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In the past, I have used the local Chevrolet dealership's chief mechanic to help me through some trying times with various and sundry tasks that I was unsure of performing on my TR6. Like installing all new U-joints for me on my drive train, setting the engine up on their old Sun machine to watch the firing sequence to iron out some electrical issues. I am friends with the owner of the franchise and he would allow me to sneak the 6 into the shop during slow days to have his mechanic perform these tasks off clock. I would "tip" the mechanic handsomely and everybody was happy. They have done all my Chevy mechanical work for years and I have bought about a dozen new vehicles from them over the last 20. The mechanic had to install new brake calipers on my Tahoe tow vehicle (many miles, lotsa braking) recently for lotsa $$$$. I brought it back 2 or 3 times over the last 2 months since the install of the calipers for a strange noise in the right front. Mechanic says he can't hear the noise, it's my imagination. Finally, the noise was so aggravating, I drove it into the shop at lunch break and the shop foreman discovered the right front wheel had two of the lug nuts rolling around inside the hub cap and the other three almost finger tight! Mechanic was out to lunch. The whole shop was abuzz with embarrassment as I had taken several major trips with this situation and was lucky the wheel didn't fall off. I waited a few weeks before I brought the suv back in for another, unrelated problem, confronted the mechanic in a civil manner...and he came unglued at me!! Whoa, I was the one that should have been upset. What's with human nature, why did he come after me??? Guess I've lost another mechanic.
Maybe it's because I bought a Honda for the first time last month. Maybe it's because I told the shop foreman I always wanted to "own a Chevy dealership" after the lug nut incident.
Who knows, it seems I managed to burn another bridge through no fault of my own.
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Maybe it's because I bought a Honda for the first time last month. Maybe it's because I told the shop foreman I always wanted to "own a Chevy dealership" after the lug nut incident.
Who knows, it seems I managed to burn another bridge through no fault of my own.
Bill /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif