#25 I had a dealership tell me that when I had a truck that wouldn’t start. Tried telling me the engine was shot.
I had done some investigating on the net while they were figuring out why it wouldn’t start. Turns out It was super cold and older plugs that didn’t fire, I had washed the cylinders down and lost compression.
When they told me the Engine was shot, I told them I wasn’t paying 3200 to have a engine installed. I told them to replace the plugs and when they have them out squirt the cylinder with a bit of oil. They really didn’t want to..but I insisted.
They called back a couple of hours later and said, we got your truck started. It’s running rough.... I said I’ll be right in to pick it up.
I drove it another 100,000 miles before it fell apart. I don’t trust anything a Dealership repair shop tells me EVER.
Dealer service is just another profit center, and they’re going to maximize their profit. They make more off of service than they do with the sale of a new vehicle. It always pays to do your homework and not go in for service without understanding what’s actually behind a given problem. The more clueless you appear, the bigger the bill is going to be.
Yeah, I will never do so again. I only went to the Ford dealership because they had been able to do a minor adjustment on the transmission a few years before, and I thought it might be the same problem. It cost me close to $100 for their diagnostics.
I usually go to a repair place in Stafford, TX called Freedom Automotive. I knew they didn't do transmission repair (other than complete replacements), so that's another reason I started with the dealership. The guy who rebuilt my transmission was just around the corner from Freedom. The Ford dealer can suck it.