More Money into my POS Car

This weekend I spent $80 more on my POS car. A cylinder coil went out, so I was running on 5 cylinders instead of 6 and it was obvious. It has been going out, but probably only noticable to someone who drives the car every single day. Then, while T was driving it it jerked and revved and didn't really shift right then the check engine light came on.
Two different Firestones wouldn't check the code. I've played the game with my car before where I turn it off and the light isn't on when I turn it back on, but there is still something wrong with the damn thing but they can't help me if there are no codes. So, I wanted them to check the codes before turning it off. They didn't have time. -.-  yeah right. So I took it to O'Reilly and they said the third engine coil was going out, or had gone out. They priced the part at $68 and we left. T decided he could replace it and went back and bought it (with a lifetime warranty) for $80. (btw, I'm selling this car in just a few months. His reply was that someone would get to enjoy the warranty, and I asked him how he planned on giving them the receipt. boys). Then he basically unscrewed the old and screwed on the new. Fixed.

I'm going to call Firestone and see how much that would cost if they did it. I'm betting on twice the price. At least $120. I'm not knocking them, but it really made me mad that they wouldn't just pull codes on my car. It takes 5 minutes. They tried to tell me they have to run a full diagnostic blah blah it could take 30 minutes or it could take 3 hours, but O'Reilly did it in 2 minutes. I know they just don't want to pull codes for free for everyone that walks through the door that will then go buy parts at O'Reilly, but if they would have just pulled the damn codes I would have told them to fix it and left my car there! I have spent thousands of dollars at Firestone (JUST IN THE LAST 2 YEARS) but, it doesn't matter because I'm just a number in a computer. *sigh* Now I'm just getting dramatic. Can you tell it really upset me?

Anyways, it was *only* $80 more into my car. Can't wait to get rid of this thing.