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Originally Posted by Boxstard
Good luck and I trust that you can correct things on your own and enjoy the car in no time.
I just hate to my gut that the shop is getting away with such horrible job, and this reminds me of how I got into wrenching my cars for over 30 years.
My first car was a 72 Beetle back in 1989, and I had a VW dealership do valve gap adjustment. On my way back home, a rear tire came off of the car in the middle of intersection and I somehow managed to avoid accident. They forgot to torque lug bolts properly and I got one lug bolt lost out of them after argument but no sincere apology for potentially killing me, I was just their inconvenience. It was then that I decided to rather spend money on tools and manuals to handle repairs all myself, and basically I’m maintaining and repairing all of my cars ever since, unless the car is under factory warranty. I just started doing wheel alignment home too, while I still have to let a shop mount tires and balance them, but even then I don’t let a shop touch my 986, only bringing them loose wheels as I have two sets of wheels for summer and winter tires.
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My brother took my 1971 914 to a Sears Auto Center for tires or brakes years ago. He pays the bill and pulls onto the freeway and accelerates into traffic. 3 of the 4 wheels and tires fly off of the car, one bouncing directly into the path of an elderly couple, bouncing over their windshield. The car is on the rotors and one wheel still barely attached at the entrance ramp. They had failed to tighten ANY of the wheel bolts! No one died by sheer luck. They paid out thousands in repairs, rental cars, etc.
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