Dishonest Car Repair Shops

Recently, the blower motor for my heater and air conditioner in my car stopped working.  I had to take my car into Gateway Kia in Quakertown, PA for an oil change anyway, so I asked them to check out the problem with the blower motor.  They told me that I needed a new wiring harness, a capacitor, and a new relay switch to the tune of a total of a little more than $500.00.

Since, I don't happen to have an extra $500.00 laying around, I decided to get my car re-checked by a mechanic I know I can trust.  I learned that the only problem was some burnt wiring around one of the plugs on the wiring harness.  All I really needed to fix the car was that plug and a length of wiring that attatched to that plug.  Unfortunately, I couldn't find any parts supplier that sold only that part and the wiring, which would have probably only cost a couple of bucks.  I did find the wiring harness, so I purchased that for $83.00 and the total cost to replace the wiring harness was $25.00.  So, for a job that Gateway Kia told me required in excesss of $500.00 to fix, the whole thing was fixed for $108.00.

It's very sad that today in America it is so difficult to find an automotive service center where the mechanics will be honest.  Maybe it isn't that their dishonest, maybe it's just that their service mechanics are poorly trained and just don't know how to do the proper repairs, so they just guess and tell you that you need to replace every part that goes inbetween point A and point B to fix a problem.

That being said, the best solution is to learn how to do your own car repairs or find someone you know you can trust (which isn't always easy.)

An Open Letter to the New Owners of My Mobile Money Pages

Dear My Mobile Money Pages Owners:  Dear you think it is unreasonable for us to expect for you to honor your commitments to your subscribers?  Do you think it is abnormal for us to expect responses from support when we complain about probelms that are your responsiblity to correct?  Do you think it is unreasonable for us to expect you to give us what we paid for and what we were promised?

You have attempted to hide your ownership of My Mobile Money Pages by keeping your domain registration transfer private, but I am giving you fair warning, I WILL find out who you are and if you don't fix all the problems that My Mobile Money Pages is having right now, I WILL take you down by any legal means necessary. You have the audicity to still be advertising, and everyone who has purchased this item is now left high and dry and can not even access any of their sites. How can you still be advertising legally, when you are not even giving your previous customers what they paid for?

Summertime Road Construction

I know it needs to be done, but every time I travel somewhere and have to get hung up in traffic for multiple extra hours, it really ticks me off.  OK, I know the deal on I-81 in Harrisburg couldn't have been avoided due to the nature of the situation, but  I'm certain a much better job could have been done guiding people around Harrisburg in the aftermath of that diesel truck explosion.  I saw signs that said "I-81 Detour follow Red Detour Signs," so I followed them, and ended up going around in a big circle and being stuck in the same place again.

Then, this last weekend, I went to Rochester, NY and I-81 in Binghamton, NY was all FUBAR because of road construction.  Why can't  you guys put up signs that say something like "Take Rte. 17 West to 390 North to Rochester," instead of letting us sit in I-81 North one-lane traffic for an hour-and-a-half.  Would that be so much to ask?  Geez Leweez!!!

I barely made it to my daughter's graduation on time thanks to the lack of helpful signage, and then to make matters even worse, there evidently was an accident on one of the highways around Rochester, which caused another traffic nightmare.

Obama Care-Who Does it Benefit

I don't know who Obama care is supposed to benefit, but it most certainly is not benefiting people in my income class.  In 2012, the total amount I had to pay out of my pocket for the entire year for doctors visits, surgery, etc was $400.00.  This year, we are only in February, and I've already had to pay MORE than $400.00 out of my own pocket.  So, I think the ONLY people who are going to benefit from Obama care are people who either shouldn't even be living in America, or people who are sponging off of the government and getting free health care that they don't deserve to have.  And WHO pays??  It is us, the hard-working middle class that is always getting the shaft in the end.  The rich have loopholes and/or they have enough money that the don't need medical benefits, and the sponges and illegals get a hand-out from the government.  As Chris Rock says "That ain't right."

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