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So I took my car into the dealership to have it serviced (free). The gas gauge is about 1/8 left. They had my car for ~2 hours and low and behold when I get it back, it's down to almost nothing! WTF!?!

I check the odometer and see that they've driven it about 3 miles! How the hell do they waste all that gas on 3 miles!?! And where the hell did they drive my car to anyways (their facility isn't 3 miles long)? My guess is they saw a nice car and wanted to see what it can do... morons....

GRRRR....stuff like this really sets me off.


EDIT* The service was for an oil change and air filter change. That's it. So I don't know why they would need to drive me car afterwards.



This post has been edited by CAMAricer: Jun 15, 2008 - 12:17 PM

They were probly driving it to make sure everything worked right...lol calm down u poor poor sf kid,its really cold over here in orinda lol

I know what you mean. They figure it's not thier car, so why not have some fun in it. I dropped my car off to have the KYB's put on, and of course I know they need to test drive, but they had wasted about the same amount of gas (1/8th of a tank) with my car as well. Kind of peeved me too, but you can't really blame them too much b/c youldn't you want to have a little bit of fun if a nice car came into you're shop and you got to test drive it?

They normally test drive it before and after the repair. First to make sure the diagnosis is correct, and next to make sure they fixed the problem.

my friend had the same thing done to her trans am, Except she was getting an oil change at wal-mart

hshahah same here.....but i was geting my tires replaced.......damn guy was revving and flying my car......i had my camera took a nice vid and showed it to his boss........guy got fired on the spot in front of me. i complained about this wierd ticking noise from my valve cover and my car pulling to the left. still waiting on my compensation.

this is why everytime i bring my car into a shop i always ask if i can watch and they really cant say no, and even if they do and say some bullcrap reason like their insurance wont cover if anything happens to you then say oh thats fine ill watch from aside away but i wanna see whats goin on thats all.

wow yall are like psychotic about yalls cars... lol they deal with alot nicer cars than 15 yr ols slow ass 4 bangers... lol no diss to the celi but seriously guys.... theyre working on your car... dont like them useing gas, than do it yourself... i see mechanics work on cars alot, they have the car running alot when its not needed, but granted they test drive it not for their pleasure, but as to "test" how the vehicle "drives"
thats just my opinion... i love my seli and back when she got worked on i let them do whateveer they needed to her to make her all better... its like a doctor... are u gunna wanna be awake durring open heart surgery to see if he does it right... no hes a doctor for a reason... cause he knows what to do....

i just leave it to the mechanics... they do a good job where i took it so i really couldnt complain..

now as far as "JOYRIDIN" they need to be castrated as weve had a couple car porters wreck clients cars doing this... and ofcourse they got fired....

and as far as insurance, they can get licenses revoked for letting coustomers walk inthere... osha i believe it is....


anyways thats just my .02 so scream at me if you want... lol

This post has been edited by monkey: Jun 16, 2008 - 12:01 AM

i can tell ur a mechanic eh jumpsuit???And our celis out handle quite a few luxury cars and some of us are faster,dont come to a celica site and diss celicas. ,thats my screaming..



This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: Jun 16, 2008 - 1:31 AM

for something so easy, you should've done it yourself...

This was my Lexus that they "test" drove for an oil change, not my Celica. It's the first scheduled maintenance and they offer it for free. I always change my own oil and air filter (no brainers) but since this was a free service, I took used it. But even if they drove my Celica like that, I'd still be pissed. I don't know about you guys, but whenever someone gets into the driver's seat of my car, I get a weird feeling like I just want to grab em and tossing them the hell out

So yeah, I treat my cars like my own children (if I had kids, that is)

That sucks man, I understand they need to test drive the car after something more major, but oil change shouldn't require any test driving.

Not to argue with you or anything Nam, but Lexus dealerships usually test drive every vehicle for any type of service. It's just part of the service. There is a certain procedure that the techs need to follow, and the test drive is just the last thing they have to do before turning in the RO. Dealers usually have certain test drive routes on which techs are supposed to travel on. Our test drive route for Longo Lexus is under 1 mile. There are certain circumstances in which the vehicle will need to be driven on the highway to diagnose certain complaints and see if the problem was remedied. However, I'm not sure how things are run over at that dealer, but 3 miles seems like a bit much for a simple service. In this situation, you should have complained to your service consultant. What usually happens is that they will refuel the vehicle for you. Maybe not to a full tank, but atleast to what you came in with.

Well I don't mind them taking it out for a test drive, but ever since gas prices have been increasing, I've been keeping a close eye over my MPG. So I "work" hard to bring that number up...on a full tank, I can get about 30MPG (kinda hard to do on a V8. But after this stint at the dealership, all the gas I saved got wiped out in 3 miles. It floored me. A whole week's worth of careful driving all gone in less than 2 hours (probably more like 2 minutes)!

Again, it's not the fact that they took it out, but the fact that they abused it while they had it. You know that "estimated range" on the trip counter? It was 35 when I brought it in. When I got it back, it was down to 8. Really? 8? From 35? And actual miles driven was 3? Yeah, I call that abuse.

Ok, well when you put it that way, then yeah, they must have been mashing it pretty hard then for those 3 miles. The techs were irresponsible.

lol..that dude ****in had a ball...sucks...i would sue or something and get your money back for that lost gas

ok with that being said, i would have complained... if they cleaned the throttle body or what nots, they usually eff with the throttle for about 5 min blowing smoke everywhere.... but just oil.... now thats rediculous... even if they did a complete flush, the mpg computer in the car wouldnt have been affected by the throttle being toyed with by hand... you actually have to be driving... so they drove your car and drove it hard....

ya you have reason to be mad!

lol and no im not a mechanic but i spend alot of time in service so i see what all they do....

well here is an easier way to express most of our feelings about letting people test drive our cars for no reason............

would you let someone test drive your girl????i think not!! nuff said

yep.....I remember getting my Audi serviced and like they took off forever......saw the car coming in around a corner haulin A$$ lol, didn't bother me TOO much though i figure if they break it ill make em fix it.

And when we were trading in the RSX ASPEC i could hear I-VTEC from a mile away......that rly made me mad, although it was getting traded in I didn't want them ragging it out lol

i have to say if anyone took my car out for a drive on a oil change and used lots of fuel i would quite simply smack them in the mouth... thankfully i do my own work and mate owns a garage who i work with but if toyota did, which ive known some to do, id be seriously annoyed.