Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 09:17:46 +0100 From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OCnopsamFoot.com> Subject: Re: oil change led to total exhaust destruction!
In article <ZZDu5.24581$Z2.314707nopsam1.uunet.ca>, the dude <cyberfamnopsamulink.com> writes > my fellow saab lovers, grab a box of hankies (that's > handkerchief's) because this story will tear your heart out. > i took my beloved 1989 900 S to the local garage for an oil change > yesterday. the service tech not only stripped the head of the oil > drain nut but backed the car out of the service bay while tearing > my exhaust system to shreds. you see he had caught the underside of > the chassis on a concrete outcrop (his words not mine). Ouch. >the exhaust system is not > salvagable. the car requires pipes, connectors, muffler, and a > catalytic convertor. the cost for a replacement saab genuine > convertor is 1900$ cdn. i decided on the advice of the service dept > to go with a second party convertor and keep the rest of the > exhaust saab. needless to say, this reduces the bill to about > 1400$. at least the garage delivered on its promise of a blank > cheque to pay for their negligence. In that case, why don't you go for genuine Saab parts? If it was a genuine Saab convertor in the first place, the clumsy garage can't complain if you require them to pay for a genuine Saab replacement. > i hope my car has not suffered any other damage besides the exhaust > system. who knows>? i am having trouble coming to terms with the > amount of damage caused by a slowly reversing car. i mean it > shouldnt have been traveling more than 2 or 3 km/h right? Powerful cars, Saabs. ATB -- Mike "His wish was to become a historian - not to dig out facts and store them in himself... but to understand them, call the dead back to life and let them speak through him to their descendants. She sometimes wondered who would pay for it and who would heed." - from "Harvest of Stars" by Poul Anderson.