Not All Oil Changes Are Created Equal
VW Eurovans think they are high royalty and deserve only the best that money can buy and really don’t care that they’re sucking you dry I was still bummed about the $61.63 total .
I don’t think I was paying this much attention the last time we got the oil changed.
It Even Requires a Special FilterIt would have helped, though not by much, had I taken in the filter that The Hubs had already bought for the van and left on the shelf in the garage. He bought a filter for his car as well (a Toyota 4Runner) and left it on the shelf, too. That’s the one I grabbed. Whoops.
Luckily, when I made the appointment, I didn’t tell the guy I was bringing my own filter, so he already had one that was on its way from another part of town. No, we don’t take the van to a dealer to get the oil changed (do you?) which would cost heavens I don’t know how much more. And Goodyear doesn’t exactly have a run of VW Eurovans coming in for oil changes to warrant keeping a surplus of their filters on the shelf. That’s only a minor inconvenience in the long line of inconveniences that come from owning this highfalutin vehicle that we love and adore and wouldn’t trade for anything.
Actually, I do love driving it. I just hate what it costs to maintain it.
I Know Nothing About Cars
Really. Nothing. Grabbing the wrong filter is but a small token of my woeful lack ofВ know-how. I like to joke that I don’t need to know about these things because I’m married and that’s what husbands are for. Really, how pathetic. What if something happened to him? What if — just to throw something out there — he went away for several months and wasn’t available to help figure out a problem?