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[quote=Anonymous]Someone who knows more than I do, please advise!

My 19-year-old car was having trouble starting and I brought it to my (previously trusted) mechanic. After a day in the shop, I got a call explaining what was wrong with it.....mumbo jumbo, mumbo jumbo.....with a quote of $900 to repair it. The car has a trade-in value of about $2000 and I was planning to buy a new car in a couple of months.

The guy told me that this was absolutely the problem and the car will run like a top after this repair. My thought was that if I didn't pay the $900. I'd donate it and have it towed from my house,  but if I did pay the $900, I'd recapture the cost and come out $1000 ahead. (Plus I wouldn't be in crisis mode to buy a new car next week, for which I am unprepared.) So, I authorized it, and they said they'd absolutely have it done by this afternoon.

Now I get a call that after they did the $900 repair, the car still is having troubles, and that they really needed to do the first repair before they could determine if anything else was wrong. I argued that that was not the message I got yesterday - I was told that the $900 repair would fix it. If I had been told "maybe', I wouldn't have authorized the repair.

What should I do at this point? He said he'd call back in an hour to tell me precisely what additional problems they found. [/quote]

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