Car wouldn’t pass smog so the state offered a program to help pay 500 dollars in repairs. I know about cars and I knew that the catalytic converters needed to be replaced and they are pricey. They analyzed my car and told me my cats were bad which I already knew. Okay they should have stopped there. For some reason they were trying to find something else wrong with the car. No check engine light and no trouble codes, so why??? After them having it for 3 days they finally came up with a ""suspected"" fuel injector leak. Not the gasket but the injector itself. So the total he said was going to be 3000 dollars. He said the injectors needed replacement and they cost 100 dollars for each of my six cylinders and the two cats were going to cost 900 dollars each. Kept trying to tell me over and over that something caused my cats to go out and that he ""suspected"" the injectors. I don't know about you but suspecting something is the same as assuming it. I’m not willing to pay that much money on someone’s assumption. \r
So I had to pay 187 dollars for the analysis and got my car out of there took it home to look it over and found my O2 sensor wires gouged and two of my spark plug holes were cross threaded. That's not a fun thing to have to fix. Took a look at my fuel injectors and found out they were fine but took them out anyways to make sure. Bought a 30 dollar rebuild kit for my injectors, that cleans them out. All the injectors were working great. Went and order 2 cats that were 250 each and had a muffler shop weld them on for 200 bucks. So by getting my car out of there I saved a grand total of 2,270 dollars. So a mechanic specially and ""analyst"" shouldn't use the word “suspect” cause all that means is he's guessing and who has money for that? Oh and my car passed smog, yeah!\r
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