How much stuff does your mechanic touch on your interior?

[brickyardz]

Re: How much stuff does your mechanic touch on your interior?

Your not fanatic about your interior, your just CAR CRAZY like the rest of us!

From what you described it does sound a little excessive for an oil change but consider this: If they moved your car to bring it into the bay for an oil change and didn't adjust all the mirrors so they could make sure not to hit a car coming in or going out and did hit something, would you call them an idiot because they didn't do those things? It could be a liability issue from their point of view in case something like that does happen.

As for you wheel lock question, no, they don't typically have their own wheel lock wrenches. Many of these have many, many different patterns and they need to use the one that came with the wheels so they don't damage anything. If they were trying to get one off you lost the lock for, that they can do but would damage the current one in the process. Why do they need to take the wheels off to change the oil? Were they rotating the tires too?

Basically, thats why I do as much of my own work as possible. I have always changed my own oil and still do. Any other work I can do myself is done by me on all my vehicles. My Z in the avatar I stood by the service bay at a Nissan dealership for 6 hours while they did a recall on it to make sure nothing was screwed up. It's always clean, just like yours and hasn't even been washed with soap and water in 3+ years.

So, I feel your pain and what your going through. If it's a place you go for other repairs besides just changing the oil, have you tried letting them know in a nice way how you feel and ask that they take a little bit better car of your car?

I have done that also and given specific instructions and made them write things on the work order (that was the recall, DO NOT WASH MY CAR!). When my z was in the body shop for a scratch repair I stressed the importance of my car and keeping it clean, even in the engine bay since I have a lot of work done there and they did pay extra attention and while I still had some things to clean myself it was minimal.

Hope somehow the information has helps and welcome to the car crazy world!

[Tillmanator]

Hi Folks,

If you're a mechanic, or have a good friend who is one, please don't get upset. I realize that mechanics work on cars and that their hands are going be dirty and probably a little greasy etc. I am fully prepared to clean my steering wheel and gear shift and pedals (dirty greasy shoes)... but why do they have to touch SO MUCH stuff inside my car when I take it in for an oil change?

I'm a small female. Before I get out of the car I move the seat back so they won't have to touch the seat adjuster thing. I know they're going to bigger than me. Even so, whenever I get my car back the seat is ALWAYS screwed up. They have even adjusted the height of it! And the angle of the seat back. They're onlyl driving it around to the bay for an oil change. It's not like they're out on the road for a test drive!!!!!!! My rear view mirror is always messed up. And this past weekend, they adjusted my SIDE VIEW MIRROR! Why do they have to adjust that? I thought perhaps it just got banged or something but I also noticed that the little switch that you move either to the right of left to choose a mirror to adjust was still pointed at the right side. So I know for a fact that they messed with it. I also know that they dug through my glove box to find my wheel locking wrench thing for getting off my wheels for my rotation. Don't they have these tools of their own? And then they threw the now greasy bag with the little wrench in it into my pristine cup holder. I had to clean everything in my glove box too! It was a night mare.

WHY WHY WHY?????????

This aggravates me so much. It usually takes me about an hour to clean my interior after a mechanic has been in there but this last weekend I spent over two hours in there. Am I just too fanatic about my interior? You guys probably have kids and stuff (I don't). My interior NEVER has fingerprints or dust or even particles on the floorboards. I'm a bity crazy about the inside.

Does anyone else have a problem with their interiors being touched or messed with too much during routine servicing?