What’s Your Worst Mechanic Rip-Off Story?

I’m keen to guess that every one of us, no matter mechanical talent or inclination, have visited a mechanic in some unspecified time in the future. You could be probably the most astute DIY wrencher on the planet, however typically a job just requires instruments, time, or persistence that you just don’t have. However everytime you go to a restore store, you run the identical normal danger: Getting fully ripped off.

That’s the topic of in the present day’s query, the instances you’ve been ripped off by a mechanic or seller who “mounted” your automotive. Whether or not they charged you for providers not rendered, or just made mountains out of molehills to try to con you into shelling out extra parts-and-labor cash, it’s one thing we’ve all skilled. Inform us your story.

My subject with mechanics is that I all the time do the heavy lifting to tear myself off. On my outdated FR-S, I managed to ring up an almost four-thousand-dollar restore invoice from a neighborhood race store, all to repair the automotive’s behavior of grinding gears within the Rochester chilly. Nicely, the carbon transmission synchros had been meant to repair the grinding, as was the stiffened transmission mount, however at that time you might as nicely agency up the engine mounts too. And if you happen to’re that deep right into a Subaru, why not throw spark plugs at it? You see the place that is going.

The “whereas we’re in there, may as nicely” method has price me 1000’s at numerous outlets. Mechanics that know me nicely even use it to their benefit, tossing within the phrase to suggest I’d need to spend for a similar labor once more down the road if I forego a repair now. I’m a simple mark, actually.

My largest mechanic rip-off was taking the “whereas we’re in there” method to transmission rebuilds.What was yours? Depart your story within the feedback beneath, and we’ll decide the very best solutions tomorrow afternoon.