[V8] Old Content - T-belt Parts Rant! (Hee-Hee!)

[cobram at juno.com]

Yup, plenty of shops or techs will do piecemeal half assed jobs at the
customers request.  But they'll usually (if they have half a brain) put
down all the parts that they recommended and customer refused.  Then when
that idler or whatever starts to squeal like a stuck pig a few months and
miles down the road after an $800+ labor charge, you can pay them all
over again as they hold up a copy of the invoice and say "We told you so.
 

If it's a PITA or time consuming job like a timing belt, it's penny wise
and dollar foolish not change whatever you can.  I do it because I don't
like to do jobs twice.

But hey, it's your car, if you want to roll the dice, roll the dice.  If
it comes up snake eyes, oh well.

I can only think of one other owner left who actually pays a tech to work
on his V8's, I guess I know 2 now.  Be happy you can find anyone that
will even touch it, most shops don't need the headache, they have enough
work to pay the bills without the inherent headaches that come from
working on a 20+ year old orphaned car, let alone one that's German or
Italian for that matter.  ;-) 

"Overrepair" on a 20+ year old German car with an unknown
history....thanks for the laugh!



BCNU,
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Professor GT gmail <CavalloGT at gmail.com> writes:

> Anyway,  I'm also not of the "replace it all" mentality with respect 
> to doing a t-belt job. Some guys will throw every single related 
> part at the engine whenever they do a t-belt, saying its cheap 
> insurance against a "premature" failure. For the individual doing 
> his/her own work thats a personal choice. For the hired shop, thats 
> a great way to run up the bill so they can be sure to cover their 
> rent for the month, and that's a read sad way to run a business!

> Point is "over-repair" is still a rip-off, no matter how you try to 
> justify it. If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, looks like 
> a duck ................