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Originally Posted by 4X4
Dude, Auto Value and Partsource will read your codes for free. Stay away from Crappy Tire unless you're buying your yearly fishing license or a snow shovel. Do NOT take your car there.
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God damnit... that info would've been handy. Mental note... ask CP before I do ANYTHING. I'm aware canuck tire is not a good place for repairs... but this was just a simple 5 minute code read and I was about to leave town when the code came up... so it was either drive to red deer to pick up my reader and hope it wasn't anything serious... or something else. Frick... in the end that's what I should've done... cheaper.
What pisses me off is the a**hat who put my order into the system said the charge would be less, then the same a**hat says to me later when demanding the $100 and I called bullsh**, "You never asked about the charge, I would know, I'm the one that put it into the system." So freakin arrogant.
(do we have a more mad emoticon?)
Is this the kind of crap shops pull with woman all the time? Sadly, they don't realize it was a rip off....
edit: To make matters worse, you should have seen the sales pitch. Turns out the code was the ever so elusive evaporative emissions one. The hilarious part was that they called me into the shop to tell me what I should do. The proceeded to tell me the little hole/split in my rubber intake hose was the cause of the code and since the hole was there, the emissions in the box before the hole was leaking out. Now... this box they pointed as was the anti-resonator/water drain box. There are zero sensors in the intake until it gets to the engine and there are zero evap hoses going into the intake (yes... intake... does evap ever go into an intake?). After telling them I usually remove the entire intake system during the summer and get no codes, they just said I got lucky.
God damn. I started laughing it was so bad. Wait, maybe I should have laughed after they charged me... crap.
