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I had to do this recently on a road trip to Utah (read: disgruntled girlfriend, what with Moby's other recent rounds of mis-behaviour). The mechanic said the book value was 4 hours for this job. Yikes! $500cdn for an $80 driveway job. I know it didn't take 4 hours to do, & they did a miserable job of bleeding the coolant, but at least we kept rolling... Lloyd Vancouver, Canada '84 1.9 Vgon "Moby" -------------- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:10:13 +0000 From: Peter Cassidy <pcassidy@APPLE.COM> Subject: Re: Need your input - questionable mechanic (long) >Hi all - [snip] > Also, he charged me >for 5 hours of labor for installing a water pump. >Does that seem a little long? |
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