[pavulon]

So I ended up buying a 63K mles '13 Honda Pilot for my daughter from a private party. No service records but in good shape overall. Obviously, I now have another car with an ICE to maintain. So, I change the engine oil over the weekend because the maintenance minder light came on and the oil life indicator showed 10% oil service life remaining. A little internet digging shows that these things need other fluids changed more regularly (trans, diffs, transfer case) than I'm accustomed to and I'm wondering when that last happened. I call the dealer in Green Bay and ask if I can get that info. Nope. The service rep tells me "It's like hospital HIPPA." WTH?? I tell her "we're talking about a car, not a person." "I don't make the rules. If you bring it in we can look at it." How about 'No'?


Similarly, I go to look at a nice, private party Walker riding mower over the weekend. Brand new, never used, 0.7 hours on the meter. For sale now because of a long story involving a fire, insurance, an elderly father and some questionable reasoning. None-the-less, there it is--brand new. I google a little and notice that the 2 options that the owner's son cited (power bin dump and fine cut height adjustment) are absent from the mower. He calls the mower dealer today and gets "Oops, I guess we forgot to put those on." Really?

I don't know why I bothered writing this out other than both seem a long way toward absurd.