LOF = lube oil and filter…
Mr. Google could have answered that in seconds.
Except, new cars have few, if any, zerk fittings, so LOF has gone away with adding a drop of oil to the generator bushings.
Doesn’t your vehicle still have door hinges and latches??
Besides, it would just sound stupid to say you need a OF, so LOF is still the industrial standard for the most part…
I have two choices. Oil change which includes oil filter or “the works”. The works adds tire rotation to the oil&filter.
When working at an unidentified service station that had a flying horse as its logo. We had a wall chart showing number and location of grease fittings. Hated those GM cars that had inserts, remove insert, install zerk, grease, remove zerk, reinstall fitting. Some owners would allow us to sell them a set of zerks.
More so used behind the scenes… One company we delt with called it a LOFAR, oil filter and rotate… Shops and mechanics can have their own lingo… A lot of professions use their own lingo behind the scenes…
Oh yes! But I can’t go there.
For sure. It’s to separate those in the know from the pretenders. I never liked that when I made presentations at conferences, I avoided argot as much as possible. At one conference, the conference assistant for our section came up after my presentation was done and told me she understood what I was talking about. That was the best compliment I got.
+1
I used to know a guy who kept railing about "T&E, “T&E”, “T&E”.
I knew that he was referring to a state court decision regarding “thorough & efficient” education, but almost everyone to whom he was complaining had no clue as to what “T&E” meant.
The general public deserves a thorough and efficient explanation, rather than subjecting them to abbreviated argot.
I think a lot of the auto service jargon we use is left over from the days when the mechanic or service writer was hand writing things on a 3-copy repair order with limited space. When I got started in this business I might be handed a ticket that said:
LOF
M/B 4
FEA
Brakes
I knew I was doing a lube and oil, mount and balance 4 tires, front end alignment, and check brakes.
Ahh, so these are internal codes for quick lubes, garages, and other service facilities, not Gen-Y/Z acronyms or abbreviations.
Much of the driving public, including myself, would not have gleaned that. Thank you.
You know darn well you, me, @davesmopar and @asemaster are all roughly the same age
So why the heck do you think we’d be using Gen Y or Gen Z acronyms?
please try to give people some more credit
I know a handful of friends and acquaintances, from my mid-fifties into their sixties, that do use those things …
“IDK” - I don’t know
“HBD” - Happy Birthday
etc.
They should be lecturing me against using such gibberish, not the other way 'round.
Ehh, I don’t know that I would call them internal codes. They’re really just standard abbreviations much like anything else. True, they’re car-related, but there’s nothing secret or special about them, and they’re fairly self-explanatory when taken in context. I’m sure people know what I mean if I say “my sinuses are constantly stuffy so I went to an ENT.”
Does anyone ever fully spell out MPG, HDTV, HOV lane, GPA, USB, et cetera?
Maybe standard in an automotive context, or within automotive circles, but not the general public, or average schmoe on the street(myself!)
I do.
Albeit maybe not those specific examples.
I prefer to remove all doubt or potential for misunderstandings in my personal communications, in these forums or elsewhere.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, American Broadcasting Company, positive crankcase ventilation are a few of my spell-outs.
Yup
He has “accused” me of being very young because I like modern technology. Why would somebody make such bizarre–and totally inaccurate–assumptions?
Young in the mind is what I intended.
Contrarily, I’m very “old in the mind”! I prefer the automotive and other technologies of 20 or more years ago.
My Pastor is a ‘young’ 70 - he wears Apple Watch and always has the latest gen iPhone.
I’m an old 56: quite content with my 6 year old iPhone 13.
I hope that clears up what I meant.
Wow, any complaints about how the tire placement post has gone onto abbreviations 
I had to look up argot, my first thought was ergot.
As far as abbreviations, I come from the medical field. Hospitals have a list of acceptable abbreviations. Is the list used? No. In the military we were taught, in writing, the first use of an abbreviation must include the meaning. In speech, same rule. I used an abbreviation that was common at my assignment, but largely unknown elsewhere, that was noted on the critique of my speech.
Back to tire placement: LF, RF, LR, RR!
RR = rolling resistance!