"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
tim... wrote:
mine just indicated it was a choice of sensors

the garage said, we can guess and if we guess right first time it will
cost
you 80 quid

if we guess right last time, it will be 5-600

That is the problem. Mechanics now rely on being told what to replace -
rather than working it out themselves.

Plenty of them don’t. Mate of mine who is a mechanic
makes decent money buying Mercs off ebay, fixing the
fault that others decided was to risky to try fixing cost
wise and selling them for twice what he paid for the
car and the replacement parts. And the locals get him
to do the harder stuff too.