Irony
I stopped taking my car to the local Honda service center because it was taking 3+ weeks to get an appointment.
There was another place closer to my house (it has "Fire" in the title). I started using them for tires, oil changes, etc., and they were great. Nice guys, 2 days for an appointment.
I had my oil changed there two weeks ago.
As I was driving off, I thought I smelled gas fumes, but dismissed it as coming from another vehicle at a stop light. Or something.
The fumes didn't go away, though, so I went back to "Fire" last Sunday. I described the problem, and the person behind the counter said it would probably be better to go to the dealer, because they didn't do emission/exhaust work.
Fine.
I call the Honda service center and they have an appointment in two days. Oh, and it's a $130 to bring the car in for diagnosis. I guess that's how they solved their service level issues--by extorting people until they stopped bringing their cars in for service.
I needed the dealer, though, so I sucked it up and took the car in.
They called me a while ago. The service place hadn't replaced the oil cap after the oil change. Oil's everywhere, of course. There's a bit of gasoline in oil, and that's where the fumes came from.
I'm going to try to get reimbursed from "Fire," and I'm sure it will be fruitless, even though I took the car there first and they sent me away.
It makes me just want to drive the car to a used car lot and sell it. If you add the cost of service (oil changes are $90 now--for an Accord!) and insurance (50% more expensive than last year), my junky 2014 has suddenly become very expensive to have.
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