From: mjf@gagme.chi.il.us (Michael J. Frankel)
Subject: Re: I think SEARS AUTO. is trying to rip me off !!
Originator: mjf@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:51:43 GMT

In article <mccalley.712436681@lead16> mccalley@rtsg.mot.com (Phil McCalley) writes:
>jstein@tellab1.tellabs.com (Jeff Steinhauer) writes:
>
>A good tip for almost any kind of car service is to ask for the 
>old parts up front before they even look at the car to estimate it.
>At least then, when they are going to rip you off, they have to 
>find a car like yours that actually has the problem parts they 
>say your car has.
>
>There is a great deal that can slip past this method, but for brakes,
>it should work fairly well.  If they refuse, get ornery, and possibly
>leave.  It also helps to make sure you have everyone's name... Better
>still if you ask them directly, because then they know you have it.
>
>Mechanics...Hmmph...I could say enough to get me in trouble.  I never
>documented and photographed my car's parts to have backup for my
>suspicions, but funny how more things tend to go wrong the more you
>visit your friendly mechanic.  How did that get loose?  
>
>>I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I went to SEARS AUTOMOTIVE to have them do my
>>front brakes, I had already purchased the pads and they would need 1
>>new rotor and to re-mill the other. The price he gave me was ~27.00
>>for the service, ~25.00 for the rotor and ~15.00 for milling the
>>other.
>
>>The next day they called my wife(I don't know why they called her,
>>her number was only listed if they couldn't get a hold of me, oh by
>>the way I have voice mail and no messages were left for me). They
>>told her the car, an 84 Cutlass Cierra which I paid $500 for, needed
>>both calipers replaced because they were seized and wouldn't
>>work on the car if they didn't do the back brakes also. The cost....
>
>>			$$$$$$$$ 500.00 $$$$$$$$
>
>>I think they're trying to pull a big one on us. Needless to say I
>>don't understand why they called my wife instead of me. I thought
>>with all the hype about them being so deceitful I would be o.k.
>>Guess not!!
>
>>Just when you thought it was safe to go back to SEARS AUTOMOTIVE !!!
>-- 
>....................................................... Phil McCalley






Attention Honda owners:

I have been taking my vehicle to a place called

	    The Honda Clinic, Inc.
	    4014 Montrose       (Montrose & Elston)
	    Chicago, Il 60641
	    (312)685-5453

***ATTENTION: THEY RECENTLY MOVED, BUT THEIR PHONE NUMBER IS THE SAME ***



It is owned and operated by a gentleman named Bob Murata.

So, what's my point?  Just this: Their service is excellent, their
prices are extremely reasonable, and they know what the hell they
are doing.  Bob answers all my questions with a personable soft-spoken
intellegence and with extreme patience to all my *dumb* questions.
Quite refreshing indeed!

They, unfortunately are not authorized to do warranty repairs (yet).
However, they do maintenance required by the warranty.  As well as
non-warranty repairs.  (And they'll tell you when to take it to
the dealer for warranty service.)  If you have an extended service
contract that is worth the paper its written on, most
probably they can do the work under that contract.

This place is, in a word, Quality.


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  After when they disentwine                 Mike Frankel
  You from me and  yours from mine,          mjf@gagme.chi.il.us
  Neither can be certain who                        or
  Was that I whose mine was you.             fjm@csc3b.depaul.edu
  To the act again they go
  More completely not to know.
	       -Robert Graves

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And the rain is brain-colored.
And the thunder sounds like something remembering nothing.

                          -Stan Rice

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