RE: IML: Am I getting screwed?

["Woolf,Richard T(Contractor)" <richard.woolf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a '57 Chrysler Saratoga which needed brakes and I was charged over
$1,300. 


Richard T. Woolf
Sign Painter DPW
562-2320

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Subject: IML: Am I getting screwed?

If I wrote out all the details and the whole story it would take pages, so
here is the brief summary.  I took my '63 Custom to get new brake shoes on
the front and the rear at Midas. They called me and said that I also needed
4 new wheel/brake cylinders.  I don't know anything about brakes really, so
when they told me I was leery. I mean, the car was stopping, granted it
sounded like hell, but it was still stopping...if all of my cylinders had
gone out would the car still stop?  Whenever I went to pick her up last
night I felt really uneasy about the whole situation, they just weren't
giving me the comforting feeling that they knew what they were doing or that
something was going on.  They took her off the lift and had me test drive it
because the brakes seemed mushy to them.  I was scared to death, she
wouldn't stop and we almost wrecked. I took her back and they came up with
some crap about while bleeding the brakes in old cars sometimes the valve in
the master cylinder will go out and that I needed a new master cylinder.
The master cylinder was fine whenever I took it in there.  That, and I just
payed $846 for new shoes and the 4 wheel cylinders.  I believe I was already
screwed on the price, but I just want the input, advice and insight any of
you may have.  My boss told me that there wasn't a valve that they are
speaking of.  Please help anyway.  I want to be prepared whenever the guy
calls me about Ms. Pearl today.
Megan


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