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Solid-Question-3952 t1_j1szbpu wrote

My husband has been in various positions in the auto repair industry for 15+ years. I asked him how many times he has heard of a good battery being dead, as you described, due to mechanics leaving doors open or letting the vehicle idle. His answer : "never. That wouldnt happen. Maybe if you had a bad battery or your car was from the 1990's. But no, thats not a thing."

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LegendaryRed t1_j1vuv8h wrote

What happened to OP sounds like plain bad timing. His battery decided to crap the bed at that moment, it just happened to coincide with a visit to the mechanic.

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Solid-Question-3952 t1_j1wem83 wrote

Its amazing the amount of things that happen like that. And then people get a case of the eversince's. "Eversince you changed my oil my back tire leaks." "Eversince you changed my door handle my mpg have dropped."

As I said to OP somewhere else, people typically go to a mechanic because they dont know how to do the repair themselves. Yet they always seem to know more than the mechanics do.

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beefy1357 t1_j1x6e17 wrote

And sometimes you know how, you are just too lazy to do it.

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