John A. said: (quoted from post at 07:25:56 05/31/08) Steven, The car has since been shipped to salvage, and is no longer a whole car by now! This happened back last fall.
Later,
John A.
Thanks for the response... just sounds fishy to me as I've worked on some Ford cars from that time frame and replaced MAF, four separate oxygen sensors, etc. and didn't have near $1000 in parts. Of course labor these days usually costs more than the parts... I suppose it is believable if the shop rate was a little high and it needed quite a bit of diagnostic work and repair.
I got shafted by a repair shop once in my life, and it will never happen again. I buy the tools I need to repair my vehicles (usually cheaper than the labor charge would have been) and do it myself... "If you want something done right, do it yourself."
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