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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
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 19:05:53 1984
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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!

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