Lordgufi
Well-Known Member
Day started around 11 AM ( its sat.. and i was relaxin ya know ) and the wife says she needs to get her oil changed and my immediate thought was So do i... i have 300 miles on the Pi swap and its about due time any way.
We head to wally world on Palm off the 805 and we check our cars in i tell them what i want and so far all is good.
an hour and a half later my wifes car is done and i'm greeted by the bay manager saying i have a overtorqued drain bung and the threads have spun ( wont tq down but the plug will still hold ). They didn't do the work and i was not charged.
I hop in my car and IMMEDIATLY head down to the place that last did my oil change and start yelling at the first person i see they look at me like i'm nuts and say " give us a few min to get this car out of the bay and we'll look at it, correct it and change your oil with a 10 dollar discount. "
currently i'm in shock because they didn't seem weird about the situation. they go on to tell me that wal-mart has sent them more business than advertizing over such things like this.
I get under the car with one of the techs and take a look at the bolt/bung and watch him use a tq wrench set to 15 ft lbs and it clicks. he then removes the bolt we look at the threads and NOTHING is wrong. he then takes out a tap and chases the threads and installs a new bolt at no charge. Thats what made me think possibly wal-mart was right but none the less the bolt held and tq'd to manufactuer specs before and after.
i get back up and pop the hood and i notice the oil cap is totally missing. Wally world didn't reinstall it, and if they did they didn't tighten it. SO i have them add in the comments on my oil change that the oil cap was missing. they do not sell or have any on hand.
I head back over to walmart, start cussing and i'm greeted by a manager. Wally world does not sell oil caps any more.
Now i'm driving down to the nearest autozone to buy a oil cap, just to return to walmart to get my money back. And I did...
This has been my day. cheap wally world oil is Never even going to be thought about in my car again no matter how broke i am I'll spend the extra 12 bucks on even non synthetic oil.
We head to wally world on Palm off the 805 and we check our cars in i tell them what i want and so far all is good.
an hour and a half later my wifes car is done and i'm greeted by the bay manager saying i have a overtorqued drain bung and the threads have spun ( wont tq down but the plug will still hold ). They didn't do the work and i was not charged.
I hop in my car and IMMEDIATLY head down to the place that last did my oil change and start yelling at the first person i see they look at me like i'm nuts and say " give us a few min to get this car out of the bay and we'll look at it, correct it and change your oil with a 10 dollar discount. "
currently i'm in shock because they didn't seem weird about the situation. they go on to tell me that wal-mart has sent them more business than advertizing over such things like this.
I get under the car with one of the techs and take a look at the bolt/bung and watch him use a tq wrench set to 15 ft lbs and it clicks. he then removes the bolt we look at the threads and NOTHING is wrong. he then takes out a tap and chases the threads and installs a new bolt at no charge. Thats what made me think possibly wal-mart was right but none the less the bolt held and tq'd to manufactuer specs before and after.
i get back up and pop the hood and i notice the oil cap is totally missing. Wally world didn't reinstall it, and if they did they didn't tighten it. SO i have them add in the comments on my oil change that the oil cap was missing. they do not sell or have any on hand.
I head back over to walmart, start cussing and i'm greeted by a manager. Wally world does not sell oil caps any more.
Now i'm driving down to the nearest autozone to buy a oil cap, just to return to walmart to get my money back. And I did...This has been my day. cheap wally world oil is Never even going to be thought about in my car again no matter how broke i am I'll spend the extra 12 bucks on even non synthetic oil.
lol