It's mid morning on this very clear and sunny Thursday. It's my last day off for a number of days, and fortunately I have it off! Why? After hitting the 3000 mile mark (well a few hundred over), I decided to get the oil changed and the lines checked only to have the oil change tech point out that I was leaking axle fluid all over the place. WTF is what I said because it certainly didn't happen on the way down from the Home Land. It didn't happen the first week that I was here. It happened after I took it to Firestone to repair the U-Joint on that same side of the Jeep. I know this because it was clearly not leaking the day they repaired it or they would've said, "Hey, you have a leak, and it's bad!" What happened was they put it together and broke one of the seals, and it started to leak out after I left the shop.
This is why they didn't see it! It hadn't started to spew out till I left. Had I not gotten my oil changed yesterday, or had agreed to let them, Firestone, change it the day they did the U-Joint fix, I wouldn't have known till I burned out the front end or had the front lock up on me. And considering where I've been living till today, that could've lead to me driving right off the mountain road down into the ravine. I guess when it's your time; it's your time! LOL. What was sad was the Firestone people didn't want to take responsibility for their mess up. "It must've been like that when you brought it in last Sir. You must've hit something that caused it to break." All these things mechanics tell people that don't work on cars. BUT, I'm Mexican!! I work on my car. I have for the last 15 years, and I know all there is to know about leaks, repairs, etc. When I pointed out the flaw in their logic that implied it was that way before I brought it in, I asked why when they did such an intrusive job to fix that U-Joint had there been no signs of a leak, "Cause you would've pointed that out to me, but your paper work doesn't list it at all." When I also pointed out that the side that the leak was from was where they did the repair was the new side of components, as in I had some parts replaced a few years back, that it could've only been a mistake on their part. They finally had to accept responsibility, and got on it.
So today, with lightning speed, or not so lightning, Firestore is repairing and cleaning up that mess they made. My normal schedule of things has been cut down to waiting for my jeep, emailing, and deciding what color curtains I should get in my new place. I know. It's pathetic cause I should be at the gym working on my health, putting my bed together, and cleaning my Jeep up some so it doesn't look like a complete mess this weekend when I driving to work. LOL. I'm an American, and I believe in giving people good service especially when they pay me for it. If I pay you for a service, I expect the same, and when either one of us falls short, I expect everyone to step up to the occasion and perform. That's what doing business is all about. So now I wait!. I write. I drink my cup of 'JOE', and look at my phone to ring so they can tell me it's ready...as in before afternoon traffic.
That's the news from a Midwest guy in the land of milk and honey.
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