Aluminum Timing Cover Damage
I bought that truck with a PILE of reciepts, was largely what made me decide to get that one, seemed it was well maintained. But everything that was done seemed like it needed done 4x (how many serpentine belts and tensioners would you expect an "old man owned" truck to go thru in 17 years/52k miles? I got it with 104k miles and dang near everything I had to touch besides things like oil changes had been done at least once while the last guy had it, and things that would make me want to seek out this place and punch out somebody's teeth, as badly as they took advantage of this guy.
Some of the last work he had them do before his family sold the truck (he was 86 and in rehab for a busted hip when I bought it) was 2 alignments, within less than 300 miles and a month apart. 1200 miles from the 1st alignment he had done, til I bought it.
He'd taken it in "pulling left". I bought it 100 miles away from me.
They re-did it within a month (and charged him again too) and when I drove it home it was all I could do to keep it from wanting to pull me in the ditch. As soon as I got it home I put a jack under it and 3 of the 4 ball joints were literally ready to fall out. I replaced them within a couple of days and had it aligned AGAIN no more pull.
The fact they did shoddy work, didn't stand behind it and still left the guy with an unsafe truck pisses me off. They were good about leaving notes for other work all the other times he had them work on it, nothing noted about ball joints. They didn't get that bad in 1200 miles and anyone whose ever aligned a car knows that slop can't be aligned out or compensated for.
And the $849 bill for replacing brake lines . And I felt I was overcharging the last guy I did brake lines front to back on a Dakota, and charged that guy $250
Then taking advantage but not including 2 12 dollar front hoses in the job? When I did the ball joints I discovered they were shot too.
This was a "good ol dude that just said *fix it" and wrote a check for whatever number they threw out, I don't know if he even knew what they did/didn't do to his truck... Businesses like that need to be forced out.