I hate.. HATE shops.. I had one good shop in town.. Honest mechanics, if you can believe that. They didn't screw around, they got the job done. BUT.. I bought a mitsubishi diamante that promptly (3 days later) broke down. The cam was binding. I took it to the shop, because if you have ever seen a mitsu diamante motor, is mounted sideways, and has an intake that covers the rear valve cover. So you have to pull the intake, and the valve cover, and it is DOHC, so you have to deal with that, all in an area big enough for a baby squirrel. So I was like screw it... I'll let the grease monkeys deal with this. $600 later, I have my car back, driving like a dream.. The next day, it breaks down... I decide to check out the bolts.. see if they actually removed anything.. NOPE.. They put on a new tentioner and timing belt and called it a day... Charged me $600. So I take it back to the shop.. They have it for 4 days. They charge me ANOTHER $600 which I threw a fit about.. But they wouldnt give me my car until I paid. So I paid. On the way out the owner said "drive that car careful!" I knew, right there, that they had fucked me again. Next day, broken down again. I paid a redneck $50 bucks to get it running and sold it off.
Fuck shops.
I do ALL of my own work now.. Those people were my friends and they fucked me that bad. I built their computer network for them, set up their servers, printers, shop computers, office computers, blah blah blah.. (its a BIG shop)... And I discounted everything. And did upkeep for free...
At least I know my stuff is being done right. The only thing I outsource now is machine work.. I just can't afford a machine shop. Oh, and exhaust work.. No tubing bender....
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