Yo Adrian!
I will repeat me previous message. You don't want to use a shop that doesn't
have any desire to
work on your car. You can apply that logic to any other work, as well:
carpenters, Novell techs,
whatever.
Jay Fishbein, CT
AN-5
HAN-6
Innocenti-S
On 01/29/99 08:29:56 you wrote:
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>I do agree with you, but just for the record this is a shop that has always
>bragged about working on these types of cars, which is why I mentioned the
>Lotus
>Europa (an old LBC) I had seen in there. He had to think about it (a very
>audible pause) before he said no and then he came up with his excuse. He was
>just an a*rse, either that, or just not very tactful.
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>adrian
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>"Steve,Laurie & Eric Day" wrote:
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>> Adrian told us about the grouchy trans mechanic,since my job puts me in
>> daily contact with repair shops, perhaps this view might help.
>> Repairing todays computer controlled cars is a lot different than repairing
>> our LBC`s. Not easier, but different to be sure. It requires a different
>> investment in time , equiptment and technitions to work on the cars of the
>> 90`s. We don`t have computors, air bags, antilock brakes or ride sensors,
>> they don`t have laycock overdrives, king pins, knee action shocks or tach
>> drive generators.
>> The shop you ran into has obviously chosen the cars of the 90`s, and put
>> their time and money in that direction. He`s laid out the cash for the
>> specialized tools and testers, hired and trained his tech`s and moved away
>> from LBC`s. He may not even know what a gudeon pin or spigot bush is
>> anymore, if he did before.
>> With this in mind, he knows it would be unprofitable for him, and unfair to
>> you to work on your trans. and bill you for the time it would take his tech
>> to do an unfamiliar job, with questionable results, AND have to give you a
>> warranty, when you could get the job done quicker, (less $ ) and better in a
>> shop that specialized in LBC`s.
>> He certainly should`ve done a better job informing you, but maybe this might
>> be one explanation.
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>fowl. When there was no fowl we
>ate crawdads. When there were no
>crawdads we ate sand."
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