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Posted: July 03 2003,4:19 pm |
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Sometimes even having a guy with you wont help. The girlfriend has a POS Ford Focus. This thing has been trouble since it was new.
The other day it quit us and we had it towed to the local Ford house. Now these guys are the biggest bunch of arrogant pricks I've ever seen assembled in one place. We walk in and the service manager looks up and says, in his best sarcastic tone, "What, it's broke down again??" No asshole, we just like packing it around on the back of a roll-back tow truck.
We spent 5 minutes telling them what happened, and what I had tried to do to fix it (the car acted like it was starving for gas, so I put a new fuel filter on, I had a shot I figured). The guy looks at me and say, "Well, we'll put a new fuel filter on it and see if that fixes it." You could here my jaw drop.
We ended up with a new fuel pump in it, and it worked for a while, but it's still is not right. So I called them today, and told them the car is still not running right. Now these guys want the car back so they can put another pump in it. "Nope" I said, "we've eliminated the fuel system, unless we didn't get a new pump last week."
... silence on the other end of the phone.
You can't trust anyone, pricks. 
I think it's an ignition problem now, if they put a new pump in last week.
I'm beggining to not like cars  , especially one I can't really work on.
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11-23-2024 Gas price in your area (Rep.#7,276) from: stingray
I was driving the Cutlass and she lives down a few county roads. Â So, I'm going around a sweeping right corner, and the right front wheel drops into a little hole. Â "SCRAPE!!!" is what I hear. Â "Hmm, that's probably not good", I think.
There's oil pouring out the back of the pan. Â (I put one of those 9 qrt pans on the 455 when I stuck it in the car. Â It hangs a little low... alot to low it turns out. 
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Sometimes stock stuff seems so much simpler 
anyways, I had just had my oil changed at Firestone (because I'm a girly-girl and pay to have it done), I was driving down the freeways and I heard a thump. I didn't see anything that I could have run over, so I thought... "whatever" and kept on driving. 
I'm sorry, they way you write the story about your experience with the guys in the shop was funny. 
I have a friend who is a Ford Certified Mechanic and he works at one of the local dealerships here, I tried to imagine him being the way you described and I just can't see it, but I'm sure he is. There is just an arrogance about car mechanics in general. It's almost like they know they have the upper hand and they use it against you. 