This is going 2 b a bit of a bitch thread ok fellas. Im really starting 2 get fed up with car shops around the place charging the world and giving #### service . Its starting 2 be come a trend i have noticed and many others will have 2.Unless you know the owner of the damn shop, there going 2 makke you pay like you own a money tree. I have encountered it 13times over the last year an a half and i could name shops and im very tempted 2, as 2 warn others . but i wont go that low. The service us paying customers are receving is appauling. is it because we drive old cars and some people dont give a crap about them or is it because we are young and they think they can get away with the stuff they are doing?. For instance here is a list of examples:
Get a radiator 4 a good price from a wreckers, take it 2 get rebuilt and all the works at a shop. pick it up and pay 150bucks. get it in the ute. the ute heats up and gets me wondering. take it 2 another shop a week later. they take the radiator out and say it had never been pulled apart and cleaned, was still completly full of rubbish!!
again another example:
Go 2 tire shop 2 get new tires they put tires that are 2 big on and hang out my guards.drive it up the road and return 2 shop 2 mins late, they say no they will not change unless i pay and come back at a later date!!!!!!
Another example:
Go 2 get a new filter 4 the ute. buy 1. take it home WRONG SIZE!!!take it back and they guys says, ow i thought that was going 2 be the case!!!!
Another example:
My engines was running really bad, decided 2 take it 2 a carby tuning and engine shop. they have a look clean the carby out cause theres a bitta water in the fuel in the carby. they charge me $$$160. i get half way home and it starts carrying on again.pull over and have a look 4 meself. the fuel filter was not replaced like i had mention and was full of crap. the part where the fuel guage reader on the ute mounts in2 the tank in the tray of the ute was all lose and was not sealed. they had washed my ute with water and my tank was half full of water. again, wasnt there problem and they told me 2 get of there property when i went back 2 complain!!
And another example.
Get extractors put on the ute. they change 2 welsh plugs while there at it. forget 2 put colant in the engine. i drive home an warped the head on my old a12. wasnt there fault but cause i had my music on and should have noticed and pulled over. How ridicolous can you get!!!.
Got my cat converter done 2 day an a carbon canister, which i provided , cost 400 hundred bucks. i was quoted 250!!!. the end result wasnt top notch either with my throttle jamming up ????, it was changed around 4 sum un known reason, the canister mounted shocking, and coming lose on the way home. it was mounted rubbing on the engine 4 crying out loud. Im really starting 2 wonder is there anywhere that provides good service now in canberra???, let alone australis. I could provide many more examples of bad service from business but i have made my point. Sorry fella's just had 2 get it of ma chest!!! Im gettin sick an tired of it and am starting 2 wonder, why didnt i under take a mechanics apprenticeship or something in the field
excuse my language aswell