Rant: my buddy swore my truck sounded fine, then the shop quoted me $2,100 two days later
Last Tuesday my friend Mike kept saying the grinding noise in my 2011 Ranger was just a heat shield rattling, so I let it ride another two days. Thursday morning I dropped it at the shop on Colfax, and the guy called back with bad news: the pinion bearing was shot and it chewed up the gears, $2,100 out the door. I showed Mike the receipt and all he said was "well, it didn't sound that bad to me." Here's my honest question for this group: when a friend gives you car advice that ends up costing you two grand, do you say something or just eat it and never ask them again?