Re: IML: Am I getting screwed?

What does the name Midas mean anyway? And for whom?

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From: "Chris Strohmeyer"
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Subject: Re: IML: Am I getting screwed?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:00:57 -0800

My experience was when I called around for a
muffler replacement Midas was TWICE the price
of a private outlet. I figured a chain store
would be cheaper, well they're NOT.
Chris Strohmeyer
67 Imperial Convertible
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Cc: "Woolf,Richard T(Contractor)"
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:37 AM
Subject: RE: IML: Am I getting screwed?

> Did they replace drums or turn them.??
> Really need to know more of what they did.
> If they replace the master cycl, wheel cycl
> and shoes only, and adjusted them it should
> not have been more than $400.00. If they
> replaced drums then you could be looking at
> $800.00 with the rest of the brake work.
> Midas is the last place I would go to. Find
> an independe shop with an older mechaic and
> checck with them
>>
>
>> 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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