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Old 03-05-2019, 03:40 PM
barry12345 barry12345 is offline
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I have no ideal of what goes on anymore. Had you left the car is it possible a new fan unit would have been installed. While you were billed for a new flexplate? The average customer knows less than nothing about cars in general today.

It is very hard to believe a noisy fan is similar to the sound of a bad flexplate. Even if it was the separation of the noise source should have been obvious. Could be an honest error as well. Or perhaps he just did not want to tell you.

For the younger guys on site. Mechanics in general in the day. Did not have to charge for diagnosis. The cars where simple in comparison and usually they knew just where the problem was. There would be a time charge of some sort to change out or rectify whatever it was of course.

Even on certain cars today the all too common failures if they know the brand. Are probably treated in a similar fashion sometimes. No point in diagnosing if you are already pretty certain of the issue. Although in todays world you might still pay for diagnosing. Simply because their internal operational costs are so high.

In general servicing of most types you made your money on the really common issues. You make less usually on the tough and intermittent ones.

Also the one or two mechanic shop requires a lot of equipment and subscription costs etc to really stay going properly. This increases his or their internal costs signifigantly. Times have changed so much you cannot even keep all the common failure parts in stock anymore. Actually other than fuses bulbs and lubricants etc. It just does not work out as well.
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