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Hi there, i have a Toyota Hilux surf SSRX 3.0 diesel turbo and have had it now for 4 years and have it serviced every year and it is well looked after, well 3 weeks ago it was time for its full service i also wanted some new tyryes fitted and spacers along with 3 CV gaiters fitted at £170 for the service 3 Gaiters replaced and fitted, Wheel spacers fitted and brand new off road tyers fitted excluding the cost of the the spacers and tyres as i bought them from rough trax....the garage bill to do all that was £450....that was a shock to be honest, then today it went in for its MOT me being MR wise ass thinks "oh it will fly through it" "There is nothing wrong with it"...even the mechanic i spoke too after all the above work 3 weeks ago told me that everything is fine because i was asking about the brakes being 33% worn as what is said in the service advice section. So that is why i was quite confident in it flying through it.
Well today it failed!..it needed a new track rod end in which he admitted it could of been me that damaged it before when he done the tracking as they are pigs to get loose apparently....£39 then he said the ball joints have gone i asked are they the ones at the bottom and he said yes(I'm no mechanic you see
) then he said they keep gong on them...diddn't i do them about 2 years ago?...i said yes you did.....he said well they need doing as well for the MOT..another £39 roughly, then £21 to have the wheels re-aligned then he said £70 labor so that is £170 odd quid I'm getting sick of paying out for this truck every year surly they should not keep costing all this..what happened to the saying as long as you look after them and have them serviced they should not cost you too much?..i have booked it in for Wednesday but I'm well gutted.
So after installing these new ball joints after 2 years should they need replacing????...i wish my father was alive he was a diesel fitter, a mechanic with 45 years experience he would of told this garage to do one i think!!
Whats even more annoying is that i did not inherit any of his mechanical genious..not one brain cell of it!
OH yes looked through some of my recepits and found that he fitted 2 new ball joints march 17th 2009!!! arethey still under the parts waranty..what shall i do!
Well today it failed!..it needed a new track rod end in which he admitted it could of been me that damaged it before when he done the tracking as they are pigs to get loose apparently....£39 then he said the ball joints have gone i asked are they the ones at the bottom and he said yes(I'm no mechanic you see
) then he said they keep gong on them...diddn't i do them about 2 years ago?...i said yes you did.....he said well they need doing as well for the MOT..another £39 roughly, then £21 to have the wheels re-aligned then he said £70 labor so that is £170 odd quid I'm getting sick of paying out for this truck every year surly they should not keep costing all this..what happened to the saying as long as you look after them and have them serviced they should not cost you too much?..i have booked it in for Wednesday but I'm well gutted.So after installing these new ball joints after 2 years should they need replacing????...i wish my father was alive he was a diesel fitter, a mechanic with 45 years experience he would of told this garage to do one i think!!
Whats even more annoying is that i did not inherit any of his mechanical genious..not one brain cell of it!
OH yes looked through some of my recepits and found that he fitted 2 new ball joints march 17th 2009!!! arethey still under the parts waranty..what shall i do!
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