Originally Posted by fc735
i am not backing my wife just cause she is my wife. i agree 100% with what she said because its the truth.
i dont know if any of you have ever had to deal with some of the customers i have had to, or had to deal with some of the work that was attempted and fucked up that i had to fix, but if you did you would completely understand her points.
they were not directed toward anyone on this site, as stated several times, so there should be no reason for people getting all pissy about what she said, but apparently it touched home with somone
Speaking as one of Joey's customers (who was probably WAY more of a headache than he could have imagined
) I do see his side. I have seen some of the stuff that comes into his shop, and, yes, a good deal of it is fixing things a customer thought they could fix themselves.
In fact, I worked on a friend's WRX recently, and when I got in there, he had half of the bolts missing, loose lines, etc. from where he tried to fix it himself. I did the best I could to put it back together, but there is only so much I (or any mechanic) could do.
I'm not going to get into any of this "outsourcing" or "second sourcing" or anything because I have no experience to draw from.
But I will say this: A good mechanic is expensive. That's why a lot of people try to do things themselves. But, like in most all aspects of life, you get what you pay for.