While I was at my Chrysler dealer yesterday to get the TPMS reset (didn't work, won't work and the bulb will soon be coming out) I was talking with the service rep and he was telling me how much he enjoyed driving the XFires that come in for maintenance or were being prepared for delivery to a purchaser.

Anyhow, the rep told me about a guy that managed to get on a curb with his XFire, knocked a hole in the oil pan and then fried the engine because he didn't know he had lost oil pressure until too late (I'm guessing under the influence of some liquid spirit). The service rep told me that it cost over $15,000 to get the car repaired and back in shape. He said because the engines are hand made you have to pull them apart to determine exactly what bearings need to be ordered for each journal. He said the MB engines are not mass produced like the Chrysler engines and there is a difference.

I thought to myself that the repair cost the guy as much as the car was worth. There must be a moral to this story somewhere.