$320 for an oil change? wowzers. Thanks for reminding me why I never took my Pete to that dealer when I had it

By the way you jinxed me with your bad luck, lol. First load out the latches wouldn't release on my trailer box so I couldn't transfer the load, drove it back to the yard with the back box full (that was quite the uncomfortable ride lemme tell you!!) sat for a hr, got it fixed, went to the plant, gt another load in the front box, went to the job site, transfered just fine until it was time to slide that box back onto the trailer, and it was dead as dead can be (ARRRGH!!). Had to get a bobcat off teh job site with a chain to pull the box onto the trailer for me, and with that my day was done for.. Blame it on the freezing weather over the past couple of nights, killed a valve then the trailer battery..

Sent ya a PM by the way, your more than welcome to come trucking with me tomorrow and see how this transfering gig works if you have nothing better to do

 

Hey Rev,

If your in Sacramento go visit Arnold (the Governor). lol

 

Aahhhhnold will have to wait - the truck is supposed to be ready by 3 or 4 tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow morning I'll be doing my inventory, so I can get loaded first thing Friday morning.

Still not sure about the batteries, though - it seems that the Warranty guy at Optima has forgotten how to answer his phone. :x

 

if ya get a chance run over a hippie or two for me.

 

I think the problem is all those Christmas lights on the truck, Rev. :wink:

 

Yep! Sounds like Pete, should buy a KW...! :P :lol:

 

About 9 hours to get from Waco, to Oklahoma City...highways became an ice rink starting around Ft. Worth and conitnued to be so until about 50 miles south of OKC...Hopefully I can make it to Denver before next week, LOL.

On a side note, damn near had to chain up to get backed into my spot at the Flying J here in OKC

 

That shop sounds like a complete rip-off. 5-6 hours to change the exhaust manifold? I guess when you're in the back laughing it up about the sucker ya just screwed to the tune of $100+ an hour... it might take that long! :P

For that kind of money, I'd do it myself on the side of the road. That's crazy. Assuming Optima covers the batteries, I'd demand to stand their and watch them take an hour to swap them out. Ridiculous!

 

I'm pretty sure truck techs run the same kind fo system that car techs do. Every job is listed in a book with the amount of billable time listed next to it. So, you'll likely be overbilled on a little job, but they could run into trouble on a large one (or a small one) and lose their ass.

 

They could have taken 12 hours for all I care. It was a warranty repair.

It took him about 15 minutes to swap them out, plus about 45 minutes worth of diagnosis. I paid the hour labor, and Optima covered the batteries. I would rather pay the hour labor than the $400 for the two batteries.