How much do you trust car repair shops?
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BmoreGorilla
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BmoreGorilla
Veteran
I have one shop I go to and only deal with them. I never go to the dealership tho
I been going to this particular shop for 2 years and I never had any out of the ordinary repairs....
Oil changes
Brakes
And that's it
took a long drive upstate yesterday and realized i need a brake job. my shyt is fine in the city but whenever i hit the brakes @ 60mph + my shyt would shake side to side.
all the overtime i worked this month about to go into this shyt if i cant find a good mechanic i can trust by friday
all the overtime i worked this month about to go into this shyt if i cant find a good mechanic i can trust by friday
Groanman
Superstar
I speak from experience.If we had more fathers in the Black community, brehs would know something about cars and wouldn't get raped by mechanics.
Brehs are literally out here clueless, hapless and helpless like when it comes to cars.
My car was fukking up. Engine light on and everything.
My shade tree mechanic homeboy "guessed" everything he thought was wrong with my car.
And that shyt cost me a lot of money.
Wasted money.
Unnecessary parts.
Wasted time.
I was standing on line in autozone ready to order another guessed part when I saw the scanner on the shelf.
I asked the cashier about it.....and the rest is history.
My car hesitated to start.
Mechanic told me that it was a switch in the steering column that needed to be replaced.
I plugged in the scanner and it said it was most likely a relay.
The switched would've cost me like $80-$90.
The fuse was only $13.
I replaced it myself and the car was fine after that.
Groanman
Superstar
Don't do it, NGA!!!!!!
Look at this video instead. Then bring your ass to the parts store.
i wish i knew that a few years ago.
spent $600 in guesswork electrical parts for my 96 deville
my mechanic couldnt fix the car and i couldnt get my money back for the parts.
i ended up having to sell that shyt for $1000 because it wasnt running after i spent $2700 buying it and another $600 fixing little shyt up here and there.
Groanman
Superstar
***DISCLAIMER***
I am not a mechanic.
I know nothing about engines and transmissions and shyt.
I'm just posting shyt that worked for me. My experiences. My time dealing with MY CAR.
I am not a mechanic.
I know nothing about engines and transmissions and shyt.
I'm just posting shyt that worked for me. My experiences. My time dealing with MY CAR.
Groanman
Superstar
And the fukked up part about it all was that the nga swore up and down that his theories about my car were correct. Time after time. I felt like an a$$hole every time he installed a new part and my car was still fukked up.
He offered no apologies. No nothing.
BmoreGorilla
Veteran
They always give it to me straight. They'll tell me when something needs to be done asap for if I can hold off on it. Any mechanic that tells me I can hold off on something is trustworthy in my book
Whats crazy is, men will put more trust in their barber than they do in a good mechanic.
Anything my mechanics tell me, I check and double check myself. When my throttle body was messed up back in February and I had to pay $800 in labor and repairs, I went online to verify the cost of the part and everything.
And I'm a woman
but i'm not letting a mechanic get over on me by exaggerating the issue to fluff their pockets too.
Sad that a lot of men will rely on the next to handle simple repairs all because they don't have the knowledge and will to learn so they won't get financially raped.
Anything my mechanics tell me, I check and double check myself. When my throttle body was messed up back in February and I had to pay $800 in labor and repairs, I went online to verify the cost of the part and everything.
And I'm a woman
but i'm not letting a mechanic get over on me by exaggerating the issue to fluff their pockets too. Sad that a lot of men will rely on the next to handle simple repairs all because they don't have the knowledge and will to learn so they won't get financially raped.