{"id":893,"date":"2010-02-27T19:48:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T02:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2010-02-27T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T02:48:15","slug":"a-day-of-car-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/a-day-of-car-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"A day of car maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the <em>H.S. Golightly<\/em> (Holly to her friends) has recently ticked over the 60k mile-mark, and is in need of some maintenance. I took a few minutes a couple days ago and spoke with a Kia dealership to see what this sort of service entails and costs.<\/p>\n<p>The service consists of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change the timing and accessory belts <\/li>\n<li>Flush radiator, flush transmission, change oil &amp; filter<\/li>\n<li>Change the spark plugs<\/li>\n<li>Total: $1185.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>Not having that sort of money lying around, I figured I was going to have to get my hands dirty and do as much of this myself as possible. Breaking it down, the belt changes only come out to $360, and half of that is labor. That seems doable, but will probably have to wait a bit.<\/p>\n<p>This means that they want some $825 for changing a bunch of fluids and the spark plugs. further research on the spark plugs shows that the OEM plugs are NGK and run $2.50 each retail &#8211; but the dealership wants $15 each!<\/p>\n<p>I call &#8216;horseshit&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>So, off I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilcanhenry.com\/\">Oil Can Henry&#8217;s<\/a> and my local <a href=\"http:\/\/kragen.com\/ChangeZipCode.aspx?DestinationPage=%2fDefault.aspx\">Schuck&#8217;s<\/a>, and between the two I got a better set of spark plugs and all the fluids and filters changed for $200 plus the time it took. Which was significant, because OCH was packed when I got there. I waited in the car for an hour before I could get into a bay, but it was still worth it to have all that bit sorted by someone else. After all, I had my copy of <em>Sherlock Holmes<\/em> in the car with me, so it&#8217;s not like I lacked for company :)<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the H.S. Golightly (Holly to her friends) has recently ticked over the 60k mile-mark, and is in need of some maintenance. I took a few minutes a couple days <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/a-day-of-car-maintenance\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}