Just want to pass this along, I'm sure most of them are good dudes and mean well, but HOLY ****.
Wife Dropped off my 17 F350 for a P2074 code. I'm a pretty decent wrench turner and know my way around vehicles & equipment, on top of having had an actual mechanic take a look at the truck. Needed a MAF sensor & parameter re-learn. Somehow (stealership) $80 in parts consisting of 2 screws on the air intake, this is $980 and 3.5 hours of shop time.
Granted if I was home I would have done this in about 4 minutes (maybe 7 with a beer).
This was the ONLY concern on this truck, and I was in a bind & the private mechanic didn't have a the ford programming access.
HOWEVER!!!!!!! $3500 in "routine maintenance" showed up on the "approval for work" estimate, no warning, no phone call saying "Hey - based on your mileage this is what ford recommends" or "Have you done any service to this truck like X,Y,Z etc etc etc" . NOTHING THAT HAS THE APPEARANCE OF HONESTY
Service Advisor sent the $4500 "estimate" to the wife with a text saying "do you approve this to start work".
FULLY BELIEVE THEY ARE TRYING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE THAT DON"T KNOW ANY BETTER. Luckily wife called me and asked, but D@MN.
DO BETTER COLLEGE STATION FORD!!!!! This is why I avoid you guys like the plague and tell everyone I know to do the same.
Wife Dropped off my 17 F350 for a P2074 code. I'm a pretty decent wrench turner and know my way around vehicles & equipment, on top of having had an actual mechanic take a look at the truck. Needed a MAF sensor & parameter re-learn. Somehow (stealership) $80 in parts consisting of 2 screws on the air intake, this is $980 and 3.5 hours of shop time.
Granted if I was home I would have done this in about 4 minutes (maybe 7 with a beer).
This was the ONLY concern on this truck, and I was in a bind & the private mechanic didn't have a the ford programming access.
HOWEVER!!!!!!! $3500 in "routine maintenance" showed up on the "approval for work" estimate, no warning, no phone call saying "Hey - based on your mileage this is what ford recommends" or "Have you done any service to this truck like X,Y,Z etc etc etc" . NOTHING THAT HAS THE APPEARANCE OF HONESTY
Service Advisor sent the $4500 "estimate" to the wife with a text saying "do you approve this to start work".
FULLY BELIEVE THEY ARE TRYING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE THAT DON"T KNOW ANY BETTER. Luckily wife called me and asked, but D@MN.
DO BETTER COLLEGE STATION FORD!!!!! This is why I avoid you guys like the plague and tell everyone I know to do the same.
