I had a service done here, an alignment. I had an issue with a local transmission shop doing the…read morealignment by hand: it was off by about 5 degrees, so the steering wheel was a little misaligned. I had them try to fix it, and they did nothing again the second time around, so on the third go around, they told me to go to Dipman, and they'd cover the cost.
It was good too, because the charge for a simple alignment was $136! It used to be a lot cheaper than that. I believe the last time I had an alignment done, it was around 80 to 100 bucks.
Anyway, these guys at Dipman are very organized - which is key when considering hiring someone to work on anything you care about. It's a clean, professional shop. They took the job, and worked for about 30 minutes, roughly, then gave me back the car - and would you think it, nothing had been done about the steering wheel alignment! Again, I had to return, and literally all I asked anyone to do was straighten the steering wheel out like it was before I had my clutch replaced. The man at Dipman apologized, and said the steering wheel must have moved while they were straightening the points on the wheels. Yeah, I said. Moved right back to the place it was at before I got here almost an hour ago, while I stood in your parking lot in the hot sun. So they took it back, another 30 minutes passed, and they got it done. It's exactly balanced and square now.
All things considered, I appreciate the cleanliness and accuracy of this place. Old school craftsmanship - almost. The one thing that separates the difference between the men of the before 'fore time and now is that, those men cared so much about their craft, they took that extra 5 minutes at the end to revel in their work, test it, stare at it, and make sure it was exactly perfect and correct. Either the world is moving too fast to care, or the craftsmen and women of this time period just don't care enough at all, but at least they made it right.
They'd better, for $136....
I'd return to this place for work. They do it right.