This mechanic is the reason people don't believe mechanics.
I brought my car to him in the summer because my window did not go all the way up; Nissan told me it was the motor that was broken. I told him this but I asked that he check because it was a good idea for him to do a double check of what was wrong, right? The water pump was also broken or something happened to it because it stopped working months earlier. So I asked him to check that out too.
When he calls me to tell me the estimate, he tells me about $750 for everything, which was steep but I was working an extra job this summer for this very reason; to cover my car expenses and finish paying off my car, which I did!
After about a week or maybe two, the window again would no go back up. Needless to say I was very angry because I had already paid for it to be fixed and now I had to bring it in again. I hoped, however, that since he had already worked on the window and he needed to guarantee his job, he wouldn't charge extra for anything he needed to do because it was his job to correct any mistakes or oversights he had made. Wrong. This time, I also found that my AC would not turn off so I asked him to fix that.
He charged me an additional $150-180 because this time he said it was something else related to the window and because I had first told him it was the motor, that's what he fixed. He told me someone had spliced the wire but now it was fixed for a small fee of $150-180. I didn't protest because I just wanted the car fixed. All in all, I ended up paying about $480 the second time I brought my car.
Now it is about a month later and when I turn on my AC it makes a rattling noise and it won't go away. I call him first and he tells me to bring it in. I do, he listens to the rattling, and he said he will "take a look". But he insists that maybe something fell into the vent and that is what is making the noise. I only use my car to go to work and I have a 20 minute commute. I am the only one that drives my car, so I would know if something fell in. I tell him this and she reassures me he will "take a look". He also adds, "The sound is the fan working". To which I respond, "That can't be because it has never ever made that sound once, since I bought my car". Again he says, "Ok, we will take a look".
He calls me later in the day and says, "It's fine, we turned the AC on and it didn't make any noise, I can't do more than because it involves a lot of work and time". So why did he keep my car? I had to pay for a cab to get to work that morning AND to return to pick up my car in the afternoon for nothing.
When I get back to the shop in the afternoon, he gives me the same speech, "Something must have fallen in". I told him that if I heard the noise again I would bring it back.
I got in my car this morning turned on the heater and there was that dreadful noise again. Now I'm highly upset because there is no way I am brining my car back to this DISHONEST mechanic so now I have to find an actual reliable mechanic which is clearly hard to do, and I have to spend more money trying to figure out what the issue is.
As a teacher, it took me sometime to pay off my car, which I did WITH MY SECOND JOB that I also used to pay for the repairs on my car that his mechanic charged me TWICE for.
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