Change your oil, dammit
Infiniti continues to look for ways to lure people into its dealerships for service. Last time out, it was a straight cash bribe of $50. Now it’s a drawing for:
- Thirty-nine months with a G37 convertible, including all maintenance, and a lackey to wheel the machine to and from the dealership for you.
- Two-year Elite Maintenance Service Plans (200 of them).
- $50 Service Reward Cards (500 of them).
There’s also a coupon for a 5-percent discount on any service, though the fine print notes ominously, “Offer may not apply to vehicles requiring adhesive wheel weights.”
Elite Maintenance, at least if you get the G37, is defined thusly:
Infiniti Elite Schedule 1 maintenance plan consists of seven (7) types of maintenance services and seventeen (17) types of maintenance inspections including thirteen (13) oil changes and seven (7) four (4) wheel tire rotations (excluding G35 and G37 models) for thirty-nine (39) months or 45,000 miles, whichever occurs first; maintenance offered once every (3) months during covered thirty-nine (39) month period or every 3,750 miles whichever occurs first. Major 30,000 mile service schedule and Tire Road Hazard Protection also included.
It’s just a damn shame they couldn’t get themselves to spell out “forty-five thousand.” And anyway, this schedule is mostly consistent with their recommendations over the years. They’re not going to rotate the G’s tires, though: must be those wicked adhesive wheel weights.
I can’t see owning, or leasing, a G37 droptop, though. The retractable hard top has to go somewhere, and in the process of going there takes up almost all the available cargo room: you could stash a candy bar back there, maybe, if it were, say, 2.3 Musketeers. For the World Tours, this is decidedly suboptimal.
It has been 2550 miles since Gwendolyn’s last spa day; I don’t think I’m going to hit 1200 miles between now and the end of September, when registration for the drawing ends.
