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Subject:Re: qwik lube oil chg disasters Re: My overflow tank is full of oil!!!
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:55:26 -0700

not to mention that it's a cardinal safety rule to *never* have or leave any
doors open on any vehicle on a lift.
Be interesting to know the stats on how many cars get screwed up somehow in
jiffy lube oil changer type places.

----- Original Message -----
From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:15 AM
Subject: qwik lube oil chg disasters Re: My overflow tank is full of oil!!!

> In a message dated 3/23/09 1:25:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
>> ), but I think the Firestone...errr oil change
>> place(that I swore I would never use) may have started to refill oil
>> there,
>> caught the error and put it in the right place, but DID NOT even inform
>> me
>> of the error. Oil must have sat in the overflow the whole trip to Florida
>> and back.  Anyway....I am really appreciative of the response I have
>> gotten
>> from the list.  You guys are the best.
>>
>>
>
> y'all remember the jiffy lube disaster i had w/ my '86 vanagon about 10
> yrs
> ago when they lowered it off the oil chg platform and left the drivers
> door
> open? (its in the archives)  i watched in horror as my vanagon was lifted
> up by
> the drivers door..
>
> and this is because they drove it onto the lift platform backwards,
> thinking
> the engine was in the front..
>
> lesson learned.. no more vanagon at quick lube after that..
>
> chris
>
>
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