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In article <perry-190794150232@bperry.gsfc.nasa.gov>, perry@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brendan Perry) writes:
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-> Ok, first I'd like to thank everyone for all the advice, and I'll 
-> certainly follow some of the leads. But, since I posted yesterday
-> I've gotten even more aggravated with the place I took the car to,
-> namely the Citgo at the corner of Greenbelt Road and Cherrywood Lane,
-> in front of the Giant near Beltway Plaza. The Greenbelt Citgo.
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-> They failed my '65 Ford Falcon for 4 things:
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[a bunch of bad business dealings deleted]

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-> So, what can I do? I don't think they even tuned the car, but charged
-> me $29 for a tune-up, then they charged me $19 for a bolt, and I'm
-> afraid they are going to keep nit-picking and failing me for things
-> I'd already PASSED on, like the exhaust. I want to report them to the
-> BBB, but I don't think it'll help. I also don't think they'd be convinced
-> they are doing a lousy job if I told them I and all my friends won't even
-> buy GAS from them again. This is all from a person who rebuilt this car
-> myself. I KNOW what goes where on the car. I want satisfaction, recourse,
-> and a new mechanic that can do a good, honest job on a well running,
-> unbelievably simple car (with a vanilla 6-cylinder engine). All I ever
-> NEED is check-ups and things I can't do myself (like alignments and
-> valve-jobs). God, if they do this to ME, and I KNOW what my engine is
-> like, what do they do to other people?
-> 

As far as I know, you don't have to take your car back to the same
station for reinspection if you fail the 1st time. Take your car
elsewhere, but be sure to take the inspection form from the Citgo with
you. Then maybe they'll just reinspect the items you failed on.

I've never done any business with the garages in Greenbelt, but I
suspect the problems you're having with them might be due to the fact
that there is an overwhelming number of young automotive-naive college
students in the area who they can easily gouge without worrying about
losing business. Each year a new crop of suckers rolls into town. Take
your car to some neighborhood not known to be frequented by college
students, and I bet that you'll get better service.