eddie13085

some mechanics always want you to spens more money on reparing youre car.. if it means u taking ur car for a peace to be changed they'll swap somthing els and say the problem is fixed.. then when u go back because its still the same problem. they'll fix that then, while they screw up somthing els.. it happend already to me when i went to go for a state inspection sticker. they said it was my right side tire rod when there was no problen with the car at all.. me for being dumb i fell for it but when i bought the parts that they said was wrong. my 1 mechanic said ther's nothan wrong at all take it some were els for the inspection.....

Brianritchie21787

I feel you man, with some mechanics it seems like they're not doing there job 100%. But also, somtimes cars just get to that point where they fall apart.

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capthowdy575

this is true my friend took his 1993 toy to a expert tire center for a brake change when he went to get it back they told him the car woulnt start. well thats odd cause the car was running fine for when he took in. what they had done was tore the mass air flow sensor out of the air box and i mean tore it out. well they didnt want to admit it so they just shoved it in there and acted like it was nothing. long story short they ended up admitting what they did and fixing the problem.

brad_bb

Admitted?! I've never heard of some place admitting they tried cheating you!
The vast majority of shops and mechanics are, in my opinion, either incompetent, or cheatin' theives. Most either don't have the capability or do not want to fix what is wrong the first time, especially if it's something simple - they won't make much on it! I really hate the trial and error "mechanics". They don't really know what's wrong or don't know how or want to run a test to verify what's wrong so they they it's this part and charge you for the job and then you still have the problem and bring it back. Well since it didn't fix they problem, then it obviously wasn't the problem, so why do you have to pay for it? Shouldn't they give you your money back for that? and then fix what was really wrong and have you pay for that. Why do we have to pay for their incompetance? I think many do just to make more money. Well this hasn't happened to me for a long time as now I do all my own repairs. I have had a few emergency situations where I didn't have time and needed work done (on my truck) and they played trial and error and after two times in the shop I drove out only to still have the same problem and drove back and had the shop owner drive it and verify the problem. He didn't offer me any recourse! I could tell he really didn't care, it was closing time and he wanted to leave. Seems no mechanics have pride in their work or skills today. After two such repairs, where the customer had to rent a car while it was in the shop and seeing that it still wasn't repaired, I'd have given them my vehicle and not let them leave with theirs that wasn't fixed right. He didn't seem to have any problem with charging me twice and still not having fixed it. Sorry for the rant.

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madbrad

LOL there's barely a word spelled right in that post.

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