Originally Posted by engifineer

Not going to get into trying to determine fault from this thread, but this part kind of rubbed me the wrong way:



So if he could do it himself , his time is worth nothing? Sorry man, that is straight up wrong. And $30 labor is not high at all if they have to cut and weld a new flange on. Most shops will charge you a minimum hours fee (and I dont know where either of you live, but $30 wont cover an hour of just about any type of labor where I am ... mechanics charge over $100/hr ... so $30 seems like a fair deal if it took even 30 minutes).

Again, I dont know the rest of the story, but I have dealt with people that seem to think that my time to fix THEIR bad part should be free since I did not have to pay someone else. Nope, you pay what it would reasonably cost in my area whether I do it myself or not. That is fair and square. And if he owns his own shop and did it himself, that is time he would not have been able to bill to another customer, so it is money out of his pocket. Time is not free.

Originally Posted by LostMarine

police report has been filed chris harper should be visited by symrna police shortly