Ok well first the good news: The bumper and fender are fixed from my accident and the wheel has been replaced with a brand new oem one.
Now the bad news: They called me this morning to tell me my car would be ready for pick up this afternoon. So I go, look everything over, and am thrilled I'm getting my car back after almost 3 weeks of being in the shop. So I'm driving to the rental car place with the rental car agent driving the rent car behind me. I go over 25mph and hear this god awful squeal/squeaking coming from the wheel that was hit in the accident. I called the person behind me (i'm a personal friend of hers) and she tells me the wheel is wobbling like crazy. Well I wanted to see this for myself but she can't drive stick so I called the shop and was like WTH?? The guy handling my claim told me to drive it back asap, they took a look at it and determined that the axle needs to be replaced. I asked why they didn't find this earlier, and he tells me they were in such a rush to get my car back to me that they didn't have time to take it for a drive!!
So my question is, how long do you think it would take a professional with all the right tools to replace an axle assuming they have one in stock? And when I installed my gears I used a different gear oil other than stock, do I need to let them know? And I'm assuming they're going to have to tear the rear end apart and put it back together? If so I'm going to be pissed if they screw it up, I have to drive the thing out of state in a few weeks and I better not hear any gear whine.
Sorry, just had to vent
Now the bad news: They called me this morning to tell me my car would be ready for pick up this afternoon. So I go, look everything over, and am thrilled I'm getting my car back after almost 3 weeks of being in the shop. So I'm driving to the rental car place with the rental car agent driving the rent car behind me. I go over 25mph and hear this god awful squeal/squeaking coming from the wheel that was hit in the accident. I called the person behind me (i'm a personal friend of hers) and she tells me the wheel is wobbling like crazy. Well I wanted to see this for myself but she can't drive stick so I called the shop and was like WTH?? The guy handling my claim told me to drive it back asap, they took a look at it and determined that the axle needs to be replaced. I asked why they didn't find this earlier, and he tells me they were in such a rush to get my car back to me that they didn't have time to take it for a drive!!
So my question is, how long do you think it would take a professional with all the right tools to replace an axle assuming they have one in stock? And when I installed my gears I used a different gear oil other than stock, do I need to let them know? And I'm assuming they're going to have to tear the rear end apart and put it back together? If so I'm going to be pissed if they screw it up, I have to drive the thing out of state in a few weeks and I better not hear any gear whine.
Sorry, just had to vent