[techspecs]

I saw something similiar that testifies to the "expertise" of these "quickie service" places. Reading your statement that the guy needed to be told that he had to lube the gasket with oil before installing the filter reminded me of this. I was having a fuel filter changed on an older car and the lines were rusted on it and you couldn't really reach it easily without a lift or oil change pit. I had talked them into letting me into the shop area while the work was done (although they shouldn't have). A few spaces down someone was finishing an oil change on a Ford Crown Victoria. When this guy started it up to pull out of the bay, within moments the engine was knockin so bad someone was yelling at him to shut it off. Turns out the old gasket from the filter was fused to the block and didn't come off with the filter. When it was started it blew all the oil out quickly from not being sealed right. What's funny was when this 18-20 year old told the eldery man that owned the car that the idiot that did the last oil change apparently didn't lube the gasket and that they weren't responsible, was when the man told him to check the computer to see who that idiot was since they had changed the oil the last few times and he had his receipts!