Rough Ride After One Grand Spent On Suspension At Mechanic!!!!help

[theobserver]

Ok guys,my first post as a newbie here,I took my car to a mech shop on Tuesday,had problems with sudden rattling,clunking and grinding i knew it could not be the brakes as I had done the pads about four weeks earlier.
Mech test drives it,lifts it up and says you need rotors and new pads on front end,total job $340 then he comes in later says you have an oil leak to which i confirm yes,he replaces the valve intake gasket,$125.
Next he asks if I would like to do a full tune up,I go ahead because I knew I had not done it since I had owned the car for over two years,cost $185 job done,then he calls me two hours later to let me know that I will need right lower ball joint and right lower control arm total on that total job $429 he says that will fix the grinding.
Everything done I pick it up and the car handles worse than before,louder than before,I take it back he says I need left lower ball joint and left control arm plus alignment and tire balancing we are talking about $400 more at this point I am broke he says he will give me a free alignment problem at this point i think i will just drive it like it is,anyone know a reputable mechanic in the atlanta,GA area this is crazy

[Old School]

No I don't know a mechanic there and yes you did get the bend over.
You should shop around if it's not emergency repair.

[DRzCB72nr]

wow thats crazy...125 for a valve intake gasket?
i would of taken the car to an alignment place and tell them that i would like to get an alignment but if they could check what i needed first. Get the car fixed them take it to get aligned.

[casterX]

looks like all you needed was the front master bushing kit..

[19TcappaLX]

19TcappaLX

yeah the bushing kit sound like a good idea. and don't cost that much.

[jflo]

wow i feel for you but yeah shop around first

[H22Artman]

save money.

do your own repairs....


if you dont.

well then,
you can fully expect the standard treatment from repair shops.

with the way things are in our world lately every shop is struggling to make any dollar possible.

they will do what they can to get your $$

[lokuputha]

Better Business Bureau.

I hate shops like that. @ Canadian Tire here...they tried to get me to do a complete engine overhaul just because I needed a new water pump. bastards!

[Old School]

save money.

do your own repairs....


if you dont.

well then,
you can fully expect the standard treatment from repair shops.

with the way things are in our world lately every shop is struggling to make any dollar possible.

they will do what they can to get your $$

Yea it can feel like everyone is out to vacuum your wallet but there are honest repair shops, just have to find one.
I do ALL my own work.

[lonski]

F*ckin robbers I tell ya. Happened to me when I didn't know better. Keep changing this and that, and after you spent all that money and complain about the car not running any better, gives you a lame excuse of not being able to diagnose it well coz it's an old car. Now I'm left with bills to pay. F*ckin idiot! URGH!! I'm so furious right now...

[Shadow1]

$250 and 2 hours of work to put a timing belt tensoner on my cb. thats with everything moved out of the way for the guy. all he had to do was take the alternator belt and the crank shaft pulley.

do you think i let him do that? sike. took it down the street to a friend had him do it for $60 and took him 15min.


do your own repairs man. $120-$125 to put on a valve cover gasket? the kit alone doesnt even cost anywhere near that.


save up and do your own work. get a Haynes manual. tells you how to pull the entire car apart if you wanted to.

[wed3k]

whoa whoa whoa whoa...you come in complaining about suspension and steering noises and he sells you a brake job and a valve cover gasket?

fuck that bro, he needs to fix the problem at hand. sounds like that mechanic really doesnt know shit but he did make a grand off you.