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Originally Posted by Buehler445
His garage keeper policy should cover it. Presuming he has it, which it would be inexplicable not to, but dudes are making heavy calls with insurance these days.
I agree. Give him some business. Even if you were going to do it yourself. Lob him a softball. Toxs idea of talking about future upgrades is a good one. Great one in fact. One that separates a good people person from an asshat like me.
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I don't
need rear discs...
But I kinda
want rear discs...
"Hey, Mrs. DJLN -- we just 'saved' probably $1,200 in labor by not having the car for a few weeks, and rear discs would do a lot for safety. Yeah, that's it - safety. I think we should go ahead and get that done..."
I'm not gonna have him bother with the gauge. That's maybe a 30 minute job with
my dumb ass doing it. It's not worth the effort for him to move cars around in his shop for that kind of thing.
The silver lining, such as it is, is that when he drove the car and then asked my thoughts on it (which were glowing) he at least said "yeah, I think I'm gonna have to upgrade my GTO now..."
So he's at least focused on the results and excited about those rather than lamenting the winding road to get there.
The guy that did the paint somehow ended up with one of the center caps I ended up not using (paid for 'em but decided they were too big) so I gotta eventually head back over there to pick that up from him. So I'll chat with him about the rear discs and maybe rebuilding the front discs when I go do that.