[sammyg2]

Several years ago my daughter's car had a nail in the tire and it was Sunday and she needed to get back to school, so i took her car to firestone (reluctantly).


I told them, "just patch the tire".

firestone: It's too close to the edge, you need a new tire.
Me: No, (a-hole), it's an inch from the shoulder, just patch the darn thing.
And don't be messing around with anything else. Just the tire.

Firestone: but sir, the 500,000 point inspection is free!

Me: NO I said, nothing but the tire. don't touch anything else.


Got the tire patched and my daughter took off to school 4 hours away.
she showed up back at our house less than a half hour later saying the engine was smoking.

Evidently the jr. technician at firestone did not get the word that he wasn't to touch anything and he touched the engine oil dipstick.

Not only did he touch it, he pulled it out and missed the freaking hole when he tried to put it back in.

There it was, tangled in the front suspension.
The smoking was from oil spitting out of the dipstick hole and getting on the exhaust.

I cleaned the dip stick off, and put it back where it belonged, problem solved.

And no I did not drive my truck through the firestone front door but I was tempted.

Places i will never ever go include firestone and big-o tires. And pep boys.


I'm sure there are at least 100 more that I can't think of right now.