a very expensive oil change.
We hit the road in Custer heading to Loveland CO and onto Rocky Mountain National Park. Long day but we were making the most of the town by stopping at Costco to buy booze for the wedding, getting an oil change and tire rotation at Les Schwab and then heading to Estes Park. The Costco run was successful…see pic below. The oil change, not so much.
After an hour or so hanging in the Les Schwab parking lot with ZsaZsa, the tech informed us that he’d spilled “a little” oil and was taking the truck to the car wash before checking us out. 20 minutes later it was still in the bay. After about 2.5 hours at the shop, he informed us that he couldn’t start the truck. Long story short….Clifford had to be towed from Les Schwab to the Chevy dealer the next day (this was Friday) and they probably couldn’t get to it until the following Tuesday. Insert WTF…..
We spent the night in the Les Schwab parking lot, at this point Tim’s perspective was much more generous than mine, and the following day they rented us a car and we checked into the TownPlace suites in Loveland for what seemed like a year. (After unloading significant $$ amount of booze into ZsaZsa, turning on the air and praying no one at LS unplugged the trailer. There were nightmares of champagne exploding under the bed!)
We got to know the downtown area of Loveland quite well, made friends with the staff at the TPS (that’s what insiders call it) and waited for the Chevy folks to get to it. Diagnosis: they had spilled gallons of oil all throughout the engine saturating the electronic components, overfilled it again and then tried to jump it and blew a 500 amp fuse. ( Insert cash register bell chiming for Les Schwab!)
All told, we spent 8 days in Loveland, LS racked ups bill north of $3k and we finally hooked up ZsaZsa and apprehensively towed her to arrived in RMNP.
