Re: My horror story for the day (Part Deux)

[Eric L Ellis <elf16v@juno.com>]

And the moral of this story...It's good to be your own mechanic.

Eric
Good, bad...I'm the guy with the gun.


On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:04:36 -0400 "Duffy Penski" <mpcd@mediaone.net>
writes:
> Well as I already told a few of you who were nice enough to help me 
> out with
> some parts, I was prepared to pay the $300-400 to my mechanic to fix 
> up my
> busted pressure plate, since I need the car back soon. Well my 
> mechanic's
> little helper guy (i dont know what happened to my mechanic, he must 
> be
> sick) calls me and tells me its going to need a whole new clutch 
> disc (which
> i just had replaced 15k ago with a nice new sachs), pressure plate, 
> etc. So
> I tell him to go ahead and he warns me its going to be about 500
> bucks...well I'm already pissed enough but I tell him to go ahead. 
> So I call
> him up today (my mechanic himself is still nowhere in sight, so I 
> have to
> talk to helper guy) to ask whats going on and he says "welp we're 
> putting it
> back together now" and I'm like "goood....." and he's like but 
> there's some
> more bad news.."we had to put in a new flywheel which was another 
> $130 just
> for the part" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> So now I'm looking at $700+ and I'm making about $200/wk at my job.
> 
> Sorry I had to vent somehow,
> 
> Duffy
> 
> 86 8v (its such a love/hate relationship its ridiculous)
> 
> 
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