Originally Posted by
OLDMAN
The mechanic would be paying for that. I had a tire changed at a garage a long time ago and the wheel came off about 20 miles down the road, the garage paid for the damages to the car.
Except the mechanic is a personal friend of the family who installed my transmission for $150. Honda would have charged about $1200. I'd rather keep him as a friend and a source of cheap labor than take him to court over a stupid $600 for a mistake where relatively very little damage occured.