[John K.]

In my experience, trusting an auto mechanic can be a difficult decision. I have had good and bad experiences. My mechanic in Virginia turned out to be bad. He replaced my alternator with a ‘new’ model that died within a month. He also took a deposit on work that he never did, and refused to pay me back. On the other hand, my ‘new’ alternator died while I was moving to New Jersey, and I wound up having to get a mechanic in a small rural Virginia town to replace it. It would have been very easy for the mechanic to take advantage of the situation, but he charged a fair price and bent over backward to help.

Unfortunately, I have to say that my bad experiences outnumber my good experiences, so I tend to distrust mechanics. In addition to personal experience, I can point to any number of undercover news programs that show examples of mechanics purposely damaging a vehicle to get more business, or charging a customer for work not needed or services not rendered. All of this has contributed to a stereotype that I have to resist. I can imagine that the experiences of others are similar.

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Name : John K., Gender : M, Age : 27, City : Cranford, State : NJ, Country : United States, Occupation : Chemical Engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,