Valvoline Care?

Oil Change the next morning before leaving Kalispell…   You’d think this would be easy but we went through 3 parts stores looking for oil to use and there was very little selection in any of them, the ones that did have something usable only had 1 or 2 quarts of it.  So I ended up having to take notes of what was in which store and combine them all to figure out what to get.  None of them had any of my preferred oil brands so I ended up going with plain Shell Rotella T synthetic, 2 quarts from one place 1 from another (more on this later).

Went to a Valvoline Express Care carwash/oil change place and asked if they would take my oil, one of the attendants said yes but we dont do motorcycles.  I told him I’d do it myself in the parkinglot and hand them the oil afterwards.  I was getting ready to start and the manager comes over and tells me to leave the premises. WTF?  He says we do not allow any motorcycles at all on the lot, you need to go.  We’ll take the oil but you cant park here.  What an ass.  I motioned to the Kawi parked in the shade on the side of the building and he gets defensive, thats an employees bike we dont allow the public to park motorcycles on the premises and storms off.  Jeez!  I can tell you one thing, if we had any Valvoline places in NM I sure as hell wouldnt go to one after being treated that way.

Rode around the block and parked at Taco Bell next door and just did the oil change there, walked my lasagna pan of oil across the parkinglot and handed it to someone and left.  The first guy tried to apologize.

Bike was looking pretty grimy by now and couldnt see out the windshield so left to a different car wash and hozed down the bike.  Had bought a small tube of scratch remover to use on some scuffs I had gotten and handed it to an old guy pollishing his Vette next to me after talking for a while.  Didnt want to carry it 4000 miles all the way home heh.