Good to hear! I got rid of my first set of hood pins because they looked like ugly warts on the hood. These looked really clean and as a bonus they covered the holes from the first set of hood pins.
Cam (Grandma) please do, let someone enjoy that car.
Scott, priorities change...........i get that.
Jeff, you just got your fucking car, someone kick him in the balls!!!!!
AND they wanted $100 per plug
Book time is 1.8hrs. Most dealer charge 1hr/$100 per broken plug. To quote that up front is insane.
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Keep your current ride - I love how it looks (even when you had the P-dip on it)
Name the dealership. Everyone needs to stay away.
A book time of 1.8hrs means they'll quote 2.5hrs for that job, plus the 8 plugs at $25-30/plug, labor of $100-120/hr, easily over $500 without assuming any broken plugs.
What I don't understand is how they'd know that the plugs were fouled (unless the tech's butt-dyno detected a rough-running engine and was recommending plugs based on that).
Also, they had no idea the owner changed them before and used the "high-temp anti-seize" on them, so they're quoting what they're quoting trying to cover their ass up front.
I was a writer for a while and told customers up front the least it would be, but also how much it could go to if all 8 plugs broke. So I gave the customer 2 different prices
I don't wanna name names. Lets just say it was probably the biggest Ford dealer on 50 in Fairfax (VA). It's a shame too. I bought the car new from those guys and they'd been great to me ever since, never had any problems taking it there in the 8 years I've been doing business with them. I don't know if its the new service advisor (my old one changed service teams but sits 2 desks away) or a new mechanic or new management trying to get them to aggressively drum up service.
Not knowing about the hi-temp anti-seize is true and them doing some CYA is a fair assumption. And quoting best and worst-case prices is an honest and respectable way to do business, and I'm really sketched out that they wouldn't. Quoting $800 up front (their labor rate is $110, btw)...if it all went easy I doubt I would have seen any of the difference back in my pocket.
I left this part out too in my OP -- they also said my TB was dirty and recommended a $200 BG induction service. So apparently they also had time in their multi-point inspection to pull off my CAI and check the butterflies too (admittedly they were just starting to accumulate some sludge).
Thinking of selling mine also for a cheaper classic.