[Shotimes] Weiner Auto Mechanics

[Rick Glass]

I took my '94 to a Ford dealer here for a timing belt and water pump
replacement (the pump was leaking), service manager said you don't have to
take the belt off to change the water pump, "we looked it up in the book"
it's 3.5 hours for each, if you want us to do it it will be 7 hours at
$68/hr.  This is one of the 2 SVT dealers we have in Nashville, and they had
to look it up in the book ?
I took it to another shop that a friend owns, his head mechanic raised the
hood, immediately closed it and said "I ain't touchin' it."
I did finally get the work done at Steve Williams Ford in Lawrenceburg, TN.
They did the timing belt, water pump, front crank seal, and an oil change
for $271, had to buy the crank seal from them, I already had the belt and
pump.

Good Luck,

Rick Glass
           Nashville, TN
'99 Silver 38k non-Kirked (for now)
      Flowmaster Original 40's
      3rd cat/resonator removed
      Intake slightly modified, but not Porterized
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hartberger, Jason M. ATAN" <hartbejm@roosevelt.navy.mil>
To: "SHOtimes mailing list (E-mail)" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 7:57 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] Weiner Auto Mechanics


> Does anybody have any experience with having people refuse to work on your
> car because they're scared of them? I went to my base auto shop (a pretty
> good shop, I've had work done with them before) and asked them for a
labour
> estimate on a 100k, and they guy at the counter asked me what the hell a
> 100k was (bad sign), so I told him... he just looked at me and then he
> looked at a fellow mechanic and said "you ever worked on a SHO before?"
The
> other guy said "yup... I never want to work on one again." and then the
guy
> I was talking to said, "We won't take it. I worked on a SHO once, got damn
> near married to it..."
>
> People are scared to work on SHOs? Is this common? Seriously, I've seen
the
> instructions for doing the maintenance, and it doesn't look that hard. I'd
> just do it my own damn self, but I have a base parking lot for a garage
and
> about as much technical skill as Brian Boitano (what *would* he do?)... so
> now I'm searching for some dealers that aren't scared of it... weiners.
>
> ATAN Hartberger, USN
> USS Theodore Roosevelt
>
> 94 red ATX 101K  "I wanted an mtx dammit, but nobody drives one around
> here!"
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