Lester Ewing wrote:
> Lemme see if I got this right...
>
> You are in dire straights on a long rally.
Yup
> It's a holiday weekend..
Yup
> It's late at night...
Not yet
> You have spent several weeks preparing your car (With at least two
> transmission rebuilds IIRC)..
I suck at tranny work, Paul can confirm this.
> Halfway through the rally (More or less) your tranny rebuild craps out
> to 1st and 4th gear knocking you out of the rally..
It sure did.
> You get in touch with a BUSINESS
The first mistake.
> The business owner gives up his sleep..
He did not.
> Provides you with a needed part, better than what you had..
> PLUS an adaptor that he sells for a profit..
Which I am willing to pay for.
> Allows you use of his shop until you are finished..
At a rate of about $100 per hour
> All of which allows you to finish the rally without having to either
> drive back in only two gears (Not much fun but doable) or leave the
> car, fly home, come back another week witha suitable tow vehicle, tow
> the car back to Jersey, then take the 3 trannys that you have to see if
> you can get one good one..
Obviously the cheaper way to go.
> He wants to charge you (My guess here) $ 400 plus the cost of the
> tranny and you're complaining?!
Wrong guess.
> And you spend all of your spare time berating the quality of cheap
> Chinese tools and lamenting the loss of good ol American quality
> workmanship??!!!
It's still a JAP tranny, clutch, and slave.
> Just wanted to be clear before I make a decision regarding Rivergate..
I am a business too. If you needed help in the middle of the night and I
was closed but you knocked on my door. I would help in a heartbeat.
If you needed goods that I sold, I would only charge you for the goods.
I would most likely charge you cost of the goods under that circumstance.
I get called out at 4 am to board up burned out homes. Should I charge
the person in dire straights top dollar? Maybe I should from now on.
But under those circumstances, I charge what ever the material costs and
a few bucks labor. Afterall, it's found money, I was sleeping, not
*working*. If I had to drop what I was doing at *work* things would be
different. But knowing me, probably not.
It seems to be the "American" way. Kick em when their down. HARD!
--
Frank
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