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First off I'm a little anal.. any time I leave any car I own with a shop of any sort I document how many miles are on it when I drop it off.
To start the story in fall 2015 I took my car to the Lander's Ford in Benton, AR to have the rear main seal replaced due to a leak. When I dropped the car off it had just under 1/2 tank of gas in it and when I picked it up the fuel light was on and the car had 75 more miles on it. That's a lot of gas to burn through in 75 miles, and 75 miles seemed like a lot of test driving for a rear main seal. Me being the non-confrontational type just let it go.
This year my rear main seal failed again and the car had to go back but now I have a hard-wired dashcam in the car that I got for christmas last year and it automatically turns on and off with the car.
When I picked up the car the mileage was much less. Only about 20 miles since I dropped it off but I decided to review the dashcam videos anyway to satisfy my curiosity. What I found I think could probably be classified as "abuse" to my car.
I also typed out rough transcripts for each video as I plan to send them to the service manager as soon as possible.
Video 1
@ 1:02 Engine reved 2 times to what sounded like redline 1 rev a bit lower, then a 2nd person exits from the garage.
@ 1:34 Car revved again.
@ 1:45 the driver says he previously did the rear main seal so is apparenly is the same tech who worked on it last year who put 75 miles on the car.
Video 2
@ 1:20 guy outside of the car who appears from conversation to be the tech who was originally driving says "Mash on that throttle see if this thing will spit some flames." then the guy in car proceeds to rev the engine to what sounded like redline 4 times.
@ 1:45 Guy in the car spots the dash cam.
@ 2:05 One asks the other "did you drive it very hard?", other responds "I haven't driven it at all, I just drove it over here"
@ 2:25 "Hm, I'd be careful with that" followed by an inaudible conversation outside of the car.
@ 2:49 "Just be careful with it.. givin' it hell and be like.." and the other guy laughs.
In a subsequent video that I did not include. The car is moved into the shop and the dashcam appears to be inspected with a flashlight for a few minutes.
To start the story in fall 2015 I took my car to the Lander's Ford in Benton, AR to have the rear main seal replaced due to a leak. When I dropped the car off it had just under 1/2 tank of gas in it and when I picked it up the fuel light was on and the car had 75 more miles on it. That's a lot of gas to burn through in 75 miles, and 75 miles seemed like a lot of test driving for a rear main seal. Me being the non-confrontational type just let it go.
This year my rear main seal failed again and the car had to go back but now I have a hard-wired dashcam in the car that I got for christmas last year and it automatically turns on and off with the car.
When I picked up the car the mileage was much less. Only about 20 miles since I dropped it off but I decided to review the dashcam videos anyway to satisfy my curiosity. What I found I think could probably be classified as "abuse" to my car.
I also typed out rough transcripts for each video as I plan to send them to the service manager as soon as possible.
Video 1
@ 1:02 Engine reved 2 times to what sounded like redline 1 rev a bit lower, then a 2nd person exits from the garage.
@ 1:34 Car revved again.
@ 1:45 the driver says he previously did the rear main seal so is apparenly is the same tech who worked on it last year who put 75 miles on the car.
Video 2
@ 1:20 guy outside of the car who appears from conversation to be the tech who was originally driving says "Mash on that throttle see if this thing will spit some flames." then the guy in car proceeds to rev the engine to what sounded like redline 4 times.
@ 1:45 Guy in the car spots the dash cam.
@ 2:05 One asks the other "did you drive it very hard?", other responds "I haven't driven it at all, I just drove it over here"
@ 2:25 "Hm, I'd be careful with that" followed by an inaudible conversation outside of the car.
@ 2:49 "Just be careful with it.. givin' it hell and be like.." and the other guy laughs.
In a subsequent video that I did not include. The car is moved into the shop and the dashcam appears to be inspected with a flashlight for a few minutes.