Dear oil in flow glad to hear it was a simple mistaken hole issue --- made that mistake twice myself and once in a dory -- seriously though -- you should send a note to the head office ... putting fluids in the wrong hole is a serious breech of duty in a service bay at the very least the manager should be made aware of his technicians incompetence good luck On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@gmail.com>wrote: > Found that oil only in overflow. Drained and cleaned and refilled w/ h2o. > No > more oil and none in expansion. At this point, I assume(not sure..and don't > want to flame on anyone...yet), but I think the Firestone...errr oil change > place(that I swore I would never use) may have started to refill oil there, > caught the error and put it in the right place, but DID NOT even inform me > of the error. Oil must have sat in the overflow the whole trip to Florida > and back. Anyway....I am really appreciative of the response I have gotten > from the list. You guys are the best. > > P.S. Saga re my reaming of said repair shop will be forthcoming after some > further diagnostics. > > Michael in San Antonio > 91GL AT 'Gringo' > 73 Beetle >
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