Thanks for the lesson, Arc. I honestly thought from the legislation and "enlightenment" of the US in past years that this wasnt a problem anymore.

Mandee, hope the SC thing gets figged out.

It's unfortunate that sort of stuff goes on; Meineke Muffler told my cousin Sandy she needed 2 front struts and an alignment ($1100.00 :rolleyes: ). I told her to leave immediately, and I'd take care of it for her. I put in two complete strut assemblies for less than $400, and sent her to a tire shop I deal with for the alignment. She was quite happy!

okay so just talked to the manager he told me he is peronally picking my car up from the service department monday and taking it some where else to be checked out he said if it is the supercharger he has a couple options for me one being to pick out a dfferent car
:-( i dont want that though i love my car..he seems to be anxious to make it right with me stating he isnt like other car places, he is knows it was pre existing.... i kept stressing how much i want to keep it..he also told me he personally appraised the car when it came in and it was an one owner owned by an elderly man who wanted a truck.. so i have to be patient it just sux not knowing....and in reply to the post about chicks racing i get that alot from guys thinking they will beat me or just bowing out.. i have no limits before my dad past away i remember him telling me that..

i know a lil about cars and definetly have common sense to know not to just hnd over 1500.00 which would be my part without getting more opinions and even then i wouldnt go through them if i can bypass it and keep my warranty..

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Let me get this straight. Your warrentee has deductable of half? So a $1,000 repair will still cost you $500? Now I see why changing a S/C and sway bars is est. at $3,000. Because by the time you add in dealer parts costs (over inflated to start)and labor at about $80-110 your looking at roughly $1500.

But unless your S/C was empty of oil and the bearings are fried. Slim chance. Even if the oil was never changed 98% of the time the nylon coupler is bad and needs to be replaced. $50 for parts (including oil)and about on the high side two hours of labor. But very easy DIY job.

I hope I got the wrong idea on your warrentee or you didn't have to pay for it cause that is one of the lamest I've seen.

i havent paid anything yet..the used car manager is picking my car up from their service department and is taking it to another place for second opinion...my warranty is half tho..

I assume when they were talking a bad supercharger, that when they said that that would be like chinese to you, even if they didn't know what was wrong, probably the coupler. Figuring if we say "bad supercharger" she'll just say "Ok" fix it. I bet half or most them don't even know what the hell the coupler fix is anyways.

Half of 3000 is still way too much to pay, in my opinion.

Half of half of half of half of 3,000 will put you in the ball park range, and that is still high, at $187.5 DIY.

i completely agree and i am scared they wont fix it and just want to throw me in a different car just gotta wait till tommorrow

That sucks... I hope it all works out for ya.

Btw... What kind of noise is it making? Just curious because depending on the type of noise it could be easy(coupler) or hard(bearings) to fix.

why not just get a new blower from ed morad? im sure there are some local guys around that could replace it for free.

Why we don't even know exactly what it's doing. Chances are just a coupler. How many times have we heard on here before dealer says S/C is bad need a new one when all it was was the coupler?

Quite a few.

ok so the noise it is making is when you turn the car on after about 5 seconds you hear a sort of grinding noise once you put it in drive it stops but then again after 10 seconds you can hear it again BUT not as bad however the noise isnt really loud even at its loudest... the used car manager made an appointment at another shop for tomorrow he drove it today and couldnt hear the noise but anyway i will know more tomorrow keeping fingers crossed because i really really want to keep this car