Post your mechanic scam stories, I'd love to hear them.
The Mechanical Jew
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Matthew Foster
>Exhaust Pipe cracks right after resonator
>Take it in to Midas
>Tell me they can weld it, don't need to replace whole thing
>Look under my car when they're done
>They cut the fucking resonator off and welded a straight pipe on
>A couple weeks later notice my bumper melted around the cutout for the muffler
>Take car back in to to show them they fucked up
>They tell me I hit something which bent the pipe up and it will be $400 to fix
When they told me they would weld it back on I figured they would just weld it back on to the resonator. And I figured they wouldn't compensate me for the melted bumper but I would have liked a simple sorry rather than them trying to fuck me a second time.
Here's another. My dad recommended to me a local mechanic who he always had good experiences with. When I took my car in for grinding noise when turning, I got a $100 diagnosis fee and they told me it was the torque converter. I took it to a meineke a couple weeks later and they charged me 50 bucks to bend the piece back in place that was rubbing when turning.
Lucas Rivera
oh my god...
>own manual rx8
>light chirping sound when clutch is depressed
> read around, figure its the throwout bearing
> driving when suddenly loud screech and weird smell, throwout bearing exploded
> pretty far from my rotary mechanic and decide it would be cheaper to get my clutch fixed nearby
>take it to chucks auto-repair
>"I'll examine for $50 and call you back bro"
> calls me back
> "hey man, i think you're gonna need a new flywheel etc etc it's gonna be $2400
> That is literally more than what the car is worth
> "okay man I'll see if I can do something else"
---- 15 minutes later ------
> "good news man, if you don't need a flywheel It'll just be $1,800"
> literallywhat.jpg
------- next day --------
> get my car towed to my rotary mechanic
> full clutch fix for $900, adds new battery and defloods my engine cause chuck the tard flooded it and wasted my battery
>Literally speechless for how awful some mechanics are
Finding a good mechanic is literally half of buying a car
>
Kevin Garcia
My car battery kept dying. Turns out it was grounding out on the trunk hatch that was busted. Charged like $500 to fix but someone later told me they can find that really quick with a scan tool or something.
Joshua Evans
>fucking murano keeps randomly shuddering at speed
>3 shithead mechanics can't figure shit out, change tires, change brakes, one asshole changes out the motor mounts and crank bearings
>car now consumes a quart of oil per thousand miles
>take it in to a suspension guy like I wanted to but sister's car and she wasn't listening until now desperate
>fucking $80 CV joint.
...
>trade car for an LS400
Adam Ortiz
> '03 Mustang GT.
> Very hot afternoon, car overheats right when I get to my workplace
> Coolant bubbling over the cap and all over the street
> Tank is bone dry
> Co-workers recommend shop right next to the office
> Take it in during my shift, this is quite convenient
> Get a call
> "It's probably the headgaskets. There's moisture in your exhaust. It'll be 900$ to fix."
> "Okay, I'll take my car back for now and get back to you"
> Fill the reservoir with water and drive it home after work.
> Buy a new radiator cap the next day.
> Good as new, no overheating problems since.
Henry Miller
How is the LS?
Grayson Wright
> car is shaking at several speeds
> 'you need new brake disks'
> get new brake discs, car still shaking
> 'we changed some suspension parts'
> car keeps shaking, keep driving until I feel unsafe and it makes significant noise when changin lanes etc
> 'wow your bearings are very very bad'
> change both front wheel bearing
> car drives smooth as butter
Motherfuckers
Noah Perez
>The Mechanical Jew
Sorry, I'm a little too enamored with the stormfront jew who wandered here from the land of aryan-approved shilling. I'm so proud of you for sharing this important message with the destitute autists of this californian tax-paying board.
Seriously, thank you for your service.
Benjamin Gonzalez
About one metric fuckton better than the murano.