Re: [DML] Dealing with shops

[Todd Masinelli <tmasin@xxxx>]

> intentionally *slow* on your car so they can have
> fun working on it and showing it off to their
> other customers?

If you're lucky! I once needed my brake lines bled and a coolant flush, and
I took my D to the only place nearby that would touch it. After a few days,
I was told to come pick up my car. When I saw it in the lot, I almost
wondered if someone else had left their DeLorean, too...surely this wasn't
my car. The first things I noticed were the greasy handprints all over the
stainless (and I do mean *ALL* over it), the coolant that had been spilled
on the car and not cleaned up, and a warp in the top of the rear fascia from
being leaned on. When I popped the door, I saw mud all over the place
(there was enough in the grooves of the brake pedal that it filled them in
flush). There was even mud on the dash! I turned the key and the radio was
blaring a station I never listen to.

When I went back into the shop to confront the owner, he told me that he had
been recently divorced, and that my DeLorean was "a great car for a divorced
guy to drive around in. Sure gets lots of attention." He told me that he
"took it out on the highway to see what it could do, then drove it around
town for a couple of nights to turn heads." In *MY* car! Talk about
feeling violated.

I'm much more selective now when it comes to who is allowed to touch my
DeLorean!

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Todd Masinelli
VIN 6681 (Nov 81)