[ValerieUSA]

I hate car repairs... leaving the car behind in the hands of "skilled" mechanics who know how to make their repairs last just one day beyond the waranty, and who have time to tamper with and weaken another part when they've finished making repairs to the broken parts and charge you labor for it and then say, "See you soon," when you drive off... .

[.38sw]

The shop where I had my car repaired today is not the shop where the brakes were replaced previously. I'll never go back there. They liked to me about the rear brakes, and told me they needed replacing soon. I took it to another shop (where the car was today) and they said, no way, those brakes have a lot of miles left in them. This shop has worked on my husband's old car many times, and kept it going for him. They've basically been doing the scheduled service on my car (newer than hubby's, so not needing a lot of repairs), and he really trusts them. He knows a lot about cars, having done a lot of repair work himself, and believes that this shop does good work at a fair price. We've taken our cars there for about 7 years now. But yeah, car repairs are tough - it's hard to know if you're being "taken for a ride". so to speak...