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Originally Posted by DAVES
Different strokes for different folks. Finding something else when you are in for an oil change. When they have your car on the lift for an oil change they can see things we many not be aware of. For me that is good and proper service. Trust? If, and some do,
a mechanic damages stuff so they can charge you to repair, that is of course criminal.
When, to do stuff is often a matter of opinion. Many cars come with lifetime transmission fluid. What does that mean? You choose to follow their advice and you need a new transmission. The fluid did last the life of the transmission. Others will say if you change the fluid it will cause the transmission to fail. I had mine changed. It is fine. Was it a waste of money? I will never know or be able to prove it one way of the other.
Was it even done? I put paint or nail polish on the head of a screw or bolt that needs to be removed to do a job. It is then easy to know that the job was done. An oil change.
I check that the oil filter that I out nail polish on is gone and that the oil is clean and up to the proper mark on the dipstick. Not to me but I recall a friend had his engine seize
because the guy who changed his oil put the wrong filter on and the oil leaked out on a highway trip. ???? Mal practice AUTO?????
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My husband has a 16-yr-old Dodge Magnum Hemi. For the last TEN years Bill Bryant has wanted to change a computer module to the tune of $1200. Why, we don't really know, but have been told it's not a safety issue, and the car continues to work fine. I think it's just on their list of maintenance items to do at Year So-and-So.
After bill Bryant installed a new a/c on this car and it failed after a year, three Dodge dealers in three big cities, including Bill Bryant, couldn't figure out what was wrong. They ran their computer tests and came up with nothing.
Bobby at Accu-Tech actually crawled all over the problem physically until he found the problem and fixed it. The sensor had been installed in the wrong place, causing the a/c to turn itself off. The dealers never actually looked at the a/c, just ran their modules. $145 to Bobby instead of another new a/c from Bill Bryant.
Your results may vary, but we have been using Bobby for everything we need for our cars and are very happy with his work.