Richter12x2
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I recently had some work done on the GT6, and I'm not sure that what I paid was actually fair. I haven't had much time to spend on it, so I took the car to a British car specialist near me, a pretty famous one, but they nearly doubled the budget I gave them without approval, and I'm pretty sure the volume of work I got wasn't commiserate.
When I picked it up, I paid the extra $2500 over the budget I gave them of $3500, (which they blew past without ever asking for approval), thinking at least the work would be done correctly and I wouldn't have had to mess with it, but I ended up having to redo a lot of the work they did myself. They replaced both rear wheel cylinders, but after leaving a trail of brake fluid through my garage, I discovered that one of the new ones was leaking quite a bit. When I contacted them about it, they said to "top it off and bring it back in" (20 miles through Dallas in a car with questionable brakes to replace a $15 wheel cylinder?).
That made me actually start to look at the work that was done. According to the invoice, the time to replace 2 wheel cylinders, flush the brake lines and flush the clutch lines was 13 hours. That seems ridiculously high to me for a car where the clutch slave cylinder and both front wheels are accessible just by opening the hood. Does that seem like a reasonable amount to anyone else?
Maybe I'm being unrealistic. I'd like to hear other people's opinions.
When I picked it up, I paid the extra $2500 over the budget I gave them of $3500, (which they blew past without ever asking for approval), thinking at least the work would be done correctly and I wouldn't have had to mess with it, but I ended up having to redo a lot of the work they did myself. They replaced both rear wheel cylinders, but after leaving a trail of brake fluid through my garage, I discovered that one of the new ones was leaking quite a bit. When I contacted them about it, they said to "top it off and bring it back in" (20 miles through Dallas in a car with questionable brakes to replace a $15 wheel cylinder?).
That made me actually start to look at the work that was done. According to the invoice, the time to replace 2 wheel cylinders, flush the brake lines and flush the clutch lines was 13 hours. That seems ridiculously high to me for a car where the clutch slave cylinder and both front wheels are accessible just by opening the hood. Does that seem like a reasonable amount to anyone else?
Maybe I'm being unrealistic. I'd like to hear other people's opinions.