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Re: What's the Worst Line You've Heard from a Mechanic? Posted by RS [Email] (#15) [Profile/Gallery] (more from RS) on Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:56:09 In Reply to: What's the Worst Line You've Heard from a Mechanic?, Roger (NAWC), Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:23:15 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
The rear brake cylinder on our Citation blew out (this was quite a few years ago) and my wife just barely got it to the Midas place. The mechanic pulled the rear drum and gave her an estimate of something like $800 to replace *everything* in the braking system. He also generously offered to take it off our hands for $300.
After I got it home and calmed my panicked wife, I bought a rear cylinder and new shoes for $50 and put the whole thing back together. We ran it for another year-and-a-half until the pressurized line from the fuel pump finally rusted through.
The good thing about Midas and their free inspections is that they actually got the rear drum off - it had been rusted on pretty solidly and I couldn't have gotten it off myself.
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