I normally change the oil in all my vehicles, but when temperatures soar above 90 I'll take it somewhere and have it done. I took my Dodge Ram to walmart this weekend and was reminded why doing it yourself is normally the best option. The check-in guy takes my info and tried to upsell all sorts of stuff right off the bat. I declined the vac n' window service, air filter, and wiper blades. I finally told him I simply wanted a basic oil change and the ETA until it would be done. He told me 1 hour. I shopped and in an hour, returned to the service area to see my truck had not even been moved. I had stuff to do, so I cancelled the oil change and left. The oil change tech moved my truck out of line for me and I hopped in to go home. At 45mph driving down a busy main road, my hood flies open without warning, banging the top of my windshield and completely obscuring my view. I quickly glanced in my rear view and saw no one too close behind, so I nailed the brakes as hard as I could hoping the force of the stop would cause the hood to fall back down. The hood did not budge, so I had to stop in the middle of the road and get out to pull the hood back down. The hinges are hopelessly bent and I was barely able to get it to close. I went back and there was a finger pointing contest between the old man that wrote the ticket and the tech that moved my truck. They took pictures and a claim was filled out. Hopefully they'll make it right.
