I brought my car in to get my fuel pump replaced a little over a year ago. Dana quoted me $1200 and charged me $1300, which isn't crazy. When I got my car back it was leaking gas, so I called him back and he scheduled me for a week or two out (which always seems to be the case at this place) and I assumed he would fix it for free because I paid him $1300 and I get my car back spewing gas everywhere. Seems like something that would be covered. Wrong. Charged me like $200 to swap a hose clamp. Whatever. At least my car is fixed now. Wrong. Still spewing gas everywhere. So I called him back and told him he didn't fix what I just paid him to fix. Okay. Scheduled me for a week or two out again. Definitely covered this time, right? I paid him to fix the gas leak and he didn't fix the gas leak. Wrong. This time it's like $300 to actually swap out the cracked fuel line.
Fast forward 11 months and the fuel pump goes again, so I call Norton's and ask if it's under warranty. Dana says he'll warranty the pump, but not the labor. Okay, that's probably a better deal than I'll get somewhere else, so I wait the prescribed week or two and take it back to Norton's. $900 later and I have a new fuel pump. This one lasts 3 weeks. 3 weeks. So I call back Dana again and say, "Three weeks is covered, right?" "Yes. Bring it in next Tuesday" So I get it towed there after the week wait and Dana calls me Friday afternoon and says, "I can't keep buying fuel pumps for this thing. They're not warrantied. How about you buy it?" So at this point I'm a little pissed because he knew for a week that I was bringing my car in there and then had it for a full week before he even thought about buying the part he needed to fix the thing. So I go online and everything I see has limited warrantees on fuel pumps. Like you need to swap out the fuel filter for example. So I don't know where Dana is getting these fuel pumps with no warrantees, but he charged me $400 for the first one, which is 3 or 4 times more than these fuel pumps I'm seeing with limited warrantees. So I supply the part and wait and wait and wait for over 2 more weeks and I'm like "Dana really doesn't care about getting this repair done because he's doing it for free." Wrong again. I show up yesterday to pick up my car and he charges me $500. I say, "You told me this was covered and I had to supply my own part." He says I misunderstood him.
Keep in mind I have been going to Norton's for years because it was close to home and convenient for me, so this is how Dana treats his long term loyal customers.
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