Tody, for the first time in my life, I experienced what meanspaining means if you are not on the guy side! one feels really stupid getting treated like an idiot!
One of my car tires hd a slow air leak (~5 lbs overnight), and I finally got sick and tires to pump it up every morning, and I made the mistake and went in female mode to a Firestone Service Center. They found a little cut in the side wall, ad I had to ge a new tire. My car uses a funny size (19 x 45 x 55), and the tire had to be ordered in (those special tires are not cheap, not at all!). And they told me that they would do one of those multiple checks they generally do. The shop manager came back and said that air and cabin filter are dirty (he showed them to me, and I knew they needed to be changed anyway). And after that came the bummer! He told me that the timing belt better be changed at the mileage I had on, and they had taken a look and it looked a little bit cracked. I asked how critical that is, and he old me that it could lead to a fatal engine failure! I better get it changed, it is only some $$$ to do this.
I said that it is really darn critical, because my engine has a timing chain, and if that has cracks in it, it is darn dangerous! But it is not know that a timing chain ever had cracks.
I wish I would have taken a picture of that guys ace, he really looked like it was full of egg! He said, oh, I must have looked at the wrong car, and went away.
They thought they could fleece an older woman, cause what do older women know about cars anyway! Scare them a little, and they pull out their pocket book!
