How familiar is this, you take your car in for a simple service, next thing you know the service writer tells you “hey this car shouldn’t be on the road, it’s unsafe, your brakes are shot etc. etc.” They want to bilk you for hundreds if not thousands of dollars in repair costs. What do you do next? Well for some people mechanical knowledge comes easy, for others oh say like your grandma, have no clue. Someone from the inside the industry finally got tired of these unethical tactics, and decided to write a book about.
The Great Automotive Rip-Off will be out in print in July of 2009. This is a msut read for anyone who owns a car, and wants to save money. Here is an excerpt from the author to give you an idea what to expect “Take brakes, for example. I may say you have fifty percent left on your brake lining, and another technician may say you need to have them replaced now. There are so many businesses using unethical ways to sell more parts and services than you need that it’s just become the standard of the industry. And most of the things they are doing are legal. Like I say it’s all discretionary; it’s their opinion. Most of the extra things they sell, they wouldn’t sell to their parents or put on their own cars. They know the parts they want to replace today can go many more thousands of miles before needing attention. There are so many things being sold every day to customers that they don’t really need, and it’s hard to sort out what’s true.”
Get this book in paperback form, your sony style, the kindle family, even read it from your laptop.
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