Last Christmas I was coming home from visiting my girlfriend's when I did a curb check. I was going down a road that I've driven down several times before (always in day though) when the street sign to my left indicated I was coming up to the stop light and that there were 2 left turn lanes. The lane to my left opened up and I needed to get on the inside left turn lane so I moved over. As it turns out, the lane that opened was to enter a shopping center, yet the sign didn't warn me of that, and I drove the front of my car over it. I managed to swerve and only hit with one wheel, and it bent the rim on my tire.

Tire was fine and all yet the rim was bent. I was told this was going to cost me like $125 or so to fix (my tires are $200 each). So I took it to the Discount Tire Co. near my house and the guy said he could have it fixed within 2 days. Well I called this morning and they said to come get my wheel and they'd put it back on my car. So I went up there and payed the $135 (tax) for the wheel and walked off. About 5 minutes later a guy walks in and said that it turns out the wheel couldn't be fixed and that I'd have to buy a new one. Apparently no one called me this morning to tell me this.

So I walk over and watch the guy place the order. I look at the price tag for the new wheel, and it's $530! The place they buy it from is charging them $165 and then I was to be charged $530.

The manager walks over, looks at it and goes "Screw it, just charge him the price it would cost to repair his wheel since we screwed up."

So now I am getting a brand new rim for my tire with a major discount. Only kicker is I dunno when Im gonna get to drive my car again.

Should've just gone into the shopping center then turned out :p

This world needs more people like him.

Yeah. From what I've heard about mechanics, that suprises me.

As surprising as it may sound, they are still humans (or so they say).

A lot of mechanics I've found outr to be filthy crooks. (they didn't do the work I paid them for, charged extra, or just did everything half-*ssed).

In all the years, i've met only one honest guy.

My grandpa's a mechanic, runs his own shop and everything. "Jimmy nuts and bolts." He caught one of his employees ripping some old lady off by draining her oil and some other stuff so she'd come back in a month. My grandfather threatened to fire the guy (Who could probably never get a job with his law record as well as his addiction to heroin. My grandpa know's the kid's father, and promised him the job) unless he worked on the woman's car for absolutelly free, fixed all of her car's issues, as well as buff the entire car and wax it. The kid had to pay for all of the stuff used on the car, and the old lady got it all free. The kid had to write her an apoligy so that she didn't sue them.

There ARE good mechanics out there.

JediKirby

Your grampa sounds like a good decent guy. I wish all mechanics were like that...

Dude, my mom did the same thing a few weeks ago, except she only blew out the tire. The rim was fine.


We have a good mechanic only a block from our house. He's probably one of the most reliable and honest mechanics around this part. Unfortunately, some people thought it would be funny to steal all of his tools during the halloween season, so he's kinda out of business now.

I was doing like 45. If I hadn't veered my car hard to the right, I'd of taken more out of my car.

You drive like a female.

holy **** dude my sister just did that a few weeks ago....we think the axle broke....wlel, thing is we were out in danville, pa on our way to williamsport to visit our aunt and our parents were waiting for us there....anyways we kinda take a wrong turn and then we get phone call from a worried-sick mother and i give me sister the phone at the gas station, and she's talking and getting all mad at my mom...well she hung up and threw the cell phone against the dashboard, cell phone fell down, and she looked down to see where it went and smashed into the ****ing curb. i never laughed so hard in my life (as the song 'One shot 2 shot' started playing before she hit the curb)....anyways we get our dad and uncle to come help us put the spare on, and that ended up blowing out, so me and my dad bring another tire the next day, and that one blows out 20 minutes from our house, then we get another one and it does fine, but my sister is like 'augh forget it' and ended up trading it in for a 2005 Saturn ion Sedan.

she didn't really pay a dime for the car that broke, cause she bought it for $700, then some *** smashed the front light in a parking lot and the insurance company sent a check of $700, and she didn't bother fixing it.

i got screwed though....my 89 oldsmobile ran outta transmission fluid and died, my cousin ends up selling me her car-89 buick lesabre for $800....which really costed $1170 cause of title change, belt change, oil change, and ****ing inspection. it's got 117,000 on it...which isn't bad from what i hear, but still...