rev up your engines today I'm gonna show you how not to be ripped off at repair
shops and especially at chained repair shops this vehicles are perfectly gone
2003 toyota 4runner yeah it has a couple hundred thousand miles on it still
running strong but customer made the mistake of going to one of these shops
and what did they decide that you need as you can see right here eighteen
hundred and ninety dollars worth of work on a vehicle that's running perfectly
fine and what really gets me out of that makes me furious is they try to sell her
four tires the five hundred fifty six bucks is enough for four tires but what
really irked me was on top of that they wanted a hundred and eighty six dollars
and ninety nine cents and give a warranty it makes you pay extra for the
warranty now a mechanic we put tires on cars we saw the customer of the tire we
installed them free he balances them free you have to pay extra for a
warranty on a brand new tire basically just ripping you off charging for all
kinds of stuff that it really shouldn't be but hey it's a change
I thought chains are they're gonna guide you as much as I can if that isn't bad
enough check this up as you can see here it doesn't even need tires they got tons
of tread and the right front tons of tread
too all right so all four tires have tons of tread I asked the customer that
are you having problems you get flats you said no I check them every once in
a while and they're full I don't say hadn't yesterday not leaking I just
trying to sell her a bill of goods bad nothing charge all that money just sell
them to you and 187 dollars to put them on a balance them but she doesn't even need
tires a customer years ago one of my customers was a bookkeeper for the guy
he was a millionaire and I was working on his Volvo
she introduced me to evolved I had twenty five thousand miles and a guy had
it ready paid for three sets of tires they saw him coming and told him oh these Volvo's
they're all-wheel drive and they're real powerful it's time to put new tires on
they sold him on three sets of tires and it probably didn't need any of them changed
whatsoever and it's your period of time buddy paid for him told him he needed it
let him put it on now he was a million all right lots of money to spend it wasn't
like they guy was starving but that's crooked and I see that all the time with these
chains that are trying to sell her more stuff under the hood they climb to near
the power steering pump well it's got over 200,000 miles sure it's got a
little bit of grease on it but I asked her is it leaking flawed you have to add
fluid she said no I said doesn't make any noises when you turn no I said does
it steer good does it bind it to be hard to turn and then loosen up she says no
it's fine all the time it's I can always watch it's bad enough that they're
trying to sell her power steering pump the hoses that she doesn't need they
were also including a $200 part for a metal hose on its system the metal hoses
never go bad yeah it's got a little seepage on it you can tighten the clamps
up but the hoses themselves I've never seen one go bad the metal hose yeah the
rubber hoses go bad to rubber and they rot they can leak a little bit but the
solid metal one they don't go bad at all they were just trying to sell her the
farm eighteen hundred and ninety dollars and
five cents but if you look right here six-month promotional finance is
available don't give you this giant bill for stuff you don't even have done but
got finance it for you so you have to pay all at once no I have this happen to
my next-door neighbour years ago I'd work on a car she didn't have much money
and she had a honda and she needed a brake job I'll take it back to brake check because
they have a lifetime guarantee on their brake pads I told her this was years ago
when things were cheaper now they're all brake job is gonna cost her about 65
bucks from the entire job for me but she thought oh well they gave me a lifetime
guarantee on the brake pads so I'll take it to them and they'll put them on for
free hardy-har-har she getting back here she showed me the
bill they hit her for like six hundred and ninety five dollars and this was
years ago and that was a lot of money and they sold are all kinds of stuff but
they gave her the brake pads free they told her that everything was
leaking had to replace all these parts so I said I'd again have you been adding
brake fluid she said no and it was always full the light never came out for
being low it was no kind of serious leak or anything they just saw our common and
the same thing this particular one they gave her a credit card for that company
it's a chain so they charged on her new credit card that
I gave her cuz she had good credit where Scotty was gonna charge her like $65 to
fix it so her three brake pads really huh they weren't so free we're they in
this case it's a 17 year old 4runner with over 200,000 miles on things are
gonna be dirty you'll get a little bit of seepage here and there when you look
under this car there's nothing dripping under there who
cares about a little seepage Oh cars are gonna get dirty under the hood
you're gonna get greasy when they're that old but don't let people sucker you
into buying all this stuff that you really don't need and a solid vehicle
like this I've seen these things with half a million miles it's got two
hundred thousand miles most of the parts on this thing are still totally reliable
yeah they're a little bit worn there's no arguing that but they don't need to
be replaced especially in this case I gauge there's at least 85% of the tread
left it's got tons of try to hide it now the rest of the vehicle it's got two hundred
thousand-plus miles on it but it still runs really good you don't really care
about age things on this big headlamps there they are they're all faded because
