Thread: Rip off of the week

Originally Posted by blip

My favourite one was a while back, guy comes in in his diesel toyota van asking how much for an oil change gave him the price and sure enough we were rip off cunts its just changing the oil and anyone can do that bla bla. I think it was $150.00 from memory. So he storms off spinning the wheels to try and teach us a lesson I guess. About a week later I see this van parked on the side of the highway at the end of an oil trail. Turns out he saved heaps on the oil change but didnt take the old oil filter o ring off. Couple of days later his wife is ringing around for quotes for a new engine.....

Yeesh. $150 is actually pretty reasonable too. Oil and filter parts only used to cost me $110.