Can you trust your mechanic?

KKmama
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 03:19:39 +0000

I trust mine. He was more sad than I was when my '92 Escort finally had to be replaced. Sometimes he gives us huge breaks on labor costs when we have a run on repairs with our two elderly cars.

But I don’t trust many mechanics. Way back when I was in grad school my '81 Escort needed a few repairs and I figured I’d take it to a mechanic near where I was attending school three days overnight instead of at home where I needed the car for work. He took me on a test drive and started “diagnosing” several problems that I knew the car did not have - figured I was a 22 year old female so he could trick me. He was pretty upset when I told him I KNEW what was causing the engine noise and that it definitely wasn’t what he claimed it to be