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I did tip him--quite well, IIRC--when he gave me the car back. But then he disappeared quickly enough that there was no one to discuss the smell with. And I had no time to wait around. Dumb. :(

But those guys at least knew how to drive!!

Clearly I've been spoiled by the parking guys at the NYC garage where my other car lives. They whip vehicles around frontward, backward, whatever, into tiny spots, around obstacles, into and out of elevators, etc. etc. Better and much, much faster than I could do, and I provide myself on car...

As far as I can tell the clutch recall just reprograms the engine to reduce torque when the clutch gets hot enough to start a fire (!!!). Shouldn't be an excuse for a fried clutch. I guess the valet is just lucky the truck didn't burst into flames under their abuse!

My guess is he left the parking brake on and tried to move it. Or something similarly stupid. It's hard to believe that one could ride a clutch to death in the short trip from a hotel garage to the front door, but I guess anything is possible.

I made the mistake of giving my truck to a hotel valet-parker. When I got it back three days later, all the windows were open and it reeked inside. Smelled like clutch, but I was in a hurry and figured, ehh, how bad could one trip from the parking garage be? Surely a windows-down spin down the...

Wow, leave a few crumbs of spilled dried liver dog treats under your parking brake and everyone gets on you! ?

Great, thanks!

Hi from a new Jeep owner. I’ve had my truck for a few months now, and noticed that the lever for the parking brake is misaligned (or at least, not aligned with the rest of the console). Is that the same on everyone’s truck? Or is mine screwed up? It doesn’t seem to have affected the brake’s...