Aligned into oblivion

joemish said

1st off no shop does anywork without authorization. you asked for alignment, for them to do any other work you must give permission. Your story sounds like the Old Ann Landers story where college kids send in fake story's as a joke. And Ann replies with a sob story. So being that I don't think you are that stupid to pay for repairs you didn't ask for, I believe your story is a prank or just maybe youe are......

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The OP (69conv) never said that he didn't give the shop authorization to do the work. He took it in for an alignment, they told him they needed to replace the ball joint and bushings, and they did the repairs.

Even assuming that there's no issue with the work being authorized, the shop still did shoddy, unsafe work at a ridiculous price. Who changes only one ball joint? How in the hell is changing the strut rod bushings a $450 job just in labor? And then they let the car out of their shop with the wheel going metal-to-metal with the ball joint they changed?

69conv has posted pictures of both the work order and the resulting damage. The sad fact is most alignment shops out there today have NO idea how to align one of these cars, and nothing about the OP's story is all that far fetched. Unfortunate, yes, but given my own experiences at local alignment shops and some of the things I've seen people post about here there's really no reason to doubt the OP's story.