Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!fortune!mbr From: mbr@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Muffler static - (nf) Message-ID: <2818@fortune.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 19:05:53 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2818 Posted: Thu Mar 22 19:05:53 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 21:31:01 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 22 #R:aluxe:-139200:fortune:1500032:000:1085 fortune!mbr Mar 22 12:23:00 1984 Midas has a reputation for advertising cheap prices on mufflers. They never mention that they more than make up on that with their inflated prices for pipes and clamps! I used their guarantee once, when one of their mufflers wore out. They told me I also needed a new header pipe (which I did) and a new exhaust pipe (which I did not), and got very upset when I refused the exhaust pipe, but agreed to replace the muffler as long as I had them install a new header pipe. I later found out that the price they charged me for installation of the header pipe plus clamps would have covered replacement of the muffler and both pipes at a garage down the street! To add insult to injury, the pocket calculator I had lying on the dash when I drove the car in for service was not there when I got the car back. I cannot prove they took it, but I know it was there when I brought the car in! This place is on El Camino Real in Redwood City, Calif. Caveat emptor! {allegra,amd70,cbosgd,dsd,dual, harpo,hpda,ihnp4,megatest,nsc, oliveb,sri-unix,twg,varian,VisiA,wdl1}!fortune!mbr