the worst part is that I'm probably getting fuc ed and not even kissed afterwards
Maybe he will at least cuddle with you after you pay him...
the worst part is that I'm probably getting fuc ed and not even kissed afterwards
maybe he will at least cuddle with you after you pay him...
You just won another trophy Mike........ you hit the nail on the head!!!! That's the main number one reason we DON"T work on FAMILY and FRIENDS VEHICLE"S!!!!!!!!!! We will see you at Carlisle Mke.
Hmmm, you're in central Florida...Was this friend the same guy that was selling VIN plates on eBay a couple weeks ago?
I've got no bone working on cars for people I know, but they are on a heavy discount with a fixed price, before I start. If I'm confident enough to work on someone's car that I know, that's how I roll. If it's too much time out of my week at the moment and will kill me at the rate I give them, I suggest a different shop that I send folks to.
This whole deal sucks, though. I agree. Just make this person aware of their hours flagged against a typical job. Let the mechanic roll it over and this person may respond accordingly, without feeling insulted.
When deals are off the mark that I'm involved in, I don't mind revisiting figures with good reason. If I'm at fault, I'll actually go the other direction, just because it was brought to my attention and I feel that I should know better, if I'm the one providing services.
I just called him and told him that I was coming out with AAA to pick up the car......the price dropped to $350 instead of $600. I'm going to pay him $300 and take the car back to my house. I'm figuring 20 bucks an hour at 15 hours for the brake job, does that sound reasonable? Remember, this is not a SHOP but the guys garage at home.
LMAO Or a retard ! with messed up knees . Ok maybe not 6 hours or i would have done mine by now lmaoa blind monkey with one arm tied behind his back could do it in 6 hours.
and if u know what your doinShoot man I should open a shop....Labor only. I would make a killing on jobs like this. I seriously think I could knock it out in 1 hour if that was my ultimate goal! I ain't bullshittinnnnn!
Go there, drop your pants, and tell him that for that price, he's stroking you and you want a happy ending since you are paying for it....
He's ripping you off. If he won't come down on the price tell him to put the old parts back on and you'll get SOMEONE REASONABLE to do it..
and if u know what your doin
Hey, Karl is back....welcome back
Boy, are you being ripped off, and taken to the cleaners.
Some of you may recognise me as a rebuilder, and then a seller, of these A body, Kelsey Hayes, 4 piston caliper, disc brake systems.
As someone else already mentioned, the biggest labor intensive part of the job is if you are completely rebuilding the calipers.
If i was doing that job i would probably be putting in around 4 hours to completely redo the calipers.
Taking the hard lines off, bleeder srews.
Separating the halves of the calipers.
Getting all 8 pistons out of their bores.
Sraping all the rust out of the rubber sealing ring bores.
Honing the bore cylinders.
Cleaning the calipers.
Soaking them out in Evaporust.
Painting the calipers.
Putting the seal kits in.
Putting back the pistons.
Re-assembling the calipers.
That's the time consuming part of the job.
To put new rotors onto the hubs, pressing out all 10 of the studs, transferring the hubs to the new rotors, pressing in the studs.
No more than 1/2 hour to do that by any compitent mechanic, doing something like that.
Then if one had to re-install everything onto a car and get it operational again, one to 2 hours, labor time, Max.
Boy, come to Sacramento, and i would have happily done all that work for you.
Do you have a written work order for what you wanted done?
I suspect not, so i don't know how your gonna be working your way out of the dilema of yours.
Best of luck to you though.
Jim V.