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From: bae@fisher.UUCP (Shiva the Destroyer)
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Subject: Re: what do you do if....
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 04:46:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 04:46:28 1985
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> a service center says something is broken when it really isn't?
> 
> Yesterday, I took my car to Firestone for an oil change and
> to have the tires rotated (remove snow tires, etc).  As I
> was leaving, I noticed that the mechanic had penned in at
> the top, "FT struts (leak)".  I immediately went back in and
> asked him what the problem was.  He said the front struts of
> my 11 month old car were leaking.  We dicussed price and what
> would happen if I ignored the problem ($139.00, and the ride
> would get mushy).  

I had the same sort of thing happen to me this last summer.  I 
went in to purchase a new set of tires and to have them installed.
While the car was on the lift, the "nice man" showed me how the
rear shocks on my newly-purchased '68 Datsun were gone (they were),
and the front struts were leaking.  The leak was just some machine oil
which had been dribbled onto the struts.  Fortunately, having some amount
of mechanical competance, I told the guy that he was BS'ing me, ran across the
street to the parts store, and bought a pair of Koni's to have the "nice
man" install in place of my rear shocks, and told him that I'd leave 
the front struts as they were, saving the $180 he had quoted me.  Urrr.....

-- 
                    Brian A. Ehrmantraut

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