bigbadjoe
Pro Tuner
Just had my car MOT'd. The price was £55 (I know that is £5 over the going rate) and he could book me in for today. I called him last night and said I was unable to take my decat off, as it is too far forward on the exhaust to use ramps as I cant drive onto them, only revers.
My exact words were ''as your mot'ing it, do you mind taking the dcat off and putting the cat on for us''
to witch he replied ''no problems mate''
Car passed with no minors or anything. Went to pay and he said the charge was £84.94!!!
I asked why this was and he said it was half hour labour to change the cat, and that he doesn't work for free. I was gob smacked! I could have used my mates ramp for free, but my MOT would have been a day out. I expalined to him that it was only 4 bolts and would take me (a non mechanic) arround 5 min to change. He asked me to speek to the mechanic who did it for proof. WHAT PROOF. #!#!#!#!in Con men. He never said he would charge when I was on the phone. What a joke! I said I would no longer advise people to use him, and I defo would not use him again. I then said, I probabally put about 2-3 grand's worth of labour his way a year, and that would stop. Silly sod said fine.
If it took the mechanic any longer than 10 min, then there is a real problem.
My exact words were ''as your mot'ing it, do you mind taking the dcat off and putting the cat on for us''
to witch he replied ''no problems mate''
Car passed with no minors or anything. Went to pay and he said the charge was £84.94!!!
I asked why this was and he said it was half hour labour to change the cat, and that he doesn't work for free. I was gob smacked! I could have used my mates ramp for free, but my MOT would have been a day out. I expalined to him that it was only 4 bolts and would take me (a non mechanic) arround 5 min to change. He asked me to speek to the mechanic who did it for proof. WHAT PROOF. #!#!#!#!in Con men. He never said he would charge when I was on the phone. What a joke! I said I would no longer advise people to use him, and I defo would not use him again. I then said, I probabally put about 2-3 grand's worth of labour his way a year, and that would stop. Silly sod said fine.
If it took the mechanic any longer than 10 min, then there is a real problem.