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Old 08-28-2020, 09:34 AM
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I recently tooky my 2 year old car in for an oil change and tire rotation. They came up with a list that "needed" to be done, such as throttle body being cleaned, all tires be balanced with wheel alignment and maybe another thing, the total about $500. I said no, and she was "shocked", and said "you don't want those things done?" 6 months ago I had the same thing done and they said the car needed a fuel injector service done, brakes bled and something else, I said no not to do it, would have been about $500 for that if I remember right. The car only has about 40,000 miles on at this last service. They didn't even mention what they said the previous service that it needed done yet as I didn't have it done back then but came up with these new things. The car after this last service has a little vibration when approaching 75mph which didn't have before. So I loosened the lug nuts on each wheel, one wheel at a time and correctly tightened the lug nuts by using cross pattern tightening on each wheel, the vibration went away. Evidently the technician tightened one lug nut tight at a time instead of slowly tightening each lug nut using cross pattern tightening sequence. The car goes straight down the road and does not need alignment.