!*&#^@!!

So for about six months, the Toyota of Riverside people have been pestering me to replace my air cabin filter. This is really something that chaps my hide about having any car maintenance done – they always want to sell me something else. Several times, and always with the reproachful tongue-clucking which is meant to impart, “Okay, but now your car might explode!”

I looked it up – the cabin air filter does exactly what you’d think something with that name does – it filters the air in my cabin. I also looked up how much the part costs. For a genuine Toyota air filter, it’d be around $35.00 retail, or like $20.00 online. The price to replace it at the dealership? $60.00. So that’s like $35.00 for labor. And you know what it takes to put in the part? Just remove the glove box, take off the air filter cover, pop it in, and replace. I tried it this evening. It took me two minutes.

And you know what else? MY CAR DIDN’T EVEN COME WITH A CABIN AIR FILTER.

So they would be replacing…what, exactly? And charging me how much to replace something that the manufacturers didn’t even deem important enough to include standard?

FUCKERS.

My own fault for still going to the damn dealership to get my maintenance done. I hear Joe Pesci screaming, “They fuck you with the cell phones!”

Grrrrr.