I hate Mechanics.
I live in Brisbane, Queensland, and I just got my P's (Rushed the test before the new laws come into play). So, I decided it was time to put my 1987 BMW 535i into a mechanic, so that it could be fixed up for me to start driving myself around ASAP. I bought the car about a year ago, as it only had a few small things wrong with it that the wreckers assured me would cost 'next to nothing' to get on the road again.
So I book my car into a mechanic. Well, firstly it takes them a month to pick my car up, after they said they would on a particular date. A whole month before they've even got it. (The car is unroadworthy as of this stage, so it had to be picked up by a Tradesman with Trade Plates).
So they finally come to get it. They tell me they should have a diagnosis by at least that afternoon. They don't call that afternoon. Or the next. Or for two weeks. I end up ringing them on a Monday two weeks after the pre-made "Diagnosis" date, and they tell me they should know exactly what's wrong with it by that Thursday. Mhmm.
Thursday rolls around, and shock horror - they actually call. They tell me my car needs a new muffler/exhaust (Shock horror - I told them that). They say it needs one new tyre, and the break bushes need to be replaced. All together, they cost it at $800 including Roadworthy. Fine, I say. Whatever. As long as it gets done.
They give me another ETA - the following Monday. Okay, that's cool. I wait. Monday comes. They ring - say it won't be done until Thursday. Also, they have found a problem with a steering arm that will cost another $300, plus another tyre needs to be replaced. I argue the fuck out of them, and they drop the extra $300. I wait, with anger. Thursday comes - I ring them - I ask them if the car is ready to be dropped off at mine. They say "No, I didn't say Thursday, I said at the end of the week". What the fuck? How could somebody blatantly lie about that? Grr. So I wait until Friday. I ring again. "Most probably Monday".
Weekend.
Today is Monday. I have rung them once more. I ask "Is my car ready to be dropped off today?"
The guy I speak to has a really smartarse tone. "No, who told you it would be ready by today? The welder is here today, and it could be finished today, but it might be tomorrow".
I am ultra pissed off at this stage. I have been waiting for months just to get a couple of small jobs done. And I still have not my car back. :burn:
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Have mechanics ever fucked you over like this?
~ Geezer.
I live in Brisbane, Queensland, and I just got my P's (Rushed the test before the new laws come into play). So, I decided it was time to put my 1987 BMW 535i into a mechanic, so that it could be fixed up for me to start driving myself around ASAP. I bought the car about a year ago, as it only had a few small things wrong with it that the wreckers assured me would cost 'next to nothing' to get on the road again.
So I book my car into a mechanic. Well, firstly it takes them a month to pick my car up, after they said they would on a particular date. A whole month before they've even got it. (The car is unroadworthy as of this stage, so it had to be picked up by a Tradesman with Trade Plates).
So they finally come to get it. They tell me they should have a diagnosis by at least that afternoon. They don't call that afternoon. Or the next. Or for two weeks. I end up ringing them on a Monday two weeks after the pre-made "Diagnosis" date, and they tell me they should know exactly what's wrong with it by that Thursday. Mhmm.
Thursday rolls around, and shock horror - they actually call. They tell me my car needs a new muffler/exhaust (Shock horror - I told them that). They say it needs one new tyre, and the break bushes need to be replaced. All together, they cost it at $800 including Roadworthy. Fine, I say. Whatever. As long as it gets done.
They give me another ETA - the following Monday. Okay, that's cool. I wait. Monday comes. They ring - say it won't be done until Thursday. Also, they have found a problem with a steering arm that will cost another $300, plus another tyre needs to be replaced. I argue the fuck out of them, and they drop the extra $300. I wait, with anger. Thursday comes - I ring them - I ask them if the car is ready to be dropped off at mine. They say "No, I didn't say Thursday, I said at the end of the week". What the fuck? How could somebody blatantly lie about that? Grr. So I wait until Friday. I ring again. "Most probably Monday".
Weekend.
Today is Monday. I have rung them once more. I ask "Is my car ready to be dropped off today?"
The guy I speak to has a really smartarse tone. "No, who told you it would be ready by today? The welder is here today, and it could be finished today, but it might be tomorrow".
I am ultra pissed off at this stage. I have been waiting for months just to get a couple of small jobs done. And I still have not my car back. :burn:
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Have mechanics ever fucked you over like this?
~ Geezer.
