I'm surprised they didn't recommend cleaning the fuel injectors. That
seems to be one of the favorites. I have never had mine cleaned and
have never seen any reason why they might need it, but it is often
recommended by the service writer. I quit buying new Fords at the
dealer closest to me because their service department was forever
recommending work I did not feel I needed. Scams such as "the
technician looked at your Explorer and determined the fuel injectors
need cleaning". Now how in the world did the technician do that I
wonder?

Jim, your comments? Have you found legitimate need to clean injectors
and what were the symptoms? And is the cleaning stuff they run
through them effective?

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 05:58:19 GMT, "Jim Warman"
> wrote:

>Auto parts are much like furniture, cuts of meat, generic drugs and any
>number of other comparisons. I can buy brake pads for 10 bucks.... whether I
>would actually use them or not is up for conjecture. More and more
>independant shops are opting for OEM parts because of comebacks.
>
>For the original poster.... Most shops will perform a cursory
>inspection..... both looking for the opportunity to make a sale and averting
>a catastrophic failure for the consumer. Repairing a concern while it is
>still i it's incipient stages is usually much cheaper than leaving it until
>it is too late and too inconvenient.
>
>I often recommend diff or trans services based on mileage only to find that
>these services have been performed in a reasonable time span before my
>recommendation. If I don't know the service history of the vehicle, how can
>I do otherwise???
>
>Is there a chance of oversell? Yep.... But that's not restricted to
>dealers... this is a societal problem and there's no simple fix. Most of the
>people ****ed about oversell could be accused of oversell in their own jobs.
>Profit is a heady subject.... Each and every one of us feels we deserve high
>income - we just don't wnat to contribute to someone elses high income.
>Preventive maintenance could be viewed as oversell.
>
>FWIW..... if I had a dollar for every time I told someone their brakes were
>getting thin only to have them get mad at ME......... Can you be sure that I
>have never shut my mouth thinking that a known jerk-off deserves to buy new
>rotors????
>
>