Euro-Tech Saab

These guys really did right by me. I was at a music festival in Winfield, KS. Actually, THE music festival; the Walnut Valley Festival; best in the country. Anyway, we're heading home to Colorado pulling a pop-up camper with my Volvo S70. It starts bucking; shutting off completely for a second or two at a time. A local guy in Winfield did his best, but didn't have the diagnostic tools, and we couldn't get it to repeat the failure. He sent me towards Wichita, and enroute I contacted Gorges Volvo in Wichita, splained to them that I was trying to get home to Colorado, but nope, they couldn't look at it; I guess being 500 miles away from home and work ain't no big deal to them. By contrast, Euro-Tech looked at it as soon as they could, did their best to diagnose it using the on-board diagnostics tools--again, we couldn't get it to fail--and came through with a decent, if not definitive, call on the Mass Air Flow Sensor by their closing time. Plus, he replaced a few minor vacuum hoses that looked suspect. I couldn't stay over that night to get the work completed; I had to leave and get home. We had a confab about the best way to make it; since the problem had occurred only when pulling the camper and in the heat, he suggested we leave the camper in Wichita, which we did (a friend will bring it later), and try taking it easy on the way home. And I made it home. The guy who diagnosed it said they normally charge $85 for the computer diagnosis (seems fair to me), but since they hadn't been able to fix it, they knocked it down to $28 and change. It wasn't THEIR fault they couldn't fix it; I had to take off, and really appreciated their effort to get me on the road. Ya live in fear of breaking down far from home and getting shafted, but these guys really did their best, and I really appreciate it.