Im using the best oil out there, prove me wrong.

Those lifts are no joke. A friend dropped his wife's car off at their local service station. The next day he got a call. While the car was on the lift and a few feet off the floor, one of the guys nudged it with another car by accident. My friend's car was pushed far enough that it fell off the lift on one side. One arm on the other side took the weight of the car on the floor pan, and pushed up and through into the passenger compartment. Kind of like skewering a chicken on a rotisserie. The car was totaled.

I'm sure more than one service station has crunched the roof of a car on the lift.
 
ST1100Y said:
Dunno, maybe I'm old... passed my car license in '84, motorcycle permit in '92, and all literature and training lessons mentioned to check the oil level on a vertical surface, with a warm engine, that has been stopped for aprox 5 minutes... (like after refueling at the pump... conveniently do gas stations not only provide vertical surfaces, they also sell engine oil... kind of a pattern there...)

But yeah... these days there probably is 'an app for that'... :confused:
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Call me crazy but I always look for a horizontal surface.
 
Obo said:
So, is comparing conventional dino oil to synthetic the same as comparing butter to margarine?
Not that I'm looking to put it on toast.....
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Nope, more like comparing Marmite to Vegemite ... neither of which I would put on toast either! ;)
 
SMSW said:
Those lifts are no joke. A friend dropped his wife's car off at their local service station. The next day he got a call. While the car was on the lift and a few feet off the floor, one of the guys nudged it with another car by accident. My friend's car was pushed far enough that it fell off the lift on one side. One arm on the other side took the weight of the car on the floor pan, and pushed up and through into the passenger compartment. Kind of like skewering a chicken on a rotisserie. The car was totaled.

I'm sure more than one service station has crunched the roof of a car on the lift.
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How does that work insurance wise? Does the business take the hit as they were the entity that screwed up or does it go against your own car insurance (and what if you carry liability only)?
 
Here it is the business, or their insurer, that is on the hook without question.
Based on my impression of how things often seem to get settled in the US I would suspect that it would end up being a matter of who has the better lawyer.
 
Chris09 you are right,Fred's Pontiac Parisienne was a 283 , two door. He totalled the car by driving into a telephone pole, put Richmond out of power for a couple of hours. Now back to Oil
 
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