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On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 5:33:58 PM UTC-4, SBH wrote:
On 7/14/2016 8:59 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:


I took a car into a chain tire store to have them look at the brakes. I
was pretty sure I had a stuck caliper or caliper pin, but it was mid-
winter and I didn't feel like checking it myself.

I was standing at the counter talking to the manager when the tech came
out and told me that I needed a new caliper, adding "If you do one, you
should do both." When I asked the tech if it could be just the caliper pin,
not the caliper, he said "You can't replace the pins on that vehicle, you
have to replace the whole caliper."

I stared at him silently for a few seconds, then turned to the manager and
politely asked "Is that true?"

Manager: "Ummm...well...errr...you see..."

It was kind of fun to watch him struggling as he tried to figure out how to
deal with the fact that his tech had just lied to my face.

I saved him the trouble by telling him to find *another tech* to put the
car back together and back it out. I pointed to the tech and told the manager
that I did not want *him* touching the car again.

I watched carefully as a different tech reattached the caliper and put the
wheel back on.


That is one reason why I do my own work on my own car. If I don't have
the tool(s) to diagnose a more complicated issue, I will have a local
shop look at it as I play stupid to the understanding of vehicles.
Though, I can say that local shop is honest and if I don't have the
tool(s) to fix the repair, they get my business.
Interesting that in all this discussion about taking the car to the
tire place, the guy pinching the tires with his fingers, telling him
that the tires are kaput, that there isn't one mention of how much
tread is left on them. Anyone tells me the tires are shot, that's
the first thing I'd ask them, how much tread is left? and/or why
else do they need to be replaced. With less than 10K miles on them,
something would have to be radically wrong for them to be worn out so
soon, but the amount of tread left is the decisive factor, unless
something else is wrong with the tires.

Those tires aren't worn out, they have plenty of tread on them. The employee was talking out his ass trying to get me to buy new tires I didn't need. He didn't even use a tread gage. Those tires are good for another 20,000 miles, easy.

He just wanted to sell new tires and tried lying his ass off, which has probably worked before, but I just bought those tires July 2015.


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