I hate car dealerships!!! *warning* Long rant.

Around here we still have some dealers selling special air for tires. Some things never change.

I have a 2018 Accord 2.0T that also needed the fuel pump recall. Changing it went quickly and seems to have had no bad effects.

The only bad part was the service place where I have non-warranty work done told me about the recall, before I got the letter, and I called the dealer. The phone operator had no idea, so instead of taking the message and having someone call me back she told me to take the car in so they could inspect the old fuel pump. When I got there, they had no idea why I was there and they weren't supposed to look at the fuel pump, just replace it, and they didn't have the new ones yet. So it was a wasted trip. Oh well, at least it didn't spoil a trip and I didn't have any "bad gas".

What did you eat?

I love a good rant, especially someone elses! Kudos to your wife!

You should contact the gas station and ask if any other customers have experienced the same.
A local gas stadion of mine had problem with leaking tanks and you would get a mixture of gas and water, resulting limp mode.
(The gas station had to take the bill)

Most cars today with hydraulic valves/lifters don't require adjustment. Well, not after 2 years..
And if so, should'nt the warranty cover it?

Most likely faulty pump (New parts broken do happen, and even if he measured it does not mean it's OK)
Or a jammed/misplaced gas hose during replacement.

Remember Murphys law when working on cars..

Think yourself lucky, Lucas used to sell special smoke for wiring harnesses.

Don't even let me start on it. VAG group is saying that oil consumption on 2.0 TFSI are within the specs, if engine is consuming............ 1qt of oil per 2500 miles..I always had a bottle qt of oil in my boot...Also, I was joking with them, that is my engine takes that much oil, I should never do an oil change, because by the time 10k miles goes by, I would have all new oil in it, just from adding...........(I did a research on it, people were saying rebuilding engine doesn't help. There were bunch of reports, where guys had rings, pistons etc replaced under warranty, but engine would still consume oil). I had a B6, but Passat. Changed 6 dealerships, before I found one that I can trust. They all think I'm an A-hole, because I want them to work on my car without creating more damage to it. I should admit though VW USA is one of the best customer services for auto-manufacturer, dealerships are crap (at least the ones, I've dealt with). I have a lot of stories to share.....Not many mechanics can work on German cars in the US of A.

On a motorcycle theme, I brought my Yamaha S-Max scooter (3 years old w 6000 kms) into the only authorized Montreal dealer last spring for a tuneup and to mount brand new tires I brought with me. Picked it up, paid the $500 bill, and left...

- on the way home noticed the front brake lever was basically bottoming out on the handlebar, called back and had to wait a couple days before they could take it back in, turns out they bled the brakes but forgot to repressurize them. Great, they're only brakes on a scooter, what could possibly go wrong?

- all summer noticed a very dangerous shimmy in the front end whenever I would remove one hand from the bar, I checked everything I could think of for faults over the course of a few months (and drove very carefully in the interim). I thought maybe the new tires were bad? Badly balanced? I mean WTF! I refused to bring the bike back to the dealer as just the brake thing alone pissed me off and destroyed my confidence in them. I enlisted the help of a friend with tons of moto wrenching experience and we went over the bike with a fine toothed comb...turns out the front axle was barely more than finger-tight, they forgot to tighten the front wheel after changing the rubber. Ratchet took almost a full 360 turn to tighten both sides...that's a lot for a fairly beefy axle bolt. It's only my front wheel, what could possibly go wrong?

- at the same time we fixed the front end we noticed the rear tire had been mounted backwards. This is no huge deal on dry pavement but if I got caught in hard rain or very wet roads, the reversed tread pattern would basically inject water into the center of the tire and potentially land me on my butt with all the attendant joy that would accompany that. What could possibly go wrong?

- recently got a recall notice that a whole series of Yamaha bikes had not had their head nuts torqued down to spec on the assembly line, but there was not a chance in hell I was going to bring it to the dealer to do this kind of work, I mean can you imagine the potential outcome??? By this time I had learned my lesson and just called my buddy again; I bought a torque wrench and a service manual and we did the damned recall ourselves.

Am totally done with dealers, their service depts just hire half-assed interns anyway and are apparently left completely unsupervised based on my experiences (that by the way could have killed me). I smeared these guys all over social media and google reviews so hopefully they will get some payback.

Cheers
Andy

Is it? I bet 99.9999% of the time they send the customer off with underinflated tires since nitrogen doesn't expand when hot like air (never mind the fact that the air is 78% nitrogen to begin with). Racing applications are completely different....known temps, race distance and other variables. Just another scam....

Very good info here if you want to go down the rabbit hole.

https://www.mojotiretools.com/N2_for_tires_FAQ.htm

Pretty sure a mechanical engineer who works for the EPA has that level of knowledge or access to a coworker who does. More than likely (having met the author) he simply wrote it in layman's terms on his lunch break.

In any case with tire pressure monitoring systems standard these days on most cars and motorcycles (some even displaying PSI) the use of nitrogen is a solution in search of a problem IMHO.