On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:42:48 -0500, "cowabunga dude"
wrote:

Last summer I got four tires put on, less than 10,000 miles on them. Right rear tire has slow leak. Took it to discount tire, not where I got the tires, didn't want to drive 100 miles to get flat fixed.

Man said he needed to do safety inspection. He checked tires, mileage, and came in telling me I need new tires and he can fix me right up. The price he quoted was lower than what I spent last summer, but I had to keep insisting, I don't need new tires, I just got these last summer. It seemed like he was about to put on new tires whether I wanted them or not. I didn't even want a price quote.

Finally he gave up.

I'm glad you resisted. Some would have caved.

It's crazy the way he was trying to push me to buy new tires when I don't need any and don't want any.

I know he's probably been trained that way, but I don't like it.

Money, money, money, that's all they care about. Customer service comes in fifth.

Years ago I went to a transmission place because I thought they would
read my transmission codes for free, and indeed they said they would,
but it ended up costing me my car.

The day it was clear weather but the guy couldn't find the connector,
so I said I'd find it and come back.

I came back when it was raining, so they put it in a bay, and I didn't
go in. (I had stood next to the car when it was outside.) I kept
looking in the bay through the window in the door from the waiting
room, and then the car was gone!!! They'd taken it for a test drive,
in the rain, without asking me. -- I complained about that later, to
the owner's son.

Wrote me up all kinds of things that they said were wrong with it. I
did need a control arm bushing, iirc, which I did myself, and they
said I needed two motor mounts.

I bought the mounts and took out the right one, but the replacement
woudn't fit. So I put the original back. I tried to take out the
front one and scratched the radiator in the process. I bought a new
radiator but I couldn't get the old one out. I stopped the leak with
stop leaks, and two years later the car overheated and I blew the
engine. It wounldn't have happened if I hadn't scratched a leak in
the radiator.

And I eventually realized I didn't need the motor mounts at all. It
was just a scam.

Oh, yeah, they couldn't find any codes, but later I paid a better
transimission place and they found one, related to my thumping when
decelerating from 60 to 59 and from 6 to 5. But it was almost stupid
of me to check because the repair was almost certain to be more than
it was worth to me, and indeed it was. But a year later the noise
went away and stayed away. The only time a mechanical thing ever
fixed itself IME.

Well, except the noise 5 seconds after I slam my front door. That
went away after 2 years and 200 times.