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I hardly ever check my oil in the car, I know I should. I have the 1.8T though, so it's not like it's going to burn up like the 2.slow.
And I thought you were doing the oil change this past Saturday? What happend?
My wife had a death in her family so we had to go out of town Sat. So, I had to reschedule for the next available opening....Oct 7th. I have never experienced a dealership not being able to schedule a car's service for such a long way in the future. I wonder why?
I know I had an appointment this last time for 3 weeks out, and then they told me they couldn't find me a loaner when I dropped the car off. I had told them that I didn't care, I was dropping the car off and I needed a loaner. There was one there when I got there that evening.
I have had a Jetta, a Passat 1.8T AND a V6, a New Beetle, 2 different Golfs, a Mazda Protege and a Millenia, a Subaru Outback wagon, a Nissan Maxima SE (rental), a Toyota ECHO (rental), a Nissan Altima (rental), and a Toyota RAV4 (rental).
I tell them on the phone that I need a loaner before I drop the car off. Considering all the times my car has been in for service because they couldn't find a simple rattle, they give me one right away. I have never been refused one yet.
I do a visual check every time I drive it.
I suppose he doesn't look at his gauges, either?
I know I got in the car once and the coolant light went NUTS! I had to look up in the owner's manual what it meant. It means the coolant's low. I would have never known had I not looked it up. Most cars use a separate light for that, or don't have one at all. As a matter of fact, the only car I had with that light was my 96 Cavalier, and the pair of Bonnevilles.
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If one lets the oil level get so low that the pressure to the bearings/cams gets low.... the engine will be damaged.
No one has invented a reliable way to measure the oil level electronically... that is why we still have dipsticks to measure the oil level.
BMW and Saturn have a sensor that "counts" the particulate matter in the oil. With these, you change you oil based on an ACTUAL oil measurement.... not just some arbitrary mileage. This is still not a LEVEL measurement tho...
I plan on the APR Stage I, the TT exhaust (maybe), the sport springs (for less body lean), the tip chip (gotta check it out first), and tinted lights (they look really cool with my Cool White car). But no ugly body kits, etc.
And also, I know what you mean about the kids whose mommies got their cars. They make me sick. I might be 24, but every penny that goes into my car comes out of my pocket, and I am totally proud of that.
I pretty much killed her car though, so I bought her another car (used, but alot newer than what she had), paid cash for it, and handed her the keys with a big red bow around it as an early Christmas present.
I called the service manager yesterday about providing me a loaner and am still waiting for his call back. I did call him again this afternoon to get an update. Still no word back yet.
Um, actually I had a choice: the local public high school and a new car when I turned 16 or the private Jesuit school and I bought my own car.
I picked the school and bought myself a cruddy 83 Ford EXP when I turned 16. My dad and I spent nearly every weekend repairing that piece but I certainly feel like I got the better end of the deal.
I did the lights as well, only mine are tinted. The tinted lights look neat on the car I think, because my car is Cool White. I wanna add the tinted taillamps and fender lights as well, soon.
I plan to disable my DRLs soon as well, but I have the GLS without fog lights. I want the GLX lights with fogs, then I will disable my DRLs and add the Euroswitch then.
The Tulsa area is more country than urban, right? I have a client from there and she is the sweetest person, probably the nicest client I have. People always wanna crack on farmlands and stuff, but without those, we wouldn't eat. So they need to shut it.
And you should be lucky you never see Jettas around there. There are 4 of them just in the parking lot at my work! Everyone in MD/DC/VA has a Jetta it seems, they are pretty popular. I have never seen another white one with the 17" wheels like I have though, in the year that I have had the car.
I was in college by around then. I bought my parent's 1978 Dodge Magnum off them in my junior year (it was rusting pretty badly, and easier than them driving me or me thumbing across the state, which is what I did up until then).
Your title says one thing, then you go on to say you did most of those things. I don't get it. Did I miss something or a part of a paragraph?
anonymous02: By the boy racer look I am thinking of oversized wings, extra shiny chrome wheels, coffee can exhausts that are artificially loud, led lights on the washer nozzles, under car neon, etc. etc. The only thing I said I did was replace the amber bumber reflectors with clear ones, which in my opinion is very understated and classy looking. I also said I was going to disable the DRLs later today. Anyone please let me know if I am wrong but I don't think either of these mods (or the stainless door sills for that matter) make a car scream look at me.
I guess that I didn't make it clear enough. I chose the junker car over a new one. I can't say most kids when faced with that decision at 13 would pick the school that's 25 miles away over the promise of a shiny 1990 car. In fact most kids don't get that option. They either are promised a car or not. I imagine very few people in here were told pick the car or school, it's all up to you.
Did anyone else in here get that choice?