Trust your mechanic

Your mechanic is like your physician or your accountant... or your lawyer (if you have a good one*).
In what way?
If you can't trust him (or her), you're in trouble.

When your mechanic makes a mistake and tells you it was an honest mistake, you need to be able to take is word for it.

If you think he actually MADE the superficial gash in your tire sidewall - the one you weren't aware of when you brought your car in to get your brakes replaced - then it is neither rude nor demeaning to suggest you go to a different mechanic.

But if he TELLS you he didn't have to put air in the front right tire, and two eye witnesses assure you AGAIN AND AGAIN that he DIDN'T in fact put air in the front right tire but only checked the pressure with the gauge, but you STILL insist you saw him put air in the aforementioned front right tire, then maybe you just need to recalculate your war strategies in the province of trust. Maybe you need to take a step back and rethink this whole "mechanics are unshaven little devils in overalls" thing.

Maybe you could pick a mechanic and give him a real running chance... then maybe, just maybe, that mechanic could develop a sense of loyalty towards you and you could get more out of him in the end.



*Please send good Gatineau-area lawyer contact info to yellow_larvae@hotmail.com