Repair completed....wrong repair.

Heavy Metal Doctor wrote:

Happy Prospector wrote:
Yep, Taking a truck to a tire shop for engine work! It appears that you may have been educated beyond your intelligence.

I was kinda thinking along the same lines -- I never take a vehicle for any diagnosis and repair to a shop that has "tire" or "lube" in their name....you go tehre for tires or and oil change (I don't even trust them to do that right - or at least not to use good parts / oil)

Stories like these make think that the general driving public has little idea what really goes on behind the bay doors of most shops, no matter if it's lawnmower repair, heavy equipment, or anything in between.

Lube and tire places, while they may advertise all sorts of other service / repair, are notorious for being the stepping stone shop for a "learning" technician. Most good tech's move on to shops where they can make more money. Sure, they will have one tech who really does know what he's doing, but when the workload is high, you show up and get the oil-change monkey trying to diagnose a missfire.....

I rarely use the services of a shop since I can do 99% of my own work and the rest is deep diagnostics requiring the really expensive tools. I don't need that often enough to spend the money for more than basic code reader and pressure tester.
This is one area of RV'n that makes me cringe -- a problem on the road and ending up getting hosed due to not knowing if the shop is good or not.

The shop is in Kamloops, BC not Baltimore, MD. There are a whole lot of differences between upper BC and anything stateside. Besides, Gary says he's used this shop in the past and has his own ideas about the quality of their work (maybe not this last time ;)).

Glad to hear the situation is being worked out for ya', Gary. Sometimes we need a comedy of errors to keep us moving at the right speed.