Garage has sripped my car without asking

forgotmyname

He could smell the water? But if a gasket leaked he would also smell the water would he not?

Garages are not psychic. They can guess a price but unless they actually do some diagnostic work they wont know for sure. And to check the waterpump it requires stripping some parts. So its just as easy to replace the parts than refit the faulty ones. Did you really want to pay him almost as much to not sort the job?

If i were a garage its payup or no car.

Do you want to save £20 or so and refit the old cambelt thats possibly had hot water spraying onto it?

Which may break on the way home and destroy the engine?

C_Mababejive

Its very easy to get paranoid about tut tradesmen when we are presented with so many bad examples by parasites such as Dom Littlewood and the DSS fraudster on the BBC. The vast majority are perfectly honest and trying to make a living. Have a little trust.