Last Sunday my 2002 Saturn SC1′s “engine service soon light” came on. Immediately I’m pissed. There is NOTHING I hate more than car problems. Incidentally it was the exact same night Nick’s windshield was busted by a softball. (Different story which he should be blogging about)

Any who, Monday I drive to school and the light goes off. I sigh relief, but it still doesn’t sit well with me. I call Saturn and of course they tell me to bring it in, why wouldn’t they…they see opportunity to squeeze the last $10 dollars out of my bank account. I take it in at 8:00 and they claimed it would only be a second for them to hook it up. They even asked me if I was going to wait around. I didn’t, drove Nick to work and by noon I still hadn’t heard anything, so my anger mode kicks in. I call them. The service person who answers tells me that the log shows they are still working on it. (The log…like it is such a huge place that they couldn’t look up from their ‘car and truck’ magazine to see the car being serviced) “Working on it?” I say. Apparently since it is under warranty by 2,000 miles they go ahead and fix the problem without consulting you or telling you how long it will take. Ok, so then “Dave” gets on the phone to tell me it will be done in 10 minutes and that I had 2 things wrong. (Hate to admit this, but it’s obvious I know nothing about car maintenance, I’ll copout saying I’m girly, well about this) So what was wrong…Apparently an intake vacuum leak in cylinder #1 and that caused the intake gasket manifold thing to go bad or crack. (Again bear with me here) Then good ol’Dave proceeds to suggestive sell a tune-up to me. Every time I bring in my car they find something to sell me, dealerships…they are lucky I still had a warranty or I’d be somewhere far from there.

The thing is I love my car; I would recommend a Saturn to anyone. The customer service is great. I had a very pleasant experience looking and purchasing my car. The maintenance department…was slightly disappointing. But all dealership maintenance departments are supposed to be slimy, it’s a rule.

So the same day I’m excited to have my car back. It’s Cinco De Mayo and I am done with school, I go shopping at the Dollar Tree and Target. So exciting Target with an icee in one hand and a bag in the other I notice some slimball parks to close to me. A Saturn owner. I do the slide in, sucking in thing to try to get into my car when BAM a huge gust of wind takes my door and slams it into theirs. I figure its a Saturn the door should of just bounced right off. It didn’t, left a good nickel sized ding and a ding on my door.