the plastic fades away over time but if you can see at night good enough with
the lights on there's enough white gone through me you can drive who cares you
can always do polishing I've got videos on how to polish them you can even cause
you with toothpaste if you want any kind of mild abrasive polish your ability to
buy new ones they'll still work as long as they're not totally faded over an
opaque where you can't see at night they're perfectly fine you don't need to
buy new ones for a small fortune detector radiator on a salt thing it's
the original one it's plastic and yeah it's old but I'm not gonna try to sell
somebody a radiator well it's not losing coolant and it's not dripping anywhere
you look at the valve cover gaskets you can see there's a little bit of oil
leaking out of there that's darker there but no big deal look it's not even
making it to the exhaust manifold and smoldering it's smelly now dishonest
mechanic can sell you all kinds of stuff on an old car that's why I make these
videos to warn you to stay away from those kind of people to learn a little
bit about your car there's things you live with
that don't make any big deal but they're always gonna try to sell you stuff on
safety they'll say that's not safe you gotta fix yard now that's not safe last
year at a cost more than old one like destined somebody saw him throw it's in
shock absorber sort of thing all way around more than a thousand dollars he
brought it to me cuz he said he was worried about the ride so I got it
it didn't ride all that well so I looked and they were the cheapest chinese-made
discount strut you could possibly buy he got charged for the top-of-the-line Toyota
ones but what he actually got what he's cheap Chinese knockoff which actually
rolled worse than the old shocks they have 150,000 miles on them happen all
the time with dishonest places especially with the chain repair shops
because the managers there always get a percentage of what sold out the door so
the more that's sold the higher percentage they get for their cut of the
job but don't you get suckered into any of the stuff in the first place and
unfortunately a lot of the chain repair shops they don't even have that
qualified mechanics that are that good just the other day customer called me up
for their friend and said my friend took his car to this shop to put an
alternator on and then the thing died a couple days later and then they said oh
well it needed an alternator we don't know what's wrong with it now it's
something electronic but they didn't understand all that work they shouldn't
have put an alternator worked on a car in the first place and when I checked
that particular car out they didn't disconnect the battery timer when
they're working on the alternator and then they shorted the power wires off
the alternator when they took them off because this particular car wasn't
infinite and the alternator is really tight down low it's very hard to get to
the wire so they must have shorted it out and that fed through and it actually
fried the main computer and that was beyond those guys at that chain repair
shop if it got to take the battery terminal off so they're working on a
life system when I'm bolted that alternator to get to those wires there's
no working room you got to take the bolts off and then slide the alternator
and then take the wires off so it's very easy for the back wires the power wires
to touch metal parts of the engine when you're wiggling it off because you can't
get the wires off until you move the alternator a little bit
like that's why you always have to take the battery terminal off one or both
then there's no power in the system and then if those wires touch metal it
doesn't hurt anything because there's no power flowing through it the customer
isn't happy what happened to buy a brand new computer
chain repair shops it's all dented nothing to do with us I mean you'd have
to sue them and even in court it'd be very hard to prove that they actually
did that there were no traces off oh look this wire was broken off when I
worked on it they were all plugged in and everything like I told the customer
nine years ago they had taken it to a chain muffler shop and they wanted to do
some work on the engine and I said hey put on your thinking cap that you're
gonna let guys amp a muffler shop take your engine apart and fix a big mistake
now years ago I know a guy who ran a muffler shop and he would fix engines
and stuff and do a good job only thing was he didn't do it himself he just told
the customers it's gonna take 3-4 days and when I left to his friend to work on
engines and if the friend charged him thousand dollars to fix an engine he go
around and tell a customer was a $1,900 job think I did the work they actually
did good work but he was just pretty much doubling what he made by just
driving a car to the guy no it was done pick it up so really don't let people
sell you on needed things be very leery you know a guy like me or you have a
friend who knows a guy like me just contact him and say I think this guy's
trying to rip me off guy bring my car over guys like me will say sure bring it
over you know on lunchtime or something I'll check it out and tell you the truth
about the vehicle and it shows about this vehicles it doesn't need any of
that eighteen hundred something dollars worth
of work except for one thing the left brake works the right brake light works
the only thing that's not working is it needs bulbs in the little louver on the
back the airfoil that's on there that's all it needs and that certainly is an
$1,800 a work that needs done so now you know how not to get ripped off at
chained auto repair stores, so if you never want to miss another one
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