Re: VERY expensive life lesson learned...
No, I am not saying that-I'm saying that you are assuming the two are related, but there is no positive proof of the fact. You indicated in your first post that some $600.00 worth of work had to be done for "a sticker" in addition to the rear end replacement. If that work had been kept up to date, other problems might have been located early enough to avoid major repair costs.
If you do business with a mechanic that is not certified (knowingly) you save money in the short run, but you are also accepting their limitations. Maybe a certified mechanic would have caught the problem, maybe not. Maybe it was there when he did the work, maybe not. I think it is hard to blame him for something, unless you can be certain that he ignored an existing problem. If he changed a wheel cylinder that was not leaking and the axle seal was, and wasn't addressed, then he was at fault. But how do you know if that is the case?
I didn't mean my prior post to be a slam on you. Lost of folks react to car problems instead of relying on more preventative maintenance. Often this approach is cheaper and is good enough to keep a car going. I hate downtime so I do what I can to avoid it.
No, I am not saying that-I'm saying that you are assuming the two are related, but there is no positive proof of the fact. You indicated in your first post that some $600.00 worth of work had to be done for "a sticker" in addition to the rear end replacement. If that work had been kept up to date, other problems might have been located early enough to avoid major repair costs.
If you do business with a mechanic that is not certified (knowingly) you save money in the short run, but you are also accepting their limitations. Maybe a certified mechanic would have caught the problem, maybe not. Maybe it was there when he did the work, maybe not. I think it is hard to blame him for something, unless you can be certain that he ignored an existing problem. If he changed a wheel cylinder that was not leaking and the axle seal was, and wasn't addressed, then he was at fault. But how do you know if that is the case?
I didn't mean my prior post to be a slam on you. Lost of folks react to car problems instead of relying on more preventative maintenance. Often this approach is cheaper and is good enough to keep a car going. I hate downtime so I do what I can to avoid it.