I'm sure you'd rather not cause a row with the Midas guy, but unless you take Dick Benjamin's advice you will have no one to blame other than yourself. Don't think that adding a little more money to get it out of there is going to be a solution. Your problems have just started. He may tell you his insurance won't allow you to take possession of the car until the problems are taken care of. You shouldn't drive it away from there in any case. Have it flat-bedded.
There are a lot of grey whiskers here trying to tell you basically the same thing. Do us all a favor and let us know that you had the car moved home or to a real repair shop. Don't be in a hurry to find the right guy. Come to think of it, that is one of life's important lessons, right.
AMEN to Mr.
Benjamin's advice....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Benjamin" <
dickb@sdccu.net>
To: <
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Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: IML: Am I getting screwed?
>I can't be totally direct here without causing trouble or stirring up a
> hornet's nest of anecdotal stories.
>
> My advice is to take the car to a locally owned (NOT A FRANCHISED > NATIONWIDE
> CHAIN STORE) brake shop that is operated by a person with grease under his
> fingernails, gray hair, and dirty overalls. If it is not safe to drive,
> have it flat-bedded. Ask him to straighten out whatever was done to your
> car. Get the old parts back from the Midas place, too, so he can inspect
> them.
>
> If you are in the San Diego - Southern California area I can advise you > what
> shop to take it to, but in other parts of the country, ask around for an
> honest brake or front end alignment shop run by a long time local owner - > go
> by there in another vehicle and ask to inspect his fingernails and > overalls
> - if they pass, ask if he would be willing to straighten out your car.
>
> Do not let the original shop touch it anymore.
>
> Dick Benjamin (who fits the above description, but has been retired from > the
> business for 12 years)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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> [
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MEG*
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 8:36 AM
> To:
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> Subject: IML: Am I getting screwed?
>
> If I wrote out all the details and the whole story it would take pages,
> so here is the brief summary. I took my '63 Custom to get new brake
> shoes on the front and the rear at Midas. They called me and said that
> I also needed 4 new wheel/brake cylinders. I don't know anything about
> brakes really, so when they told me I was leery. I mean, the car was
> stopping, granted it sounded like hell, but it was still stopping...if
> all of my cylinders had gone out would the car still stop? Whenever I
> went to pick her up last night I felt really uneasy about the whole
> situation, they just weren't giving me the comforting feeling that they
> knew what they were doing or that something was going on. They took
> her off the lift and had me test drive it because the brakes seemed
> mushy to them. I was scared to death, she wouldn't stop and we almost
> wrecked. I took her back and they came up with some crap about while
> bleeding the brakes in old cars sometimes the valve in the master
> cylinder will go out and that I needed a new master cylinder. The
> master cylinder was fine whenever I took it in there. That, and I just
> payed $846 for new shoes and the 4 wheel cylinders. I believe I was
> already screwed on the price, but I just want the input, advice and
> insight any of you may have. My boss told me that there wasn't a valve
> that they are speaking of. Please help anyway. I want to be prepared
> whenever the guy calls me about Ms. Pearl today.
>
Megan
>
>
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