Road side repairs.
There is a thread on another site, (I won't mention which one) about AAA and AARP plans for roadside assistance.
I started thinking about it and I can't say I ever grew up with such a thing.
The only roadside assistance I have ever had is a tool box and various parts which are common fail parts.
I have a bike tire pump and tire plug repair kit......I have fixed flats on the roadside before.
I changed a fuel pump on a slant six on the side of the road.
Even changed a distributor that had a broken plastic gear on a slant. All on the side of the road.
Do you guys have a roadside assistance plan or do you fix your own stuff and what repairs have you done on the side of road ??
I do all my family vehicle stuff for the most part unless it's something that sucks and I don't want to do it. (like the timing belt on our Son's girlfriends PT cruiser:D)
When I had my auto repair business in CA I had an A100 long wheel base van that I had all my tools, compressor, jacks, ramps and so forth in for doing on site work.
Sometimes it literally was roadside repairs.
I also had waste oil recovery tanks with vacuum ability for pulling out oils and fuels because of CA's strict laws about waste fluids.
I can't list everything obviously, but one I specifically remember was a limousine service that called because they had an 8am high priority customer but their one limo available had water in the oil.
They called late in the afternoon and I went to check it out, and come to find out it had blown head gaskets.
They practically made me swear the car would be ready and I did it right there in the parking space.
7:30am the next day it was all done and went on it's service.
Now here's one I hope you never have. (I'll make it short)
Guy wants to buy a used motor for his Honda Accord.
He pays me for the motor and I give him a receipt and order the motor.
I put the motor in and he calls back 3 days later saying there is a small oil spot under the engine, and I explain to him that I would be charging him for the repair since it was a used motor bought by his choice and he pitched a huge fit about it.
Anyway we made an appointment for him 4 different times and he was never available to do the repair.
Next thing I know he's suing me for the motor and tells the Judge he had to go to work, so when the oil light came on he kept going and the motor seized on the freeway.
Then he tells the Judge that I would only accept cash and never gave him any receipts, but I had quadruplicate invoices with his signatures, dates and check numbers for the payments.
Ok, now I tell the Judge we made 4 different appts for him to get the engine leak fixed and he never showed when the appt time came and that I also had all these (held them up) invoices showing check numbers and this guy's signatures proving the guy was lying.
Judge wouln't even look at the invoices and immediately found in favor of the guy.
