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runninW.O.T.
08-27-2007, 05:56 PM
Never hurt to ask!
ABV
08-28-2007, 10:28 AM
I think it would be like sending back a steak that's undercooked at a restaurant. Although it probably wouldn't happen, I'd be nervous about the cook (or mechanic in your case) messing with it somehow. If it were me I'd just leave well enough alone.
xveganxcowboyx
08-28-2007, 11:51 AM
It sounds like a near concensus that I shouldn't expect anything so I don't plan to get my hopes up. I'll ask just in case, but that will be after the work is done when I go to pick up the car.

My understanding is that the mechanics that do recall work are paid by the job and not the hour and they all jump at the chance if they get it. Hopefully they would be respectable enough to treat my car well.
blageo23
08-28-2007, 12:06 PM
I think it would be like sending back a steak that's undercooked at a restaurant. Although it probably wouldn't happen, I'd be nervous about the cook (or mechanic in your case) messing with it somehow. If it were me I'd just leave well enough alone.

But that all comes down to how you ask. I work in a restaurant and if someone is being nice about it I have NO problem giving it back to the cooks and telling them to make it right. but if someone is being a dickhead then that just pisses me off. But at the restaurant I work at we dont mess with peoples food which I think is a good thing.
Hoffer00
08-30-2007, 12:14 AM
You could turn it in to your insurance company and they will cover the tow. If you get them the reciept.(No it doesn't increase your premiums)
If you have full coverage it should be covered.
xveganxcowboyx
08-30-2007, 12:23 AM
Good timing, I was just about to update this thread. Apparently I owe them for the tow to the dealer so I'm definitely not going to ask about the first one, lol. They originally told me it would be covered, but I'm thinking the actual recall work is paid for by corporate, but the tow is paid for by the dealer.

I like the insurance idea. I don't have full coverage, but I do have $50 tow reimbursement and I can't seem to find my original receipt. I'll just submit the second one. That will drop my total cost of a new transfer case to under $200. Pretty damn cheap however you slice it.