SHIEF Posted January 8, 2005 Report Share Posted January 8, 2005 Normally I don't make comments like this but I can't help it on this. Just trying to warn people. We get this lady that comes into the shop to check her car out 93 T-bird 3.8. The car would run good for a few minutes then run like crap the next, then run good again. She show us reciepts from Firestone in Reynoldsburg. They charged her $100 to hook up a scanner to her car. Then charge her another $100 to put on a fuel filter! Yes for a fuel filter on the frame. That didn't fix the problem, so they said it ran like that because of carbon on the pistons She got a bill of like $388 for basically hooking up a scanner, a new fuel filter, and poor info. Ended up the harmonic balancer was broke, but inside the timing case cover on the crank. The balancer has a gear which is used to see timing on the engine and it would read correct when the broke parts would come together then read incorrect when it spun around again. To sum it up, Firestone in Reynoldsburg has no clue what they are doing and charge people like they do have a clue graemlins/thumbsdown.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jpurdy2003 Posted January 8, 2005 Report Share Posted January 8, 2005 That's some shady shit. You did a good thing by giving the board a heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMeanGreen Posted January 9, 2005 Report Share Posted January 9, 2005 Moving to Consumer Reports, that's what the forum is there for smile.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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