RE: IML: Am I getting screwed?

[<mopar413@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Did they replace drums or turn them.?? Really need to know more of what they did.  If they replace the master cycl, wheel cycl and shoes only, and adjusted them it should not have been more than $400.00.  If they replaced drums then you could be looking at $800.00 with the rest of the brake work.  Midas is the last place I would go to.  Find an independe shop with an older mechaic and checck with them  
> 

> 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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