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buta4
Jul 14, 2015Explorer
Carrier wrote:
I've owned transport trucks and trailers and have been a heavy duty mechanic for 40 years and like the old saying "never judge a book by its cover" is true for repair shops. Seen ones like this and not always but many times have some really good mechanics or owners. Especially when they let you stay there.
Try that at any in the city!!!
X2!
I needed a new exhaust system in a 2006 Hyundai Sonata. My mechanic looked under the hood. He said new exhaust system is needed at $840 for the part plus other sundry parts at $1,300 inc. labor. Internet searches found system and parts alone for $1,500.
Went to Auto Zone to see about the part. Auto Zone Mgr said to see HIS mechanic for a second opinion. I went to his mechanic's ramshackle shop with a dozen or so cars in the messy overgrown yard.
He put the car on a lift, found the exhaust leak in one of the bellows and repaired it with a new bellows and welded it on.
Cost was $150!
Got me a new mechanic as of that moment.
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