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Originally Posted by Hitch
Yes, exactly. Timing belts are blowing engines all over the place, due to inept or untrained mechanics, not only in Chevy Cruze's. This should have been commonplace knowledge and your mechanic should have mentioned it, IF the engine were in bad shape to start with.
If the timing belt is not set up properly, then the pistons will run into the valve and destroy the head and the pistons.
I think you can easily show that it's entirely on them. I mean, if the engine was coated with oil, etc., in the first place, how the hell did the car GET there? PFM?
Hitch
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Well, exactly. There was no oil on the engine at all when we brought it in, and they even changed the oil and filter and said engine was fine. They showed us with the hood open with finger pointing what they would do on the car with a few things, it did not have oil spewing all over the place like it does now.
Their insurance agents argument that this must have been a long time issue building up because there is now oil all over the place is just stupid, makes no sense, and there way of getting out of this, or trying. We don't have money to keep fighting but have sought every avenue we can think of but most of the social service systems sound good, but don't really do that much it turns out.
The Senior Legal helpline that we reached out to several times was helpful and gave us more hope, said we had a good case, and they arranged for us to have a lawyer with the only service available they use for Florida Seniors, Rural Legal Services, but then they called and said we don't handle that type of case. They handle litigation, but that's what this is. They said they can't handle it because we didn't sign anything at mechanics, (the estimate), but those mechanics emailed us the estimate, they always get approval verbally and don't have us sign. Also, we were told from others we've consulted that it was in our favor not to sign anything since we weren't agreeing with the services performed and don't want to sign that we found any services satisfactory - you can't sign the invoice until you pay the invoice. They sent the estimate to us in email so that should count as something without us signing it. It's just stupid.
We are about ready to pull out our hair from stress.