I love playing a good game or two but I’ve been suffering a gaming slump for a long time now. The Sims 3 has been a fairly interesting and new experience. It’s a little disappointing in that we are all used to seeing gobs of items for us to buy and now it’s like they started over. The game, 10 or so expansions, and micro transactions will surely make this the cash cow EA hopes and needs it to be.
I am happy to share that I’ve been getting into Tomb Raider: Underworld for the PS3. It seems to have gotten a lower score and faster price drop than other titles but this is actually a fun game.
We drove up to Bremerton to get our oil changed only to find out that our maintenance had expired. Apparently it was only valid until 60K miles. I was a little miffed that they couldn’t tell me that over the phone. Secondly, they tried to guilt me into spending $411 to have our 75K service done on the Honda. This includes an oil change, tire rotation, cabin and air filter changes, transmission fluid flush, and a rear differential fluid flush. No thanks. I figure I can do it all myself for about a quarter to a third of the cost. The only part I am unsure of is the fluid flushes.
We also had to get our tires replaced. The OEM ones were bald and starting to show the metal. I chose Discount Tire and went with the Yokohama tires. They have a 60K warranty. I went with the replacement insurance. All said and done it came to $142 a tire. I figure my Mustang tires will be more expensive; around the $200/tire range.
I still can’t believe you have that many miles on that car.
$411 is a lot of money for a few fluid changes, but many of those, such as the transmission and Differential, aren’t really necessary until around 100k.
The Subaru dealership gives us free oil changes for as long as we own our vehicle, but they still send us messages sometimes asking us to go in for a special deal on maintenance. They want something like $150 to change the oil (which is already free), rotate the tires (which I can do myself, or take to discount tire for free) and a general 79 point inspection.
The filters you can definitely do on your own for next to nothing, just order the filters online and spend the five minutes it will take to install them.
The road hazard warranty through Discount Tire is amazing. It covers EVERYTHING, and if you end up using it to replace a tire, you can buy the road hazard warranty for the new tire.
Right around 40,000 miles, you should try to drive over a lot of screws and nails to take full advantage of that offer.