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That made me chuckle. LOL So true. It just goes to show how "professional" some people treat the craft of auto repair. It seems to me that a lot of people consider the use of an auto mechanic as something that is not that important.... because they can fix it theirselves. Or, at least they think they can.

These places that offer such services are just grasping at any angle to sell their wares. What I've found out, over the years I've been doing this is that those people that are looking at car repair as something they can handle by themselves and then try... usually end up at a repair shop with an attitude. This attitude usually causes even more friction between the mechanic, the service writer and the new customer. They want it cheap, quick, and don't want to be told that all the work they did to their car was either wrong or not neccessary.

It chaps my arse to deal with these "scanner" reading misfits.

If I ever see a doctor offer his equipment for my personal use I for one would run like hell to another doctor.

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They do it because they sell a ton of unneeded parts. Oxygen sensors out he wazoo due to lean conditions.

 

HAHAHAHA, so very true. We replace so many cats and o2 sensors due to autozone and advance auto wanna-be techs.

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