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The Dodge dealer's done with our bodywork repairs, but says to pass inspection the car needs a new air filter and new wiper blades. Now the air filter I can understand, but we just replaced the wiper blades a few months ago... I have difficulty believing they could be that worn that fast. They seemed to be working fine to us.
In other news, our phone lines must like us today. We're getting a good 24 kilobits. I can't remember the last time we got a transfer rate that [relatively speaking] good.
UPDATE: They claim one of the wiper blades is torn. It wasn't torn when we dropped the car off, but I have no doubt that if it isn't torn now, it will be by the time I get a chance to look at it. And because of the state inspection system, they have us over a barrel. Grrr......
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Seriously, every time I used to take the Jimmy in for an oil change at one of the major outlets, they'd do a "oh,and your wiper blades are shot" routine. I think it's part of a pre-prepared script. It mattered not if they had just been replaced a few months back. I would piss them off, when I'd say "Oh, I'll just replace them myself, they're cheap..." And didn't replace them. Well, funny thing, but I had to take the car to my mechanic (honest one, whom I have a great relationship with--he likes my hobbies)a few weeks after one of these wiper blade incidents. Mentioned it to him. He looked at the wipers and said "I thought so, it's that scam again. Nothing wrong with the wipers." So be aware.
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rainedpoured. But I'm quite certain that if I'd questioned it and asked to see the blades before I approved replacing them, by the time I got down to the dealer, sure enough, one of the blades would be torn.