, we would like to get
>home." The technicians were still checking the dip stick, hoping that as
>if by some miricle, oil would appear on it. Proving that I was indeed
>wrong after all and that thay would all still have jobs in the morning.
>The manager barked the command and they mozied back to the garage. Only
>one returned to fill it up. I watched as he put 4 quarts into the car. I
>just shook my head and laughed quietly to myself. - Ian
>--
>Ian Spencer <www.sunbeamalpine.org>
>'61 Harrington Alpine B9104782 OD HRO
>'62 Harrington Le Mans BH9115930 OD LRX
>From: Ian Spencer <ian(at)sunbeamalpine.org>
>Subject: No oil!!
>Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 10:12:27 -0400
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