So, the wheel baring went out on our truck and the steering knuckle broke because of it, on the highway no less, and we had it towed to the nearest auto shop. The mechanic that we had our truck towed to (which by the way was also the same one that so called "inspected" it just 2 weeks beforehand) told us that all these different things were wrong with it and it would be $1000 to fix it, plus they were going to use junk yard parts for some of it. First of all, when they did the "inspection" all the guy did was walk around the truck and kick a tire. He never pulled it into the garage or lifted up or took a wheel off or anything. They tried to tell us that this was done as a "courtesy". Um, no I'm pretty sure that was done because you are lazy. My husband and a co-worker witnessed it even. Everyone that we have talked to over this has told us that the wheel baring would have been caught if a proper inspection had been done. I mean, we could have flipped the truck and died! So we thought for sure that they would at least own up to their mistake and give us the diagnostic and estimate for free. No such luck. At first, they told us that it would be $45 for the estimate. Then after we got the estimate and told them that we would be towing it out of there, they told us it would be $300 for the fact that they had to take the tires off and that they wouldn't put it back together or release our truck to us without payment. That's stealing! Anyway, we went there and the guys started arguing with us about it while my husband was trying to tell them to just put the tires back on. Well, my husband is never one to back down from anything and he can have a short fuse. The mechanic keep taunting him, which I believe he was trying to get my husband to hit him so that they could press assault charges. I had to physically step in-between them and pull him away so that it wouldn't happen. They kept yelling at me at that point to "get him the hell out of there". So then, being a total girl, I started crying and saying that this was totally unfair what they were doing to us and they wouldn't even talk to me decent until I apologized for my husband's behavior (which in my opinion, I shouldn't have had to do since they instigated it). In the end they wouldn't take a check or card and we had to pay them $90 in cash for them to put the tires back on and release our truck to us. Once it was towed to our trusted mechanic in town, they quoted us $450 for all new parts and labor and everything on both sides! That is so much more reasonable I think. So the moral of the story here: DON'T EVER TAKE YOUR VEHICLES HERE! They are rude and unprofessional and will try to bleed your wallet dry for shoddy work. read more