Hey I need your advice. I have a 2000 Volvo XC that I should have gotten rid of months ago. I found a mechanic that only works on Volvos because I wanted someone that would know how to fix my car and not complain about it because it is a Volvo. Long story short, within 9 months and thousands of dol…

oldtimer 11, Kerry wrote, “I requested my mechanic to have it fixed.” I took that to mean Kerry authorized the repair. irlandes, my political remark might be inappropriate, but I noticed you didn’t say it was incorrect. I apologize. I couldn’t resist the obvious analogy.

Telling someone to pound sand isn’t politically correct either even if you say please.

Has politics been made off limits for jokes?

Towing a car to your mechanic indicates you want your car fixed, it doesn’t mean “regardless of what it costs” unless you say that.

Really, oldtimer 11? You want to quibble about semantics? Whether you say “fix it” when you drop it off, or say “fix it” when the mechanic tells you the diagnosis, saying “fix it” is an authorization to FIX IT. When I have my car towed to the mechanic, it is because it want the problem diagnosed.…

It wasn’t supposed to be a tea party analogy. My analogy compared the OP’s reluctance to pay for an authorized repair to our legislatures’ reluctance to honor debt already incurred. The tea party part was a joke. I don’t take offense to irlandes telling me to pound sand. I don’t think it was int…

The argument could be made that “Fix it” means “Fix it,” which includes “figure out what is wrong with it and then fix it,” not “throw parts at on the off chance that it gets fixed and then after you throw parts at it, discover that more parts need to be thrown at it.” I also have an issue with him…

Well I’m going to be contrary. The OP said to fix it but the mechanic obviously didn’t. He had a wrong diagnosis from the start or there were multiple problems. That’s what you pay mechanics for, to diagnose and repair problems. I think at the very least, the labor charge should go away. I hav…

I have never worked on a car and invested more parts and labor than the car was worth if abandoned. Over the years I have acquired many cars that the owners decided they could do without. Often they signed over the title to me. Some required jumping through hoops at the court house.

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cdaquila August 1, 2011, 4:16pm 10

I’ll weigh in here and say that I don’t think the Tea Party analogy was obvious, given that it was a question about something pretty unrelated. It’s not to say it’s unacceptable to joke about politics, but this didn’t start out as a political discussion. However, I also think irlandes could have stopped short of telling Whitey to go pound sand. Just sayin’.

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