Mechanic thought he was doing me a favor

Sorry to hear about your misfortune...
 
jerethemiah said:
I would rather not make an enemy of them. I don't think I'll try pushing my luck to have them pay for a detail.

They meant well and I think I'm just going to chalk it up as a learning experience...
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Sounds like a sound decision.:props:
And besides that:
We don't need you to be posting-up another Saab story. :)

Bob
 
What are you complaining about? You get to have some fun detailing your car again :)
 
Just a thought, how about the offering to teach their car wash guy how to properly wash cars? Of course step 1 would be to check for a "please do not wash" sign.

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That sucks bet whatever pro they would have fix it would just glaze the crap out of it with a rotary wool pad special. Make it worse than it is now
 
I wouldn't have the nerve to ask them to pay. I would consider it my fault for not ordering a couple of those DO NOT WASH signs.
There was no harm intended. It would be presumptuous to expect more from "normal" people.
 
^^^ Ehh, why not replace them all at once and be done? Especially once you get higher mileage and you don`t do them yourself. Save money in the long run.
 
JohnsHandWash&Wax said:
^^^ Ehh, why not replace them all at once and be done? Especially once you get higher mileage and you don`t do them yourself. Save money in the long run.
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I was a tech for a long time and usually the customer doesn't want to do that because they don't need to. Think of it this way, when you change your spark plug wires do you change your distributor cap? Coils are essentially individual distributor caps that take the spark directly to the spark plug instead of it traveling through a wire.

If one goes bad the bill is usually $50 for a new coil (price estimated) so if you have a 4 cylinder you would be replacing 3 good coils for $150 plus labor. If you have a V8 that bill goes up significantly to $400 for the other 7 good coils. This is one instance in which if it isn't broke don't fix it.
 
I had him replace only the bad one. It actually sort of exploded and started melting. He brought it out to the waiting room on a shop rag in two pieces and immediately the room smelled like melting plastic. It's a v6, and at $130 per part + labor I decided to just replace the bad one (and he only could get 2 coilpacks next day from his supplier). I'm currently a touch over 90k miles and have heard they start failing around then so I plan to pick up a couple to keep on hand. They seems easy enough to replace myself (except the rear 3 cylinders).
 
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