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Just thought I would make everyone aware that their are some extremly dodgy mechanics getting around out there....
Heres my story..... After speaking to a fellow PP'er it was bought to my attention that the mechanics (a toyota one) wasnt doing their job properly. This other PP'er put their prado in there for a service only to get it back with black oil which hadnt been changed and when he bought it to their attention they say that they must have missed it while doing the service and that they would call him up to organise a time to bring it in, but they never called so he ended up changing the oil himself.
When I got my 20,000km a few weeks back I insisted that I check my oil before paying because I wasnt going to pay for its service if they hadnt changed the oil. Well my oil was very black with just a slight tinge of brown, obviously they only topped my oil up. I then mentioned it to them and had them all basically bullied me and try make me feel like an idiot by getting at least 7 people from there tell me that diesel oil goes black the second a motor is started and that is why my oil was so black. I may be a female but I'm not stupid.... :roll: I knew what they said wasnt correct as my partner and I own a truck and the oil in the truck is never black, not even when its due for a service. But I paid anyway and left there and planned to go elsewhere (but didnt tell them that). Then today.... I was driving home, I turned into a street mine is off and this group of people abused me, I was like "Hmmmmm whats their problem" anyway, I went back out not long after and they did it again, and then a few minutes later when I was heading home again they did it again so I stopped and asked them what the hell their problem was, because by this point I was furious as I had done nothing wrong. They all started abusing me saying that I was flying around corners and going really fast, I was like "I would have been lucky to be doing 20km and that my tyres are noisy so it probably sounds like I'm going fast" but they continued on abusing me and I had pretty nasty words to them before driving off when one of the guys (I knew I'd seen him somewhere before) said "Just wait until next time I service you car" In my mind only means 1 thing, he works at the mechanics where I take my car and plans on doing something to it next time I put it in for a service. Just goes to show that you cant trust all mechanics, and definetely cant trust the ones with "Toyota" in their name because you never know what they're capable of. I will be taking my Prado elsewhere from now on but if I get the same service as I've been getting from there I'll be going back to my old mechanic....
Heres my story..... After speaking to a fellow PP'er it was bought to my attention that the mechanics (a toyota one) wasnt doing their job properly. This other PP'er put their prado in there for a service only to get it back with black oil which hadnt been changed and when he bought it to their attention they say that they must have missed it while doing the service and that they would call him up to organise a time to bring it in, but they never called so he ended up changing the oil himself.
When I got my 20,000km a few weeks back I insisted that I check my oil before paying because I wasnt going to pay for its service if they hadnt changed the oil. Well my oil was very black with just a slight tinge of brown, obviously they only topped my oil up. I then mentioned it to them and had them all basically bullied me and try make me feel like an idiot by getting at least 7 people from there tell me that diesel oil goes black the second a motor is started and that is why my oil was so black. I may be a female but I'm not stupid.... :roll: I knew what they said wasnt correct as my partner and I own a truck and the oil in the truck is never black, not even when its due for a service. But I paid anyway and left there and planned to go elsewhere (but didnt tell them that). Then today.... I was driving home, I turned into a street mine is off and this group of people abused me, I was like "Hmmmmm whats their problem" anyway, I went back out not long after and they did it again, and then a few minutes later when I was heading home again they did it again so I stopped and asked them what the hell their problem was, because by this point I was furious as I had done nothing wrong. They all started abusing me saying that I was flying around corners and going really fast, I was like "I would have been lucky to be doing 20km and that my tyres are noisy so it probably sounds like I'm going fast" but they continued on abusing me and I had pretty nasty words to them before driving off when one of the guys (I knew I'd seen him somewhere before) said "Just wait until next time I service you car" In my mind only means 1 thing, he works at the mechanics where I take my car and plans on doing something to it next time I put it in for a service. Just goes to show that you cant trust all mechanics, and definetely cant trust the ones with "Toyota" in their name because you never know what they're capable of. I will be taking my Prado elsewhere from now on but if I get the same service as I've been getting from there I'll be going back to my old mechanic....
Can't complain though: she loves doing the mowing, putting the rubbish out, pruning the trees. Now if I could only get her onto those oil changes... 
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