Re: Attack of the Monkey Lads (tm)

[Steve Mills <smills@lineage.com>]

>Four hundred dollars for a new half-shaft, strut and wheel bearing??
>
>Do you have their address?
>
>I think 'totally bogus' is an understatement.  I couldn't buy the PARTS
>for that!
>
>I wonder what they would have done for $400.

	I had a very good mechanic (and friend) check out a car that had
supposedly had the transmission completely rebuilt. The owner was charged
~$1500, and as far as we could tell, all the crooked shop did was clean and
paint the bad transmission with it still in the car- overspray all over the
undercarriage was a hint. When the owner brought it back and complained,
they told him that it wasn't the transmission this time, it was the rear
end- another $800 to fix.

	My friend the mechanic used to call this type of "wrenching" an SMS job-
clean it, paint it, and park it out under the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
for a couple days....

	Steve