REPAIRMEN MAY GYP YOU-1951
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune, "the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with 1,700 calls on repair shops." "And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass this book with indifference Whatever your experience with repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here. You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say: 'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't think of any subject for research that touches more people. Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and over, in amounts saved through your wisdom." "There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were "the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing machines used by some shops to impress customers." "The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting," remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests, is alarmingly convincing."
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune,
"the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a
nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the
American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished
make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked
more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with
1,700 calls on repair shops."
"And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass
this book with indifference Whatever your experience with
repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here.
You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say:
'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And
you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't
think of any subject for research that touches more people.
Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and
over, in amounts saved through your wisdom."
"There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore
Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were
"the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing
machines used by some shops to impress customers."
"The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting,"
remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room
for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost
laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests,
is alarmingly convincing."
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58 <strong>REPAIRMEN</strong> WILL GET <strong>YOU</strong><br />
had been replaced, but he did not mention it.<br />
"What did you find wrong?" I asked. "I had<br />
to clean the carburetor." "But this car was just<br />
overhauled, and I'm sure the carburetor was<br />
cleaned." (Actually the carburetor is brand-new<br />
and weVe been buying the best grades of Ethyl<br />
gas.) "What would make it get dirty<br />
so soon?"<br />
"Oh, they get that way." And he charged $2.00<br />
for "cleaning" a new carburetor.<br />
CASE 38. New York City. When the mechanic<br />
came back after testing the car around the block<br />
he said, "I have bad news for you. Your clutch<br />
plate is<br />
gone. The whole assembly was red hot."<br />
I asked how much that would cost. He said:<br />
"$23.50." I said I didn't have the money with<br />
me;<br />
could I drive the car home in that condition?<br />
"Yes, but the farther you<br />
drive it the more<br />
harm you'll do." This mechanic did not look at<br />
the clutch; and the clutch since then has done<br />
over 27,000 miles without trouble.<br />
In New York and vicinity only two out of sixteen<br />
garagemen refrained from trying to overcharge<br />
or swindle this woman driver. The bills
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