Re: IML: Am I getting screwed?

["Chris Strohmeyer" <chrisstroh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)" <richard.woolf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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