The young lady who works here either needs an attitude adjustment, or she needs to be fired. Her ignorance is why I took my business to elsewhere. Making ignorant loud sigh noises kr grunts isn't how you keep potential customers to do business with your shop. Get rid of her ignorant ass Don.
Next point, unless another young lady quit, she his same female was supposed to make an appointment for me for Monday, August 1, 2022 when I called a couple weeks ago. I had my vehicle towed from Big Sky, Montana (turned out my throttle body was going bad). I arrive and told I am not on the schedule until the next day, Tuesday, August 2, 2022. Don told me I could leave my vehicle.
No thanks! I will leave my vehicle when you will be working on it, oddly they got ne in to run a diagnostic. Turns out I needed a throttle body and exhaust manifold. Don said it would take all day, so they would work on it the next day. Throttle body issues pretty much makes vehicles inoperable:
Needless to say, I didn't sleep in my car. I called a mobile mechanic and had them swap out my throttle body in 20 minutes. I then swapped the old throttle body with the new one and received my money back (lifetime warranty from AutoZone). This saved me $300 instead of paying 3rd Avenue Repair for a part under warranty and a 20 minute job).
I then had my spark plug wires, oil change and exhaust manifold taken care of for less than the exhaust manifold and oil change 3rd Avenue auto repair would have charged me.
Last straw is when I was willing to have 3rd Avenue auto repair swap out my headlight ballast. I asked how long it would take, and the smart young lady gives a loud sigh. I said if you can't figure out how long it will take to do a headlight ballast, I don't want to waste my money with you. The young man working was looking it up. He asked Don. Don't told him it was hard because the bumper had to be removed.
That is bull shit. Anyone with a smartphone can see the headlight can be removed by watching a YouTube video. I know it isn't that hard because I had another should remove the headlight and replace it and diagnose it by swapping ballasts to show me the ballast was bad (Minneapolis has a lights out program to replace head lights, brake lights and tail lights for free). The program doesn't replace ballasts for free.
If you want to be jerked around for outrageous prices or deal with ignorant and rude people, come to 3rd Avenue Auto Repair. If you want tj receive great customer service, competent and reasonable prices, be treated with respect (no sighs because you question times and estimates), you should go elsewhere. P.S. business 101. Make an appointment for the right day. read more