Friday, February 29, 2008

Fuel Pump Frakas

This recaps the expensive story of our car repair. Mike at Alpha-Omega replaced a fuel pump on my Chev Suburban and a week later the car failed to start with the same symptoms as before. We were out of town so took it to another mechanic that traced the problem to a bad wiring splice close to the pump.

When I told Mike what happened and showed him the corroded/burnt wire he denied that the part was ever in the car, said that it was the wrong size to connect to the fuel pump, and accused the other garage of incompetence and defrauding us.

The next day I checked the connector and found out that it mates perfectly to the old fuel pump.

Mike was not interested in a fair settlement. He wanted only to deny and accuse.

I won't waste more time on this and will take it as a lesson not to deal with this guy again.

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