On 2016-02-01 2:05 PM, Janet B wrote:
>
> Today is my birthday.
>
> My husband took the truck into the Ford dealer first thing. We'd had
> the truck in for a repair 10 days ago and the truck was leaking some
> oil. They'd had to put a oil filter relocation kit in and had
> simply neglected to put a clamp around the hose. As they lifted it up
> on the hoist, they punched through the forward gas tank with the lift!
> So what would have been a few minutes to fix is now looking to be
> anywhere from a couple days to a week or more.
>
> They sent my husband home in a rental car.
> There is no charge for the car, a new gas tank, and a clamp for the
> oil hose. No charge for anything and a good thing too.
>
> I wish I had been there, I'm just bubbling with stuff to say.
>
> So, we are still going out to eat tonight.


Happy Birthday. Your truck experience is not quite as bad as that of a
friend of mine from the dog park. He needed an oil change. His son
offered to do it, figuring he could save him a few dollars. Given the
price of oil and filters these days and the dealing with the messy work
and the oil to dispose of, and the number of quick oil change places
around, it is pretty cheap to get it done.

It seems his son did something wrong and it didn't take very long for
the oil to run out and destroy the engine. The took it to a local
garage where there was a truck the same make, model and year and the
same engine, but the body was kaput, so they are going to swap out the
engines. For some reason it it going to take a long time. It seems that
you have to take your time and to things right. That leaves me wondering
about the competence of the job. I worked in our equipment section for
10 years. Changing an engine is less involved job that many others that
he had to deal with. Disconnect it, unbolt it, take it out... revers
the above. It may be a few hours work, not days or weeks.