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a friend of mine recently had the leaky intake gasket problem on her '00 chevy malibu. she took her car into a local shop had it changed and then weaks later she started hearing a loud knock so she took her car into get an oil change where the serviceman said her car had no oil. when she took her car back to the mechanic who changed the intake gasket he said the car is about to throw a rod and he wanted $3000 to rebuild the motor. my question is while changing the intake gasket shouldn't he have seen that there were problems developing with the pushrods and why wasn't their any oil. it seems to me that if the rod knocking is due to a mechanic who did wrong that she should take it to someone to fix at his expense.

a friend of mine recently had the leaky intake gasket problem on her '00 chevy malibu. she took her car into a local shop had it changed and then weaks later she started hearing a loud knock so she took her car into get an oil change where the serviceman said her car had no oil. when she took her car back to the mechanic who changed the intake gasket he said the car is about to throw a rod and he wanted $3000 to rebuild the motor. my question is while changing the intake gasket shouldn't he have seen that there were problems developing with the pushrods and why wasn't their any oil. it seems to me that if the rod knocking is due to a mechanic who did wrong that she should take it to someone to fix at his expense.

If her replaced the head gasket, he had to take the head off and drain the oil. Sounds like the mechanic forget to add the oil. You can really get em with that, its the mechanics responsibilty to see that the car run better then when he got into it.:2cents:

a friend of mine recently had the leaky intake gasket problem on her '00 chevy malibu. she took her car into a local shop had it changed and then weaks later she started hearing a loud knock so she took her car into get an oil change where the serviceman said her car had no oil. when she took her car back to the mechanic who changed the intake gasket he said the car is about to throw a rod and he wanted $3000 to rebuild the motor. my question is while changing the intake gasket shouldn't he have seen that there were problems developing with the pushrods and why wasn't their any oil. it seems to me that if the rod knocking is due to a mechanic who did wrong that she should take it to someone to fix at his expense.

A car will not run weeks without oil. Maybe the oil filter or nut wasn't tight which caused the oil to disappear. It must of had oil when it left the mechanics otherwise it would have knocked like crazy.

Not really, it'll run a few miles before shit starts hitting the fan. So what are you going to do?