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Originally Posted by Baconeater
Same here, I've had my Dakota for 6 years and only had it in the shop one time, and that was for the rear brakes. **** those goddamn drum brakes and all their ****ing springs and wheel cylinders rusted to brake lines that you can't get free without ****ing up the lines. I'll gladly pay someone else to deal with that shit.
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I've dealt with some real bullshit mechanics.
Once I brought my car in and the tech said I had a massive oil leak. $1200 they quoted me. I brought it to a friend and he finds that it's only the front cover leaking (leaked all over the engine making it appear to be several leaks, apparently). Took him like 20 minutes to fix it.
Another time a dealership quoted me $500 to replace an O2 sensor. Bought the sensor for $120 or thereabouts, removed the exhaust manifold, plugged the part in. Fixed in 10 minutes.
Then I had my rear hub bearings go bad. $700 they quoted me. Bought the left rear for $80 and the right rear for $120 (ABS sensor). Fixed in 20 minutes.
I know they've got to make money too but if we're being realistic they're either marking up their parts like 500% or charging $400 per hour for labor.
Don't trust any of those ****ers.