UroTrash
12-16-2006, 01:28
My oldest daughter calls me from college a few weeks ago and tells me her car is a little louder than usual. It's a near new Scion tC. Just a little bit louder, but "different".
So I ask her to look under the hood, see if anything is obviously wrong. She looked with a nice young man that happened to be from our town with whom she goes to college.
Nothing obvious, she checked the oil, all OK.
So, I thought well maybe its idling a little faster as its cold outside.
So she comes home last night, I take it to the garage to change the oil and rotate the tires this AM.
I drain the oil, change the filter, rotate the tires.
Then I pop the hood.
Oil grenade.
Oil every where.
No oil filler cap.
Mystery solved.
Interestingly, she nor the young man noticed it missing.
Ah, and who was the moron that either forgot to put it on or left it loose?
That would be the idiot that last topped up the oil at Thanksgiving.
That would be.....
me.
So I ask her to look under the hood, see if anything is obviously wrong. She looked with a nice young man that happened to be from our town with whom she goes to college.
Nothing obvious, she checked the oil, all OK.
So, I thought well maybe its idling a little faster as its cold outside.
So she comes home last night, I take it to the garage to change the oil and rotate the tires this AM.
I drain the oil, change the filter, rotate the tires.
Then I pop the hood.
Oil grenade.
Oil every where.
No oil filler cap.
Mystery solved.
Interestingly, she nor the young man noticed it missing.
Ah, and who was the moron that either forgot to put it on or left it loose?
That would be the idiot that last topped up the oil at Thanksgiving.
That would be.....
me.