Just when I thought I might be too bored with my blog ever to write another entry, I got irritated this morning. Nothing like irritation to rouse the heart of a blogger.
Attention, auto shop workers: if I find which one of you puts my oil filter on with a torque wrench, there will be repercussions.
The instructions on the side of the filter are clear: turn 3/4 to 1 turn after the filter contacts the base. Some people like to call this "hand tight." I like to call it "the best way to avoid Scott pouring dirty motor oil in your face while you sleep."
Like all real men, I change my own oil, except for when the weather is too cold to do it in my driveway. It seems every spring, I go through this with the first oil change of the warm season. Whatever $7/hour wrench-slinger put the filter on during the winter change in the shop severely overtightened it, and I have to jam a screwdriver through it just to get some leverage so I can unscrew it. I find this very irritating. That is all.
5 comments:
Ah yes- it once took my dad and I about an hour to remove my oil filter after someone did that.
Perhaps they are thinking tightening your filter with a torque wrench at their auto shop would cause you to return to said shop for them to remove your filter for you, and change the oil there while they're at it.
Exactamundo, which is even more irritating. Aggravating, even.
And no, aggravating is not a synonym of irritating.
My own personal gripe with paying someone else to put oil in my car is that they insist on putting 5 quarts of oil in even though my car only takes 4. This then causes massive amounts of smoke to come out the back until the extra oil is burned off.
i guess this pits me squarley in the 'fake man' category.
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