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Apollo Forums Junkie Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia Registered: May 2002	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics Sun, 20 June 2004 12:40 damz wrote on Wed, 16 June 2004 17:20 After just getting boned again by another "professional" mechanic who is trying to overcharge me I reckon there needs to be a national register of mechanics online where average joe's can go to find out who is shifty or give a ratings system to them (rate good ones highly so that they get the business and shit ones pick up their act). This is one of the only industries which can get away with charging extreme prices for shit service which is hard to prove whether they even did the work they say. Kind of like pimpin'. Im new round here but maybe we could set up a thread dedicated to nominating shitty mechanics to avoid and good ones to go to? Anyone got advice about what I can do in response to being charged $700+ for the following 'work': New battery, new spark plugs, replace distibutor points, and the rest of the cost being labour to clean the throttle body, remove the timing belt cover to set the timing (!!), change the plugs and a few other little checks of possible bits and pieces. What are my rights to make him prove he has done 6+ hours of work to justify this cost? Cheers. Shit man, time to learn mechanics so you can do it yourself is my advice on what to do. That's really basic stuff. Not even any fluid changes there either, so you'd knock it all over in an hour. But as everything in life, if you can't do it, expect to pay for it. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	National register of Dodgey Mechanics	damz	Wed, 16 June 2004 07:20
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	coronamark2	Wed, 16 June 2004 07:31
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Chris Davey	Wed, 16 June 2004 07:46
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	damz	Wed, 16 June 2004 08:10
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	thechuckster	Wed, 16 June 2004 14:50
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	4ageeza	Thu, 17 June 2004 14:08
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	dimmy77_03	Wed, 16 June 2004 09:00
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	lyle-act	Wed, 16 June 2004 23:04
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	RobST162	Wed, 16 June 2004 23:39
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Allan	Thu, 17 June 2004 00:31
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	RobST162	Thu, 17 June 2004 00:37
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Callifo	Thu, 17 June 2004 00:39
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Joshstix	Thu, 17 June 2004 07:06
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	THE WITZL	Thu, 17 June 2004 08:03
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	draven	Thu, 17 June 2004 09:58
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	MaCCa	Thu, 17 June 2004 10:09
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	EVOSTi	Thu, 17 June 2004 10:31
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Toobs	Thu, 17 June 2004 12:01
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	RobST162	Thu, 17 June 2004 13:25
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Flem	Sun, 20 June 2004 09:13
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Apollo	Sun, 20 June 2004 12:40
	The end result	damz	Mon, 21 June 2004 13:25
	Re: The end result	tourerv	Mon, 21 June 2004 16:39
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Shraka	Mon, 21 June 2004 17:08
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	sideshow	Mon, 21 June 2004 23:05
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Mookie	Tue, 22 June 2004 04:02
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	sideshow	Tue, 22 June 2004 13:02
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Shraka	Tue, 22 June 2004 04:41
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	ae95	Tue, 22 June 2004 04:50
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	EVOSTi	Tue, 22 June 2004 10:51
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	midnight	Thu, 24 June 2004 14:35
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	IRA11Y	Thu, 24 June 2004 21:45
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	FWDCelica	Sun, 27 June 2004 01:59
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Zhyr	Mon, 28 June 2004 15:50
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	FWDCelica	Tue, 29 June 2004 08:27
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	truenosedan	Fri, 25 June 2004 01:33
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Shraka	Fri, 25 June 2004 01:55
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	kingmick	Sun, 27 June 2004 00:17
	Re: National register of Dodgey Mechanics	Shraka	Sun, 27 June 2004 05:48

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