My Rear Diff Went 🤢🧨💥🤮💔 - And How To Proceed?

[Shran]

I wish someone would explain to me how in the world these junkyards even know what they have on stock in the fields. My local Chattanooga U Pick has many thousands of cars. If I go to the Ford section there are often Chevy's and Japanese trucks scattered in. Do they actually know what differentials their 30 Ranger and two dozen F150's have? I doubt it. As you check out they don't even ask which car you took what from. They just go - "oh a differential that's $xxx", and half the time I think they're just making up a price. It's total chaos. The last time I went, I had a rubber trim gasket and they couldn't even be bothered to charge me and when they rang me up for a body part they didn't even notate it. They just came up with a number.

My local pick-n-pull places are like that too. The "Ford section" is all Ford but there's another hidden row of pickups off in a corner and a bunch of Explorers over by the office. It's funny because they always say the same thing - Oh I dunno if we have ANY of those..... as it turns out they usually have several.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

At my local big box hardware stores and smaller places like True Value, the employees all seem pretty sharp.

IME, the latter is true, former is not.