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Richard Eldridge · #32 07-22-2004, 08:13 PM

I would not have bothered to write anything had the only problem been the "bait and switch" bit with the real wheel alignment.

I would think that anyone with a tire shop who advertised that he did alignments in the Yellow Pages would know that a 90 Mercedes-Benz 300D would require a 4-wheel alignment, just as anyone who did oil changes would know that a Mercedes Diesel needs about 8 quarts of CD through CL oil, or at least would look it up if he did not know.

A gas station attendent should know whether to put Diesel or gasoline in a car with a Diesel engine, as well. Every job requires a degree of professionalism, don't you agree?

He did not mention this when I brought the car in. He mentioned it as the alignment was being done. I could see the guy through the window fiddling with the rear wheels as he was asking me this.

It is quite probable that the guy doing the alignment told him and that the head guy did not bother to look it up.

I was not told of the bogus charge for $5.00 in parts until I was presented with the bill. It had not been previously mentioned, and the fool told me that there were no materials used, but that he simply stuck this on to each and every bill of all work he did, and not only that but that EVERYBODY did the same (which they don't) and that the county approved and perhaps even recommended this, which they do not do.

I simply told the guy that I thought it was unfair, that no one that I know ever did anything like this, and that I did not believe that it was legal. Then I came home and wrote this.

Here in Miami, Cubans generally like to inform everyone who is not a Cuban that Cubans work harder, work longer hours, and are more competent than all those other Latinos: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Peruvians, Central Americans, Venezuelans and whatever, as well as the Gringos and Blacks who lived here before they blessed us with their arrival, changing Miami from a sleepy Mayberry into a bustling metropolis. So I found this particular situation ironic, I suppose.

Having lived here for 30 years, I have not found that there is any reason to classify any particular group as being different than any other in terms of work ethic.

Social class makes a difference, perhaps, but not nationality per se. One would be wiser to draw conclusions only by comparing specific individuals rather than ethnic group.