I was selling my car. A potential buyer asked me if he could run it by a mechanic to have it checked out. I was fine with his request, especially since I had already had the inspection done and had it gone over by my mechanic. The guy came back and said that he had taken it to Mercer. They told him that the CV joints were bad and wanted nearly a thousand bucks to fix it. There was absolutely no indication whatsoever that the CV's were bad, no noise when turning or anything. The only way they could have checked the CV's without hearing them would have been to take the thing apart. The guy was only gone for 30 minutes, not nearly enough time. They were just coming up with trumped up repairs to swindle their customers.
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