O2 = buku

So last last week the check engine light came on in the Tacoma and stayed on.  This typically never means anything good.  The truck was still working just fine but I figured since I had a couple gymless days I would schedule an appointment to get it looked at yesterday.

I got a call mid-morning saying an O2 sensor was bad, the one that is on the exhaust manifold.   He rattled off the various parts of the repair, including the oil change I was going to have them do while it was in there.  He didn’t give me a grand total but I roughly came up with like $375 in my head, sheesh.

I was a bit annoyed as he rattled of some of the line items, for example that they were charging me a separate $95 to run diagnostics which means they plugged into the truck computer and got back a code, something that took 5 minutes at most.  While I was on the phone they also mentioned that the pressure readings on some of the injectors was a bit low for which they recommended an injector cleaner service for the low low price of only $175.  I laughed inside at the ridiculous number while I told them no thanks.  I’ll buy a $5 bottle of injector cleaner and dump it in the tank.

When I picked up the truck the bill came out to $425.  Since my early figuring wasn’t done on a calculator and since taxes weren’t in there I didn’t really feel like going over the bill in detail.  Let’s just say I left there with the feeling I was bent over a bit.  I guess these things are going to start popping up with a 10 year old vehicle with nearly 110k on the odometer.