>Was pleased to finally figure out the car problem. If I had taken the car >to a mechanic I could see him changing injectors, etc. Have been, and had >friends ripped off in a similar fashion in the past, especially women seem >to be targets of this abuse. Had a girl working for me once years ago who >went to a garage to fix a flat tire and ended up buying a new rear axle.
I once had a flat tire on a horse trailer and pulled into a gas station and they sold me a different size tire than the other tire on that side. They told me there was a low spot in the concrete there. I felt so stupid when I got home. At least the tire worked to get me to where I was going. I had my first instance of being a target when we had a 1964 VW Bus (in 1965) and Bob found that 3 of the 4 back brake cylinders were leaking. He told me to take the car to the dealership in the next town and have it fixed. So I packed up the girls (age about 2 and 4) and drove over there. First they tried to tell me that the wheel cylinders could not be leaking. Then they said Bob had invalidated the warranty by taking the wheels off to look and see what the problem was. So I said, Well I'm not driving the car until it is fixed. We will just wait here until you do it." And sat down in the waiting room with the two children and made myself at home. It was done pretty quickly after that. The German mechanic called Bob at home and butter wouldn't melt in his mouth (I was on the other line). But when Bob asked if they had checked the front brakes, his immediate answer was - the brake cylinders on those cars never leak. My last job before I retired was as an occupational health inspector for OSHA. I had a trainee and he said he could see the management (men) thinking that I would be a pushover, and then the shock on their faces when they found that I was not. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
