what do you do if a mechanic screws you?

Don't get all nasty yet. The car functioned properly for 300 miles. How do you expect a mechanic to verify a repair? Drive your car 500 miles to see if "something goes wrong"???

He made the repair, took it for a short drive to make sure everything seemed normal etc, then called you.

Try being a nice person for a change, and give him the chance to make it right.

My invisible friend says burn his garage down.

If its a self employed mechanic you are screwed.

Yeah I understand but this guy has been running me through the ringer. It was having problems when he gave it back to me and I knew it wasn't right. But he said it will be fine just put some miles on it and it will smoothe out. If you rebuild a motor in a car and do it right it shouldn't blow up after 300 miles. It was missing like hell and I could hear it so I'm thinking this dude just doesn't know his shit.

Buy a rebuild 3,000 t0 5,000,,,Ask him to replaced damaged one..these are titty [link to atk-engines.com]

Was it a subaru by any chance?

follow him home then go back later and burn down his house

Not saying you or the mechanic are at fault, but I do have to ask, how did you drive it in thosr 300 miles? There are break in periods and a oil change @ 500. Did he put regular oil in it or synthetic?

I was a Master L1 tech for 6 yrs.

I just bought a troy built weedeater $220 bucks. put the oil in started it, it lasted 5 min and it froze up.

took it back and got a full refund.

Will never buy there product again.

unless the mechanic is a trusted friend or family they will screw you one way or another.. thats just the way it is..

Slit their throat?

Get a change over motor from a used auto parts dealer compression test it first.
Never pay a mechanic to rebuild an engine ffs unless you can rebuild it yourself forget about it.

He probably didn't rebuild it, he probably just changed the oil and charged you for a rebuild.

Always get a crate motor - never had a problem with them !

The motor only has 80000 on it. The cylinder walls are in good shape I don't need to buy another motor. The cat clogged up and melted the rings so I cut the cat off and paid this guy 800$ to rebuild it. Now I'm worried the cylinder walls are damaged due to the knocking in the motor.

You don't know he did anything wrong. Stuff like this happens. What exactly blew up on the engine?

A clogged cat won't "burn rings"

You put oil in it?
They are 4 stroke you are not supposed to put oil in them
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"WE" don't know, that he did anything at all.

You put oil in the crank case sump chump

I guess your invisible friend doesn't know about insurance.

I find your insight and common sense approach refreshing if not surprising in this society of shoot first ask questions later. BTW I am a mechanic. Chances are the mechanic in question did not rebuild the engine himself and relied on the
expertise of the local machine shop.More than likely he took it for a few long test drives.I am sure if a complete rebuild was done there is always written warranty on the work order. Usually at LEAST 1 year 12k miles.I wonder what kind of car it was and what was actually done. How many times have I seen a customer complain about a component breaking on their car and they just had EVERYTHING done at the dealership. Turns out they had an oil change done. "But they checked everything over ! " Oh really, for $29.95 they are going to assign their top tech to do a bumper to bumper inspection including using psychic ability to see parts that are going to fail within 500 miles like a water pump , ignition coil ,etc. Heck we just put a motor in a 94 chevy worktruck , 3 days later he calls says it wont start. We check it out , the ignition module went bad. (solid state sealed transistor inside the distributor)I mean shiznit happens.OK rant off now.

lol fuck nut you probably put the oil in the fuel tank

Just the oil for the crankcase that came in a separate container. Ran straight gas in the engine.

It just rattled for a bit then died. I had bought the extended warranty for the unit. So I got the full refund and the price for the weedeater.

I may go for a Stihl.

Does it matter??????? WTF, guy. Don't tell me we got a tool on site................

You're the tool lying shill ass

Did you ever think it might have been cold?

Who decided you needed to cut the cat off?