Oregon City Car Care

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I brought my truck to Oregon City car care to have the brakes bled and the tranny leak stopped since they rebuilt it less than 50 miles ago. After leaving the truck with them, I was called and told my cam was flat and I needed a complete valve job which would probably require two new heads since the existing ones on the sbc block were 1966 power paks. They charged me for a compression test and said that the number 1 cylinder lobe on the cam was flat with an "estimate" of $1200 plus parts. I declined and told them to simply fix the tranny leak and bleed the brakes ...AND do NOT do any work that will put the bill over $200 without calling me for authorization. Upon picking up the car I was presented a bill for $300. The truck was still leaking tranny fluid and the brake lines still had air in them. I forked over the $190 I had in cash just to get my truck back from these pretenders.
After taking my truck to a reputable shop, I was told that there was no way that Oregon City Car care could have done a compression test without removing the headers. The cam did need replacing but it was cylinder #6 (showing me the cam) that was bad and the spark plug to 6 was actually the only plug that could not be removed without removing the header meaning that if OC Car Care would have actually did what they said that they did, they would have been able to correctly diagnose the problem. The reputable shop verified that the brake lines still had alot of air in them after they bled them for me so I took my receipt back to the owner (Gary) at Oregon City Car Care and asked what I had paid for since the compression test was performed (showing him the cam), the brakes were not bled and the tranny was still leaking. He said he look into it and get back to me. I told him I was willing to pay for any work performed but I am not willing to pay for work that was only said to have been performed. I want my money back but Terry didn't ever call me back I have heard nothing from Terry since (big surprise?) even though I have spoke to him face-to-face twice now about this. When I was little my momma told me to watch out for the crooks and thieves in this world and now I'm giving you the same warning. I landed in some quicksand along life's trail and just telling you where it was that I found it. FYI-I'm not the only one online squawking about their dishonesty

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