^ LOL i like the last bit about the civic and kmart pipe.
The only thinkg i let get done to my truck at any place is tires, other than that i try to do any other maintnence. Unless of course i dont have the tools and equipment, IE a garage, and lift, to do the rest of the stuff but i only trust one guy to do that.
You want to know how bad Jiffy lube is they hired my "former" father (long story) for a month, the only thing ive ever seen him do was change the oil that resulted in the car burning to the ground i shit you not, late 80's escort burned to the ground, because he apparantly loosened an injector which got a nice ignition from the starter. I dont know how it happened, but it was fine before he commenced the work.
Another thing i thought was funny as i went to tires plus for tires for my cragar ss wheels, 275 60/15, in know its not easy for low profile tires to go on the wheels and wide tires dont help much either they had a guy jumping on the tire to get it on the wheel, i know all the guys pretty well so i get to chill in the shop while they do anything. Another thing i love about these places is how they like to jack prices according to different people, my mom got a qoute for 4 tires to be switched she gets them off of tire rack, well mr. tire 5 mintues from my house was 40, 10 bucks a tire. I call the mr. tire about 20 minutes away 85 for all 4. tires plus was 90. I call around to see what prices i got the one up the street told me 65 i asked why the price changed when my mom went in to when i called he said sir our prices are set by the main office i told them well my mom just got a qoute a for 40 and he started stutering and freaking out, so i said ok im going to come down there with her to make sure the price of 40 stays. I get there this guy looks at me like oh shit (im a big guy 6'0" and about 280 lbs yeah i got a small beer gut going) this guy was about 5'2" and maybe 120lbs hes looking at me and says 65 i told him you said 40 when she came in he said ok 40 and il throw in a free oil change. I told him i know what oil filter is on the car, and im going to make sure the oils clean before they start the car he said ok and disappeared for about an hour. Needless to say they did the oil change and tires and it was only 45 after tax and the disposal fees and bs. It was funny as shit, and he still gets scared when my mom or i go in there.
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Don't ever look at cars as just imports or domestics. Just because a car is made in a certain country doesn't mean that it is anything like another car from that country. An example of this is Mitsubishi reliability, just because they are Japanese doesn't mean that they are as reliable as a Honda or Toyota.
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