What car are you talking about?
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:10 PM, clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I got screwed over in March. Shop hosted a club event and I bit on their > offer of reduced rates to have work done. The tech was not qualified to > work on a D-jet system and buggered it up very well. It now stumbles and > backfires as well as runs overly rich. It was having some minor backfiring > before, but now it runs poorly. They write up this big list of all manner > of work they can still do, and it comes to close to $10k. I talked to a > few other members and they too got screwed over. > > My standard indy has been honest about how hard it is to work on getting > the thing right. He is averse to throwing parts at it, which was what the > other shop did. I took the SL to him to get the steering lock changed out > with the fleabay one. Stealership did not get the new tumbler in over > three months after I ordered it. I took the old one to a locksmith, who > cut new code keys and cleaned the lock. I went back to my indy to get the > lock changed out. It took him less than a half hour. Minimal charge is > for half hour. I whip out my wallet, and he tells me to go home, it was on > him. The ten minute fixes and fast hops on the lift normally get the same > treatment > > clay > > > > On Jul 29, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Gary Hurst via Mercedes wrote: > > > shops gouge you. depending on how busy they are and who he talks to, > that > > same job is 400 instead of 1200. i guess the microecoomist calls this > > "price discrimation". you get what you can and that is different from > > everyone > > > > there is someone who will do this job for less than half and do it well > > enough. he's just gotta go talk to people to find it > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < > > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > >> The boy in DC has been driving the 98 Cad. Calls me the other day and > >> says the brake light has come on, brakes are a bit mushy, so I tell him > to > >> take it to a shop. He does that today. They give him a quote of $703. > I > >> call and talk to the guy. $80 for rear pads (I put new ones on the > front > >> not that long ago, they are like $20 a set). $88x2 for rear rotors which > >> may be sorta reasonable, fluid and flush for $139, and $227 for labor. > >> Their labor rate was for 1.7hr. $48 for "shop fees" which includes rags > >> and brake cleaner, a standard charge. Total BS. I guess that sorta > adds > >> up with taxes and such. Reluctantly after going over the fluid/flush > >> number (how hard is that?) I tell them to go ahead since he needs the > car > >> and has no time to deal with this stuff and the car has not required a > lot > >> of work over the years, so whatever. > >> > >> So then they call him and say there is a problem with the a brake line > >> leaking. I am thinking maybe a flex line. I call them back, the guy > says > >> a front hard line is cracked or something and is leaking, which is why > the > >> pedal was soft. I ask what that will cost, he tells me the total is now > >> $1228. Over $500 to replace a hard line? WTF??? So I tell the guy > that > >> seems quite excessive, a line is maybe $30 and how long to replace it? > >> $500 labor to replace a line? Then he tells me, well, you know, we have > >> to do flairs, and those are hard to get right, then there is > >> blahblahblah.... I tell him to move the car out, my son will come get > it > >> and take it somewhere else. Then he starts in, "Well if you don't want > >> quality work done that's your choice...." and I hang up. > >> > >> I am just so angry at these guys trying to screw over customers who are > >> sorta over a barrel. The brake line thing is probably BS too but what > are > >> you gonna do? My wife had a patient who worked for a dealer as a mech, > and > >> then for an indy, he would tell her these stories about how they would > >> "find" problems and jack the prices up, then do nothing to the car but > >> charge for it. He said it was just standard behavior on all these guys > he > >> had ever run across. He finally quit and does work for people on the > side, > >> cash, and said he was making OK money and happy he was doing the right > >> thing. > >> > >> So anyway I told him to go find a Sears or a Midas or something to do > the > >> brake job, how hard can that be and it won't be anywhere near $1200. I > >> know, Midas and Sears, but.... Hell I could ship my tools and fly up > there > >> and still be like $800 ahead. > >> > >> --R > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > >> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > >> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. 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