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Originally Posted by legion
Worst shop story:
I was 17. My '85 Plymouth Duster had started to overheat. On the advice of my non-car guy dad (I had no mechanical know-how at the time), I took the car to Pep Boys. They charged me $500 to change the radiator. Pulling out of the parking lot, the car started to overheat. I went in and complained that they had not fixed the problem that I described, and demanded they fix the problem at no charge. I finally left after they threatened to call the police on me. My dad stopped payment on the radiator (it was on his CC), and I took the car to another shop. $40 later I had a new water pump and a car that didn't overheat.
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Man, that should have been obvious.
Unless the impeller or shaft broke, the absence of a missing drive belt was right there.....staring him in the face for hours....
Kinda inspiring to learn about this "mechanical stuff", huh?
