Sneaky Mechanics, Spit and Shine Technique
How many times have we seen this trick being pulled off? The mechanic tells you something in your car must be replaced, like the starter motor or maybe some other obscure car part we haven’t heard of and instead of replacing that perfectly fine, functioning part, the mechanic merely removes it, gives it a good scrubbing and polishing so it will look like a new replaced part, and puts it back in your car with none the wiser. Car parts which are singled out for the spit-shine trick are those which can be easily removed by hand. Batteries are just some of these “prime targets”. Some shops will not even bother to do anything about it. Instead, they will tell you that they have replaced the part with one that was refurbished (thus explaining why it doesn’t look that shiny and new).