[Capt Spaulding]

It can't worse than the Acura dealer in Riverside CA was in the late 90s. I had an 88 Integra that was throwing a CEL. I had a FSM, checked the code and it was the cam angle sensor (I think). Being the lazy f*&t I am, I took it to the dealership and told them "It's throwing the code for a cam angle sensor, please replace it." When I picked the car up that evening, they had replaced the distributor. I asked WTH - they said I had been mistaken that it was the distributor that was causing the problem. I asked, "are you absolutely sure?", and got a snotty response.

Went out to the car, fired it up and ... it still threw a CEL - same code. My wife swears she can see the blue cloud in the air to this day. From Texas. Went back inside, had a frank and open discussion with the service manager. Turns out they did NOT HAVE an F'N shop manual for that car. I told him that I DID, but he would need forceps to extract it from his rectum to read it.

A couple of years later I related the story to a student who lived in Corona and was a Honda Mod-Monster. He looked at me and said, "You're THAT guy? That was all the guys at Honda of Corona could talk about for months."