I went down to Car Clinic today to take some pictures of our J30t and collected our personal belongings from the car. It seems that the only sensible thing to do is to stop investing anymore money into the car and look forward to something more “long lasting.”
I thought Tibor was going to charge me labor and time for checking out what went wrong this time. But he told me I didn’t owe him anything — he didn’t want to charge me for the same problem twice even though he’d already taken the time and effort to examine the transmission and explained to me exactly what went wrong. Nice! Any other mechanic would have told me it’d cost me time and labor.
And then I asked if I could leave the car there for potential Craigslist buyers to come by and check out the car at his shop so that I don’t have to haul it. And he’s more than OK with that idea, too! Now I understand why a couple of online forums so highly recommend his shop… honest, friendly and pleasant to work with. I might have to give him a nice bottle of wine someday!
JASE, maybe you oughta bring the van to my mechanic for a 2nd opinon! 🙂