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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 that's one funny story |
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Turkey
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Definately very funny, If I was there I'd love to get myself a couple of 2008 and 2009 presidents too. :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
869 Posts |
You have turned mechanics onto coin collecting. Good job  |
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United States
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If I remember correctly, there's a law in the U.K. saying that merchants don't have to take more than about 10 coppers (1 and 2 pence coins) in a transaction. A guy tried to pay a parking fine in coppers, the town refused to take it and he refused to pay in anything other than a bag of loose coppers.
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United States
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I dunno... I would totally think it awesome is someone showed up with bags of stuff out of the ordinary. I feel kind of bad for calling it a fail though...
FAIL!
I couldn't help myself.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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As a person that has worked on cars most of my life, my Dad had a gas station, most of my friends are machanics, I just think you got taken a bit there. I couldn't imagine anything getting into your brake system that would cost that much money. A complete bleeding of the entire system several times wouldn't cost more than about $50. Most of that would be labor too. A few quarts of brake fluid is about $10. I just replaced the front Calipers, pads, hoses, in the fronts, new pads and associated springs on the rears including turning the drums on one of my cars. Naturally this was followed by completely bleeding out the entire system. Total cost was about $500. Mostly due to a special car for parts.
Coins or no coins, they came out way, way ahead.
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Australia
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Just Carl, as a spare parts person, I would have to agree with you. Acidic1, I'm not sure what car you have, but even if you had to recondition all wheel cylinders, calipers and master cylinder, I wouldn't think it would come to that much. Unless the mechanics bought all new genuine items, then it could be possible. I'm also sure that we have a law in Australia too, that allows vendors to knock back "illegal tender", but I'm not sure how many coins that relates to. Steve 
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10/09/2009 8:28 pm
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United States
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Guess that one backfired, eh? |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
632 Posts |
Yep...2001 Monte Carlo SS...all new parts from the master to the calipers. I'm upside down on it and I've had many sleepless nights thinking about how to get out from under it. I think I'm just gonna have to suck it up and double up on my payments. That means less coins for a while.
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Canada
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In Canada, we do have a law on the books that has limits to the amount of coins a merchant has to take in a transaction, and there is a limit on each denomination, for example, they don't have to take more than 25 pennies if they don't want to.
As to your car situation, do you have a state law that they must give you back all the parts they replaced? In my experience they have such a law in Minnesota, as well as in Ontario and Manitoba. This is to prevent them from re-using your old parts but charging you for new ones, as well as allow you to look over what they replaced and make arguements about why they replaced parts that didn't need replacing in the first place.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't know...makes good sense though, to get your old parts back.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not meaning to turn this into an auto forum butttttt Quote:
As to your car situation, do you have a state law that they must give you back all the parts they replaced? In my experience they have such a law in Minnesota, as well as in Ontario and Manitoba. This is to prevent them from re-using your old parts but charging you for new ones, as well as allow you to look over what they replaced and make arguements about why they replaced parts that didn't need replacing in the first place.
This is true in most states but you must know about it and ask for all replaced parts. In this instance it may well be to late. I'm sure they did NOT replace hardly anything. Possibly just bled out the system several times and said we replaced all kinds of stuff. The reciept too should document all parts. Again, it is up to the client in most states to ask for this. Again, most likely to late. I suggest you spend some time learning bout cars for now and leave coins alone for a while. Really pays off to know at least what they are doing to your car. Around me most of my friends say an auto machanic is a person that is licensed to steal. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Carl. I hear what you're saying. I should mention that this is a dealer garage. All new OEM parts, guaranteed work. It would be very difficult for this garage to do anything "hinky". Its the main reason I use only them for all my cars. I bought that car at that dealer. They are the only people to open the hood on this car since I bought it. I just didn't think they wanted to be paid in coinage.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think the British, Aussies, Canadians and the Swiss have something called "legal tender" laws, which limit the number of coins a person can use in one transaction. It's not really enforced but merchants can refuse to take that many coins.
oh well, at least he'll have fun going through those coins. More coin collectors, then!
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Valued Member
United States
372 Posts |
I wonder if the mechanics were already coin collectors or they just saw big bags of jingly stuff and it turned them into collectors. I've been surprised to find out people I work with (and even family members) are coin collectors and I never knew it.
On a side note, whenever I go to the shop to get my oil changed, I ALWAYS discreetly put my initials on my oil filter in sharpie. That way, I know they changed it. I did it for awhile with not catching anyone doing anything shady, but finally it paid off. I caught the "bad people" (replace "bad people" for appropriate swear word)charging me for a filter change and it was my original one. I showed them the intials and they danced around trying to find an excuse. It's not terribly easy to initial everything on a job like yours, but I highly advise any of you to do exactly as I did. It paid off!
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