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tinkerlow
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Goose creek, SC.
Just this morning my husband and I took our '91 Mercury Grand Marquis into a local repair shop to be fixed. (It had a drain on the battery for a long time and we just wanted it to stop.) We told the mechanic about the drain and that the alternator was making a buzzing sound. When we took it to the repairman he said that they looked over the whole electrical system and determined the radio was causing a 5 volt drain on our 12 volt battery and that was the only problem. So my husband and I were on our way home and the gas light was coming on so we stopped to get some gas. When we pulled into the gas station we realized that there was smoke coming out from under the hood, we popped the hood to find out that the alternator(which we bought back in Sept of 1997) had caught fire. Luckily there just happened to be someone around who had a fire extinguisher and was able to put out the fire for us. The repair shop came and picked us up at the gas station and towed our car back to the shop. After a very brief look at the car the very intelligent repairman determined that there had been a fire in the alternator caused by a short in the 'pigtail'(?) and said that his shop would replace the alternator for $365(parts only, not including labor). Am I in the wrong to think that the repair shop should pay for to replacement since it would seem that they caused the problem? Your advice would be highly appreciated.[email protected]
Just this morning my husband and I took our '91 Mercury Grand Marquis into a local repair shop to be fixed. (It had a drain on the battery for a long time and we just wanted it to stop.) We told the mechanic about the drain and that the alternator was making a buzzing sound. When we took it to the repairman he said that they looked over the whole electrical system and determined the radio was causing a 5 volt drain on our 12 volt battery and that was the only problem. So my husband and I were on our way home and the gas light was coming on so we stopped to get some gas. When we pulled into the gas station we realized that there was smoke coming out from under the hood, we popped the hood to find out that the alternator(which we bought back in Sept of 1997) had caught fire. Luckily there just happened to be someone around who had a fire extinguisher and was able to put out the fire for us. The repair shop came and picked us up at the gas station and towed our car back to the shop. After a very brief look at the car the very intelligent repairman determined that there had been a fire in the alternator caused by a short in the 'pigtail'(?) and said that his shop would replace the alternator for $365(parts only, not including labor). Am I in the wrong to think that the repair shop should pay for to replacement since it would seem that they caused the problem? Your advice would be highly appreciated.[email protected]
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