Those greedy weasels managed to leach $200 out of me to get my heat working, and what’s worse is all they did was flush the coolant system. Half that was to run a diagnostic and the other half was the actual coolant flush. The saddest part of the whole thing was that I already had all the stuff I needed to do the flush myself. I ended up opting for them to do it so that I’d have the assurance that it would fix the problem. I guess if I had flushed it myself, and the flushing didn’t fix the heat, they would charge me for another diagnostic to get at the problem. By letting them do it, they take the responsibility of assuring me that the problem would be fixed.
On the up side, so far it seems to have fixed the problem. It has been putting out heat like a blast furnace. In the last few weeks, I’ve noticed that when I had the pickup in a grage, be it at home or at work, it would heat; but when I parked in the driveway or on the street, it wouldn’t heat. Of course when they had it in the shop, it was in a garage, so experience says it should heat anyway. I think the problem is fixed though. I also really hope that it no new problems come up. In the last two months, I have spent way too much on that pickup. I got a new tonneau cover so I could use it for work, I got new tires, I put new brakes on it, I got the stuff I needed to flush the system (even though someone else ended up doing it), I got a new thermostat, put a new alternator in it about 2 months ago, a new belt, and gas hasn’t been cheap.