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BYGDAWG3758

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HENRY
Did anyone see 20/20 last night (9-12-14)?
One of the segments was about how honest car repair shops are. The bait car was a 1st gen FX.
It repeats Sat 9-13 on News Channel 8 at 8pm est.
 
BYGDAWG3758 said:
Did anyone see 20/20 last night (9-12-14)?
One of the segments was about how honest car repair shops are. The bait car was a 1st gen FX.
It repeats Sat 9-13 on News Channel 8 at 8pm est.
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Didn't catch it, but I remember a while ago, a news station ran a in depth story about shady quick lube places, which would re-use old oil filters, or charge customers for work they never performed.

Mr. Lube was among the worst offenders. You can google a lot of this information, quite sad really that someone would so blatantly rip someone who trusts them like that. It's much of the reason I am willing to do my own work whenever possible, and whenever I can't I either pay the dealer, or my local trust worthy speed shop. To me its work paying more to make sure everything is done right.
 
My wife is a fan of 20/20, black gen1 06+. She recorded it, guess I can rip it for youtube there's a demand.
 
I know that it is a prank but I died laughing when the phony mechanic told the girl "the headlight fluid is a little low"

[video=youtube;9FefIzya7fw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FefIzya7fw[/video]
 
soonster said:
My wife is a fan of 20/20, black gen1 06+. She recorded it, guess I can rip it for youtube there's a demand.
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Multiple cars then?

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Reminds me of a garage where my previous car was in for oil and brake pad change.
I get a callback:
- We need to change your rotors.
- The rotors?
- Yeah
- Why?
- Well, they're used [they're not]. If we don't change them, they might **fall off**.

Yeah right, they'll fall through the wheels I guess...
 
I hear stories all the time about this. They tell you one thing after another just to take your money very hard to trust somebody these days so sad.
 
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