A couple of days ago I posted a thread that our 2001 Impala with 111,000 miles was making a squeak noise while moving during a right turn or while breaking. I took it to my mechanic today, he took it for a test ride and phoned one of his men to give me a ride home while he was still driving it. A half hour later he called me and told me he was sitting at a light on his way back to my house to drop the car off to me. And that his mother was following him to take him back to his shop after he dropped the car off. I asked him how much do I owe him and he said "nothing, the heat shield had rusted and bent and was rubbing" and he fixed it. Five minutes later he delivered the car and I gave him a $20 and said thanks.
I had told him I did not think it was the brake pads because he had replaced the front pads about 8 months ago and they now had about 4,000 miles on them. Over the last couple of years he has worked on that car many times for many things, It was nice of him to offer to do the repair for free because he thought it was something very minor. The noise that sounded like a brake squealer rubbing while turning or breaking had me very concerned. I did not know what was wrong with it, I though the car might be unsafe to drive at highway speeds and was worried about some kind of catastrophic failure.
Although the various repairs on that car over the last couple of years have cost a lot, it seams my mechanic is honest.
I had told him I did not think it was the brake pads because he had replaced the front pads about 8 months ago and they now had about 4,000 miles on them. Over the last couple of years he has worked on that car many times for many things, It was nice of him to offer to do the repair for free because he thought it was something very minor. The noise that sounded like a brake squealer rubbing while turning or breaking had me very concerned. I did not know what was wrong with it, I though the car might be unsafe to drive at highway speeds and was worried about some kind of catastrophic failure.
Although the various repairs on that car over the last couple of years have cost a lot, it seams my mechanic is honest.
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