yeah - similar experience here. I put one of my old beater cars back on the road - I decided not to fix an exhaust leak myself, I usually never pay to have work done, but it was too cold for me to bother with it.
They kept the car overnight "going through it".
I kept telling them I didn't want to spend any money on it, I just wanted the exhaust work done.
Got a loooong list of recommended fixes - totalling over $3000 for this $1000 car.
Told them no thanks, JUST DO THE EXHAUST.
If they want to waste their time like that - nothing I can do about it. But they kept pressuring me - which put me in an uncomfortable spot where I had to get a little rude about it.
JUST DO TH E)#(*$#$ exhaust work, that's ALL I want.
The real downside is, I finally got the car home - they did a good job with the exhaust - I looked at their detailed list of recommendations, and got a false sense of security that they checked over everything pretty well - it was such a detailed list of obscure things...
I drove the car a while - fixing items I thought were important - I never thought to check the transmission fluid.
The transmission started slipping one day - and progressively got worse over a 10 mile trip. Midway I checked the fluid - it was like black sand.
I don't think that just happened in 5 miles of light driving.
Not that I think they're at fault for it - but you'd think they'd have caught THAT instead of all the minor insignificant parts they checked out. By the crud on the trans dipstick cap, I could tell they never pulled it out.
Glad I didn't pay the 3 grand, just to have the transmission die!
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