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So I have not been working in a shop since December. For the most part I am enjoying being out of the shop, but I am running into an issue now that I have to rely on someone else for my state safety inspections. Let me start with the fact that I moved pretty far from where I was working, so while taking stuff there is not impossible, it isn't highly practical either.
There is a small shop here in town that I have been going to for SI. It is a family owned business, and I went to school with the daughter who now basically runs the shop, which is one of the reasons I have been going there.
When I had my truck in back in May they hit me for one legitimate failure, one that was a grey area, and one that would that anyone who was really paying attention would have known was a bad call. The last one being a "leaking" brake line. It was wet at a fitting I had opened up a few weeks before and never cleaned up. The brakes didn't fade, and looking at it while holding them would have shown it doesn't leak.
Anyway, today I took in my BII. I got hit for five things.
1) No backup lights
2) Exhaust leak at passenger side manifold collector
3) A few lights on my visor are out
4) Headlight aim on passenger side
5) Front brake hoses.
1) I brought it home and looked it over. Now the backup lights were working when I left home, and my wife says they were working when I backed into the parking spot at the garage. They work now when I have it at home too.
2) The exhaust was leaking a few weeks ago, I fixed it, drove it, no leak, can't feel it, can't hear it all the way to the garage. Got it home, it is leaking just as bad as it was before I fixed it.
3) The visor lights are considered accessories since they aren't factory and thus aren't even an inspection item in PA.
4) I pulled it up to my aiming board tonight. Aside from the RH (the side they said is out) being a bit dim they are aimed more or less correctly. I am actually amazed at how good they are since the front end is pretty beat up.
5) I'll give them that one. At least the LH one has a crack in the rubber. The RH one feels like it might, but I can't see the spot, I can only feel it with the wheel on.
Now once of the reasons I got out of wrenching is that I have developed a stress-related mental disorder and one of the biggest symptoms is paranoia. It seems like recently any time something doesn't go my way I jump to the assumption that the guy on the other end is out to get me. I'm not sure if I am doing that this time or not, but the reverse light thing, at least, seems to boil down to either he is too stupid to actually get it in reverse and have the key on, or he really thinks I am dumb enough to pay them to fix it and no look into it myself, after telling him I'm not paying him to do any work. Either way to me that means he doesn't need my business.
Opinions please.
There is a small shop here in town that I have been going to for SI. It is a family owned business, and I went to school with the daughter who now basically runs the shop, which is one of the reasons I have been going there.
When I had my truck in back in May they hit me for one legitimate failure, one that was a grey area, and one that would that anyone who was really paying attention would have known was a bad call. The last one being a "leaking" brake line. It was wet at a fitting I had opened up a few weeks before and never cleaned up. The brakes didn't fade, and looking at it while holding them would have shown it doesn't leak.
Anyway, today I took in my BII. I got hit for five things.
1) No backup lights
2) Exhaust leak at passenger side manifold collector
3) A few lights on my visor are out
4) Headlight aim on passenger side
5) Front brake hoses.
1) I brought it home and looked it over. Now the backup lights were working when I left home, and my wife says they were working when I backed into the parking spot at the garage. They work now when I have it at home too.
2) The exhaust was leaking a few weeks ago, I fixed it, drove it, no leak, can't feel it, can't hear it all the way to the garage. Got it home, it is leaking just as bad as it was before I fixed it.
3) The visor lights are considered accessories since they aren't factory and thus aren't even an inspection item in PA.
4) I pulled it up to my aiming board tonight. Aside from the RH (the side they said is out) being a bit dim they are aimed more or less correctly. I am actually amazed at how good they are since the front end is pretty beat up.
5) I'll give them that one. At least the LH one has a crack in the rubber. The RH one feels like it might, but I can't see the spot, I can only feel it with the wheel on.
Now once of the reasons I got out of wrenching is that I have developed a stress-related mental disorder and one of the biggest symptoms is paranoia. It seems like recently any time something doesn't go my way I jump to the assumption that the guy on the other end is out to get me. I'm not sure if I am doing that this time or not, but the reverse light thing, at least, seems to boil down to either he is too stupid to actually get it in reverse and have the key on, or he really thinks I am dumb enough to pay them to fix it and no look into it myself, after telling him I'm not paying him to do any work. Either way to me that means he doesn't need my business.
Opinions please.