"pop your hood" Options

[supershannon77]

Today at work I had my mind blown. I work in a doctors office and many of the doctors have really nice cars. I started talking to the one doctor about his car. Its an audi s5 and he had it built to his liking. I was telling him how beautiful I thought it was. Later, he went out to put the top up before it started to rain so I ran out and asked him if he could pop his hood for me so I could see the engine. He looked at me with a shameful face and said "sure, but I have no idea how to pop it" he than gave me his manual and asked me to help him. I popped it and admired it for a little while. Then, One of the other doctors came out and asked us what we were doing and talked to us a bit. Later, the doctor that came out to talk to us came to me and said he was jealous I didn't ask to see his engine so I said "sure, I'd love to see it".He has a mercedes E350. As we start walking to his car he tells me "btw, I don't know how to pop my hood either" I just couldn't believe it. He took a few minutes to try and figure it out but I just walked over and popped it for him. I told another doctor my disbelief that they couldn't pop their hood. That doctor, a third doctor laughed and said "I can't pop mine". I was shocked. I mean I understand these are brand new cars but I just imagined that popping a hood was a simple task and after spending that much money you may just want to simply admirer your engine.

Anyway, I just wanted to share because I thought maybe someone else could appreciate how shocked I was that these people have these beautiful cars and have never looked at their engine. They also have never washed their own cars. If I spent that much money on a car I know for sure no one else would be washing it or touching it and that I would be washing it often.

Any thoughts?

[supershannon77]

The one doctor told me today that the dealer charges him $300 to change his oil. He said he went somewhere else who charged him $100. He was like but you have to understand they said its full syntectic so its more. I was thinking I use full synthetic and do it myself for what maybe $40.

This post has been edited by supershannon77: Jul 19, 2012 - 5:11 PM

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The one doctor told me today that the dealer charges him $300 to change his oil. He said he went somewhere else who charged him $100. He was like but you have to understand they said its full syntectic so its more. I was thinking I use full synthetic and do it myself for what maybe $40.

Your engine doesn't take 8qts of oil, have an underpanel that has to come off, have a horrible service system that takes 15 minutes to reset, and have a special $20 oil filter. $100 for syn with filter and reset is about right, $300 at the dealer was probably something like an A service which is every 10K and has a check list and tire rotation and cabin filter change and a bunch of other things which should be getting done to the car.