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ORIGINAL: peter4jc

Just don't do what my best friend Bill's kid did.  The kid was 16, and Bill told him to check the oil in his Sunfire, and add oil if needed.  Sure enough it was low.  So what does the kid do?  Starts pouring in quart after quart until it was full - at the top of the valve cover where the Add Oil lid is!  It was full alright!

The funny thing is, Bill owns a Goodyear service station.  I guess car smarts isn't hereditary.

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ORIGINAL: JimBlake

Heh...  That reminds me of a story...

I had a friend - his wife had a Jetta with manual tranny.  She got an oil change at a quickie place, & asked them to check the tranny oil & add if necessary.  Just like Hondas, you open the fill plug & check to see whether the fluid is about to pour out of the fill hole.  It was dry, so they added a quart.  Still dry, they added another quart.  Apparently that's where they gave up & handed her the keys.

Problem was the plug they opened was the hole in the bellhousing where you shine a timing light onto the flywheel.  So they had just poured 2 quarts of gear oil onto her clutch.

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ORIGINAL: drummer1279

Thats funny, heres one from my job (advance auto parts) 2 guys riding in a 01 Accord V6 automatic.  The guys walk in and ask me what to do, the transmission is slipping and the engine is making a grinding noise.  My first thought was ask them to check the oil and the tranny fluid.  After getting a deer in the headlight look from both of them I decided to walk out and do this myself and sure enough both dipsticks were bone dry.  the car needed almost 4 quarts of oil, this they figured out how to do themselves, then they come back in freaking out because some dummy in the parking lot told them that they had to undo a bolt on the side of the transmision to add the fluid.  SO I go BACK outside and show them and having to reassure them that you add the tranny fluid through the dipstick hole, the tranny needed 2 quarts....

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ORIGINAL: smaglik

clear cut case of post-whoredom