My father-in-law's 85 year old girlfriend (yeah I know!) recently took her
pristine 4 year old Buick Regal with 30K miles into the local Buick dealer
for an oil change. They supposedly looked her car over while changing the
oil and gave her a list of stuff that "had to be done to make the car safe".
The list included new ball joints, idler arm, pitman arm, brake rotors,
bearings, etc. The estimated cost was over $1,000. The slimebags scared
the crap out of her. There is nothing wrong with her car.
They're everywhere.
Rick
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From <DLancer7676 at cs.com>
To: <midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:27 PM
Subject: Shysters
> My son called me a couple of weeks ago and told me that the "Check Engine"
> light was on on his Saturn. I told him to take the car to Advance Auto or
Auto
> Zone and they would plug in their OBD unit and get a read out as to what
was
> wrong. He said there was a Pep Boys near where he worked. I told him I
> wasn't sure that they did that but he could check.
>
> Well he showed up here with a handwritten list from Pep Boys with about
$800
> worth of work that they said he needed. That was AFTER charging the boy,
who
> makes low wages working part-time at a grocery store, $80 TO DO THE DAMNED
> TEST!
>
> I looked over the list and they had "Spark Plug Wires" on it--that
signaled
> to me that it was a scam because it has been just a bit under a year yet
that
> I replaced the spark plug wires with brand new ones. The list was nothing
> but a scam to suck the boy in and steal him blind. I am sure something on
the
> list may have been a valid problem. One thing that was suspicious was
that
> they didn't provide a printed list, but a hand-jotted one on a piece of
scrap
> paper. I would think that for $80 they would have a print-out.
>
> I had no idea Pep Boys was a flim-flam joint. I urge all listers to
follow
> my lead and stick with known, helpful, service-oriented businesses.
>
> Oh--I pulled his plugs, cleaned and gapped them, and the light has gone
out.
> He DOES need new plugs and we will do that, but What are we saving? $785?
>
>
> What scumbags. 8^)
>
> --David C.
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