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Originally Posted by krazy_texan
thanks Jocko thats what i was thinking i told the guy that i have owned several old chevy's in the past and this is the way that they are plumbed and he tried to argue with me. Now to put the icing on the cake i told the guy to park my truck outside that i would be by after hours to get it due to my schedule and i had plans to pick it up after we got back from dinner so i go to the shop to get it and it is locked up inside the shop which really makes me mad and he is going to get a piece of my mind cause tues-thurs i have school from 8am to 12:30 then i have work from 4:30pm to 3am so i am going to loose about an hour of my sleep tomorrow afternoon going to get my truck i had time to go get it tonight and now i cant just makes me mad as a hornet ugh.
Padresag: I was wanting him to fix it properly originally cause my son rides in that truck and i take his safety more serious than my own and the wheel cylinder i had installed on my truck was a bendix part im not saying it was the most expensive one but it most certainly was not the cheapest. I do understand that he has a job to do but at the same time i have searched up and down through multiple vendors online and off and have not anywhere seen one cost $54. What really urks me though is that i had a few things i wanted to have them do but because the first thing on the list was not doable to thier standards they did not even look at the other things i wanted done. I do agree that brakes are not something to be messed with but i got some help coming over this weekend for the cost of a steak dinner which is way less than the $300 parts and labor that they quoted me.
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I can see both sides and sometimes we do not like to see the other side. you may have owed him a few dollars perhaps for his services, which is why he didn't leave it sitting outside for you to pick up. been there done that. nothing leaves my shop unless it is paid for unless it is a commercial a/c and I know that it will be paid. nothing worse than having to chase someone for $50.00.
there are a lot of places now that charges $100.00 or so for diagnostic charges which I see as a ripoff for a visual check and est though not if they hook up their machines and do a check that way as it does take time
more than likely a lack of communications of what each other expected of each other. $300.00 is alot of money sometimes but it doesn't go very far anymore. that is just 4 hours labour in my shop and I feel that, that is low now.
I think that older vehicles are a pita for most shops now as they know that they cannot really make any money on them as to many things cause misery for them.sometimes to fix one thing you have to repair a couple of other things along the way that you can't really charge for as you have quoted and you try and be fair, but that brake line twists off and this is stripped but was gunny sacked together and so you end up fixing that but you can't charge for it or you will be a sob and a rip off. they are a no win situation.
I think that the drum/drum m/c has some sort of relief valve or whatever that the other doesn't have at the outlet port. I know that there is something there just can't remember.
I would check that w/c for what is wrong or take it back if it is weeping. easy enough though to just take it apart and seif perhaps it just needs a hone run through it. maybe it sat on the shelf to long and a little rust or a frozen rubber
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