just took my faithful car in for a standard log book service… expectation $200.00. Pick it up and apparently all the brakes had to be machined and replaced and some C shaft was split and replaced… $820.00 please… oh and you have a hole in your muffler but we left that… would it make any difference if I knew more about cars? Maybe… but they’d still be robber barons in dirty overalls. (Darren Saturday | 2 Comments)
I think what bothers me most about getting my car serviced is that the mechanics could tell me anything — and I mean anything — and I’d hand them money for it. If they told me there was a $400 Honesty Surcharge for not lying about what’s wrong with my car, I’d probably pay it without thinking twice, and then give them another $300 because my Finkelstein Rods need to be rotated after the third full moon every year.
Murray @ Midnight
Yup me too. In fact they always seem to telephone me as I am about to go into a meeting (or the bathroom) and seek approval for a series of repairs that all seem pretty life threatening with each doo-hickey attracting a small associated fee… it’s just there seems to be a lot of these hickeys… to be fair, the car drives really well now… I just gotta work out which kid or pet I’m gonna have to sell to payoff American Express for the charges.