KY Liberty wrote:
Thanks everyone. It was the oil pressure sender.
I've got a new stealership story now too.
I went in and told them I thought the oil pressure sender was going bad and asked them to check it. They said it would be a half hour charge but that would apply to the price of the repair if I got it fixed. So I sat down in the waiting room with everyone else while they checked it. The guy came back in after a little while and said it was the oil pressure sender. It would be about $200 for the sender, about $200 to flush the motor and refill with oil, and about $100 to reflash the computer so the new sender would work, so about $500 total. At that point, in front of everyone else in the waiting room, I stood up right in his face and said, "That's some good $4it you're smoking. Can I have some?" He looks like a deer caught in headlights at this point and manages to stutter a "W-W-What??" I responded with "There is no way I'm going to pay $500 to replace a $30-$40 dollar part that I can do the labor on myself in under an hour!" At this point he doesn't know what to do, especially since I know he saw me pull the Five-seveN out of the door pocket and stick it in my jacket pocket when I was turning the Jeep over to them. He then said, "U-U-Um, p-please come with me, an-and we'll see what we can do." A few minutes later I walked back into the waiting room to see a bunch of anxious faces to which I replied "50 bucks for the part and 1 hour labor." For the next hour we all swapped stealership stories and had a few good laughs.
I've got a new stealership story now too.
I went in and told them I thought the oil pressure sender was going bad and asked them to check it. They said it would be a half hour charge but that would apply to the price of the repair if I got it fixed. So I sat down in the waiting room with everyone else while they checked it. The guy came back in after a little while and said it was the oil pressure sender. It would be about $200 for the sender, about $200 to flush the motor and refill with oil, and about $100 to reflash the computer so the new sender would work, so about $500 total. At that point, in front of everyone else in the waiting room, I stood up right in his face and said, "That's some good $4it you're smoking. Can I have some?" He looks like a deer caught in headlights at this point and manages to stutter a "W-W-What??" I responded with "There is no way I'm going to pay $500 to replace a $30-$40 dollar part that I can do the labor on myself in under an hour!" At this point he doesn't know what to do, especially since I know he saw me pull the Five-seveN out of the door pocket and stick it in my jacket pocket when I was turning the Jeep over to them. He then said, "U-U-Um, p-please come with me, an-and we'll see what we can do." A few minutes later I walked back into the waiting room to see a bunch of anxious faces to which I replied "50 bucks for the part and 1 hour labor." For the next hour we all swapped stealership stories and had a few good laughs.
YES!!!!!!!
This is one of the reasons my Dad and I do our own repairs. That plus the good feeling you get after working on a car.