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From: dr_jeff on 9 Dec 2009 20:04 Devil's Advocate wrote: > On my 93 Corolla, I asked Midas how much it would cost to pull the > instrument panel out and change all the bulbs behind it. They said $150! > > Seriously? > > Whew. > > Is this something that's not so hard to do myself??? Seems a little cheap to me. It's a lot of work. Are you really thinking about letting Midas do work like this? Do you really think they won't mess something up?
From: Devil's Advocate on 9 Dec 2009 20:44 dr_jeff <utz(a)msu.edu> wrote : > Devil's Advocate wrote: >> On my 93 Corolla, I asked Midas how much it would cost to pull the >> instrument panel out and change all the bulbs behind it. They said >> $150! >> >> Seriously? >> >> Whew. >> >> Is this something that's not so hard to do myself??? > > Seems a little cheap to me. It's a lot of work. > > Are you really thinking about letting Midas do work like this? Do you > really think they won't mess something up? > Who's "they"? They're individual people, not a collective. Why wouldnt I think anyone else might not mess it up?
From: Devil's Advocate on 9 Dec 2009 20:45 dr_jeff <utz(a)msu.edu> wrote : >> How can a car company design something that can cost you $150 to >> change a light bulb??? > > That was *all* the light bulbs. However, the priority of the cars > companies is selling cars, not cheap repairs on the cars. There are 4-5 bulbs in the dash instrument panel. Being it's some work to change one, the rest of them have been in there since 1993 too, so why not change them all? I didn't say all the bulbs in the car, just in the instrument panel.
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 9 Dec 2009 20:58 On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:04:16 -0500, dr_jeff wrote: > Devil's Advocate wrote: >> On my 93 Corolla, I asked Midas how much it would cost to pull the >> instrument panel out and change all the bulbs behind it. They said $150! >> >> Seriously? >> >> Whew. >> >> Is this something that's not so hard to do myself??? > > Seems a little cheap to me. It's a lot of work. It ain't that much. I can do it in an hour. > > Are you really thinking about letting Midas do work like this? Do you > really think they won't mess something up?
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 9 Dec 2009 20:59 On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:11:13 -0600, FatterDumber& Happier Moe wrote: >> On my 93 Corolla, I asked Midas how much it would cost to pull the >> instrument panel out and change all the bulbs behind it. They said $150! >> >> Seriously? >> >> Whew. >> >> Is this something that's not so hard to do myself??? >> >> > That damn under the dash and behind the dash work is not anyones > favorite thing to do. If it's just the instrument panel itself, it can be done from the driver's seat with the radio on...
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