Sunday, March 28, 2010

Crazy Weekend

So last weekend I was driving through foxridge and my jeep steering wheel started to stiffen up making it hard to turn. I some how made it into a parking spot and sat and moved the wheel around a little bit to get it to move better. Then once I got it to work again I took it back to my apartment lot and left it there until I could figure out what to do with it. So later that night I called up the campus exxon to see if they could look at it. The guy told me they would and to bring it over whenever and they would look at it on Monday. So I take the car over sunday and hoped that it would be done in time for me to leave on thursday after my test. So around 9 am on Monday when I was walking to class I got a call from the exxon place saying that they couldnt find anything wrong with the pump and fluid so they would take apart the steering colum and lube up the parts in there. Well I had that done for $116, and needless to say I still didn't feel comfortable when I got in my jeep to drive away. It still made this clicking noise when I would turn it to certain points. I knew I had to go home thursday so I didn't bother to question if they did anything so I just went on my way. I trusted that they looked it over and made sure that it didnt have severe damage. Anyways needless to say on my drive home thursday my steering wheel stiffened up real bad when I was driving on 81, I was going around turns hoping it wouldnt keep going straight. Somehow maricle pending I made it to my sisters house and that was good enough for me since my friend who is a mechanic could get to it. That night he took it to his shop to allow for him to look at it the next morning. Finally when he took a look at it he thought it might have been something in the wheel axels, but it wasn't it turned out to be my steering wheel bearings they were completely shot. I was so pissed that the campus exxon didn't see that and they should have if they really did get into my steering colum. They have completely lost my trust and will not be getting a good message about them from me. I am also going to go and talk to them about this when I get the old bearing back and show them that this could have caused a severe accident.

3 comments:

  1. Damn straight man! Make them feel like jerks! It is so frusrating when mechanics will say they did somehting when actually nothing was done. I just people could start being honest.

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  2. Man I'm really glad my mechanic is a family friend. Not only is he obviously trustworthy, but my family gets discounts on an already good price.

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  3. Yeah I feel like a lot of mechanics are honest the least bit. They just try to hustle you out of your money and they can do it because most people don't know much about cars. It sucks.

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