Brent--You make some excellent points particularly relative to labor
charges. I've always had the philosophy that if they "open it up" then it
makes economic sense to put in new parts. On the injectors, the cost of the
labor off having it done again was more than the cost of all the injectors.
What's the old saying "penny wise and pound foolish" ?

"Brent P" > wrote in message
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> In article >, Dave Combs wrote:
> > As a professional you do indeed have an obligation to do the right thing
> > whether moral or legal. I just had my injectors replaced on my '90 LX
5.0.
> > They said they could locate the bad one and replace it but there might
be
> > others going bad down the road so I agreed to have them all replaced.
They
> > also recommended Ford OEM ones over the NAPA ones at a higher price,
> > obviously, to which I agreed. So I guess I'm your kind of customer. As
I
> > mentioned in my earlier post on this thread when I used to do my own
brake
> > work I just replaced the pads but that's my problem. When I pay good
money
> > for a professional job I expect a trouble free repair so I am. maybe the
> > only one, on your side.
>
> There's different motivations behind a shop doing a job and doing it
> yourself. Labor is expensive. For instance, my mustang got banged up when
> a 16 year old turned left 5 feet in front of me. I got the hood and
> bumper cover back and am fixing them. The body shop just replaced them.
> Even at the cost of new ford parts it's cheaper than their guy doing the
> work to make the originals right. But I can just work on them when I am
> bored and eventually I'll have viable spares.
>
> Same thing with your injectors I'll guess. You could have paid them to
> find the one bad injector or just paid to have them all replaced. It
> doesn't make sense to pay all that labor and then still have all the old
> parts. But for someone doing it themselves, maybe the money is worth more
> than the time.
>
> For someone knowledgable about cars and such it's easy to figure out the
> motivations. However there are some shops out there that are just scams.
> I still remember one particular shop that tried to scam my brother when
> he hobbled his car off the road to the shop. After talking to guy on the
> phone I simply told my brother to have the car towed home and I'd look at
> it. The shop was trying to scam him, big time.
>
> The problem is the average person doesn't know the difference between the
> two. So they got burned once, but then a mechanic suggests something that
> is perfectly reasonable and it's thought to be another scam.
>
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