Hey everyone,

I’m a young adult woman and I try to maintain my car as much as possible without letting things get to failure to take action. Undecided my rear breaks could use a pad/rotor change and I had the front ones done already. I went to mechanics and after 2.5 hours he tells me he can’t calibrate my Mazda because my battery is too low and to come back after it’s changed and that it would take him 5-10 minutes to calibrate. I go to the dealership the next day and they tell me I need a break flush. I denied that service as I had paid extra on top of brake pad/rotor change to get the brake flush at the other mechanic.

So now I’m wondering did he just charge me and not do it? The dealership also came back and said that whoever installed my brakes didn’t do a good job and that’s why I’m seeing all these lights on my dashboard ( they were not there before the brake change).

I go back to the mechanic the next day and ask him if the brake flush was even done because the dealership said otherwise. He said no problem I’ll do it again. Okay so it was never done in the first place??? He’s had my car for 2 days now trying to figure out how to calibrate the brakes and now says he will have to charge me to change the calipers. And that they can just stop working out of the blue. I didn’t have any issues coming in and now all of a sudden there’s this.

Am I being complicated? I feel like he’s playing me and idk if it has to do with me being a girl. I just needed brakes and pads changed. (Last Thursday) and I still don’t have my car back since this Wednesday.

  • Gunk_Olgidar@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    In my personal experience, the really bad mechanics will play anyone otherwise uninformed regardless of gender as long as they have a credit card.

    Presuming that your mechanic is incompetent/dishonest, my advice is:

    Stop work at your mechanic and have the car towed to the dealer and pay them whatever to get it fixed properly.

    Dealers don’t fuck around with people’s brakes … they are way too big a financial target and lawyers will line up to sue them blind if someone gets hurt because of a botched brake job. If your dealer finds damage (stripped bleeders?) ask them to document it for you. Then if you choose to seek relief from the mechanic you’ll never use again, you have a bit more than just your say-so.