Originally Posted By: antiqueshell
Imagine that, I'm as reasonable, and rational a customer you can find.
Yeah, I'm sure. You certainly come across that way on here.
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So tell me why is it that ONLY ONE industry seems to have major issues
Because of your adversarial attitude and the chip on your shoulder?
I've had more problems personally from the food service industry, cable/internet industry, real estate/property management industry, utilities industry, shipping industry, etc. overall than I have had from the auto repair industry. The auto repair industry has never flat out destroyed something expensive I have paid for - UPS has. The auto repair industry has never performed completely not what I asked for or made me sick - the food service industry has. I have never had the auto repair industry violate a signed contract in an effort to extract more money out of me - I have had a landlord do that.
I have had to get a couple jobs redone, but [censored] happens, and it got fixed. I have had to redo some things I have done working on my truck myself too. Now that I work in parts, I still run my truck though the shop for some things like tires, or the pinion seal I recently had put in, and while I check the work, I don't worry about it either. I had the fluid changed when I had the pinion seal put in...ironically, the tech took more care in cleaning up the cover mating surface than I ever have when I changed the fluid on this truck.
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My "attitude" is appropriate for the circumstances I encounter.
If you run shady or incompetent operation, I will let you know and we are not talking about honest, occasional mistakes here I take those into account in all my dealings with all businesses.
Not all customers turn tail and run away without letting
bad businesses know it. But as you well know that is what they hope for especially when it comes to auto repair.
It sounds like you go into the situation looking for a fight. Either that or you seek out the cheapest/shadiest places to work on your vehicles and wind up getting what you pay for. There are bad shops out there for sure, including at the dealer level, but it's not representative of every shop or every tech in the industry. Just like the other industries I mentioned above are not all bad.
There is nothing wrong with a customer coming back with a legitimate issue. It's when they try to get someone else on the hook for a preexisting problem with their car that they need to be "fired."
FWIW, I see nothing wrong with KitaCam's complaints. The shop messed up. This is why I would not pay someone $300 to paint a roof though. That is too cheap.
Didn't you say before that you work for a company that manufactures parts for the OEMs? If so, why is your industry so disgraceful? Why do you send us so much defective junk? You guys must all be bad.