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[unixronin]

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.

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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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[bbwoof.livejournal.com]

Don't challenge the mechanic. Simply tell him that you will take care of that little matter before you have the vehicle inspected.

And don't give that particular mechanic any further business.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

True, we could have done that. Except we'd already asked them to inspect the car for us after the bodywork got done (which they did a nice job on, by the way), so they were already part way through it, and we've been meaning for at least the past month to take it so another particular shop to get it inspected and not getting to it, or not managing to get there early enough to get it in. (The inspection sticker actually expired in February. We're lucky we haven't gotten a ticket.) And, if truth be told, I was just too frazzled and overloaded to think of it.

(Interestingly, it just occurred to me that "the other shop" said they needed a copy of the registration to be able to inspect it. The dealer didn't ask for the registration, they just went ahead and did the inspection.)