Screwed over by dealership

[justalayman]

If you ran over a nail would you would you replace the tire or patch the tire? Same concept the clutch wasn't exactly bad my mechanic checked it and said it would need one in the next year. But when you are towed to t dealership cause your truck won't more you kinda trust what they say. But I guess the real answer your looking for would be the around 2000 since it was going to cost around 1400 for my mechanic to replace the clutch. Where they charged 3400.

There ya go. Get your mechanic to testify he would do everything the dealer did for $2k less and sue the dealer for that amount. Given it would be small claims you might have a shade more chance than a snowball in Hell does with not melting.


Of course the dealer will get 100 quotes of their price being a fair market price and argue your mechanic (friend) is artificially lowering his price.


Oh ya, didn't that $3400 include a new disc, pressure plate and resurfacing the flywheel?

Didn't you say you already have the clutch at home? So you probably weren't including the price of parts in that $1400, were you? There goes that snowball melting.

 

[aradio13]

1400 is including the 792 dolar clutch kit

 

[justalayman]

1400 is including the 792 dolar clutch kit

You go ahead and try to show that is not an unrealistically low price.

 

[aradio13]

Here a freightliner that does the clutch installed for 1299.00 http://www.trucksavvymall.com/wcflsf/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=12&products_id=83

 

[xylene]

You have a right to an estimate and multiple estimates.

Your vehicle was not moving, so like you're talking tow. that's big money on a hunch.

Suck it up, you weren't screwed you just had repairs done for more than you'd IDEALLY want to pay.

You know how often that happens? All the time.

 

[justalayman]

Your vehicle was not moving, so like you're talking tow. that's big money on a hunch.

something I hadn't thought of:


by chance did the dealership tow the truck to their shop? If so, was the tow "free" with the work and if you took it elsewhere you would have had to pay for the tow?


but still there are clutch installs and there are clutch installs. If there was any work beyond a simple clutch install that has to be considered as well. unless your bill said:

1 clutch set $XXX.xx

labor for one clutch install: X hours @$XX.xx per hour total: $XXXX.xx


there was more than a simple clutch install.




but hey, since you had this clutch setting around at home and you already knew your mechanic would install it for $1400, you already knew you could get it installed for less so why did you ever agree to the higher price? You have a insurmountable issue given you already had arranged to have it installed locally to home yet you willingly paid the higher price. Either there is something you aren't including or you simply weighed your options and chose to have the clutch installed where it sat.

 

[single317dad]

but hey, since you had this clutch setting around at home and you already knew your mechanic would install it for $1400, you already knew you could get it installed for less so why did you ever agree to the higher price? You have a insurmountable issue given you already had arranged to have it installed locally to home yet you willingly paid the higher price. Either there is something you aren't including or you simply weighed your options and chose to have the clutch installed where it sat.

Likely it was a friend of his that agreed to install the clutch for that price in his personal garage at his own leisure. That was all well and good until OP had a mechanical failure and needed the truck fixed in more of a right here/right now capacity. I'm not the least bit surprised the cost of that was 2-3x the "friend" price.

I see so many drivers do this. They have a friend who can do the work, but isn't always available on the usual drivers' schedule (many drivers are home every second or third weekend, from Friday just before midnight until Sunday afternoon), so they put the work off. Next thing you know, they're broken down and paying through the nose, or DOT has them parked OOS behind a scalehouse.

 

[aradio13]

No I had to pay the tow truck it was 300 plus 3 dollars a mile.