Needed some advice

my truck is 2012 freightliner cascadia with 1.5 millon miles


Hi

first time using this forum, but I have read many great reviews and appreciate how other truckers help their brothers and sister in the trucking community.

So the issue I have is a dispute I have with a mechanic shop.
I'm from Canada , I drive between Canada and the states, so my truck broke down in oregon, i was having low power my engine had de-rated , I contacted the closest freightliner dealership if they could take a look at my truck but they had told me that they could not they were booked out, So i searched and found there was one more shop that was nearby so I drove there, told the issue to the mechanic and he told me don't worry we have all the software to work and fix the problem on my truck, so I let them do it. So he told me the truck will be done by wednesday, so I got a ride and came back to canada. Gave him a call back, he said that they replaced some dosing valve and they are just waiting on some other parts and told me to give a call back later, so gave him a call back he told me the dosing valve didn't solve the problem that the def pump needs to be replaced , and he said have to wait couple more days for the part to arrive, so I waited I got a call back he told me they followed all the instructions they got from the diagnostic software but they could not figure it out and it needs to go to freightliner, so it went to Freightliner. So when freightliner diagnosed they could not figured it out and some specialist from freightliner had to come and diagnose , so the issue came out to be the SCR Box needs to be replaced the whole DPF assembly and the injectors need to be replaced so freightliner gave the quote for $12000 USD so when its converted to CAD its $15,000, so the first shop I took the truck so they put my bill at $3400 USD which comes at $4300 CAD. So Freightliner charged me $4000 , for diagnosing and replacing some DPF Sensors and some other things i cant remember exact.
So the total balancing that I owe on the truck combine the shop and freightliner is $7400 USD so which if I convert to CAD comes around $10,000. The mechanic called me told me about the bill, i refused because it doesn't make sense to spend 20k CAD on a truck that worth less than 10k CAD, i told him to keep the truck I don't want it, first he was interested in keeping the truck he told me that he will think it over and let me know, so he called me and told me he's not interested in keeping the truck and he wants his money, I told him i cant afford to pay you , now he's threatening me that he will go to court.

My question is
the mechanic want $10,000 and he didn't even fix my truck, can he legally keep the truck and will it make sense for him to go to court if the truck is under his possession , I have tried talking and explaining to him that he can keep the truck and you can do what over you want , sell it for parts do whatever and you can recover your money but he is refusing.

just wanted some advice what should I do , I'm not paying him a single penny because he didn't fix the truck and plus I don't even want the truck.

Thanks

 

100 percent agree with you, good that members help each other.

mechanics are scam artists my friend he works at a car dealership he was telling me a story about on a customer's car faded brake light was coming on the dash , so when he checked he knew it was some electrical issue , he kept diagnosing but he could not figured out he asked the manager what should he do , the manager told him to replace the whole brake booster, he told manager the brake booster working fine, but manager told him to do it, he replaced the booster and when he started the car up the light was still on , then he figured it out where the fuses sit inside the car the customer spilled coffee on it, got a blow gun cleared all the coffee out and the light was gone. He fixed the problem, less than 5 minutes, the brake booster was already replaced he couldn't do anything, they charged the guy $3700, and the fix was just a tiny fix , replaced the brake booster for no reason.

these emissions truck suck, manufacturers brought emissions so they could make more money.
probably my next truck i'm going to be leasing it ,don't have to deal with the stupid repairs

 

yea I signed the paper, but I don't mind paying the mechanic, but the issue he didn't fix the truck he made it worse.
And plus the other thing is when I told I can't pay you , he said he's going to take me to collections to recover the money , what is collection even going to do , even if I had the truck they would had just taken the truck back from me and tow it back to him. But the truck is under his possession.

I talked to lot people every one said, doesn't make sense to pay and bring the truck back to canada , I'm paying $10,000 just to get my truck back in Canada, I would have to spend another $10,000 to fix it , and plus the truck has so much mileage it doesn't make sense , even if i fix it lets say couple months later maybe the engine can go or the tranny can go , so doesn't make sense to me.

What would you do, if you were in my shoes