If you want to know check out Midas at this location.... Same place different name.... Wonder why
To be completely honest it deserves zero stars. I decided to write this while sitting here waiting to cash out. First off I was schooled on my vin number, no big deal, a lot of mechanics like to show their knowledge and that's cool. I'm not mechanically illiterate so I have a good grasp on cars and what my vehicle needs. Pause.
He has to take a phone call (cell) obviously he almost got in a fight last night someone told him to get out of his car cause they were gonna beat his ass.
Ok we are back. It's 60 degrees in here by the way. Anyways oil change was done promptly, no issues there.
They're almost done with the oil, he comes out and tells me it needs a belt and an air filter.... New places always say you need an air filter. I politely declined both but took him up on his offer for an estimate on the belt. Then he decided he needed to go for a second, he started walking around frantically and standing over me looking out the window. Then in the middle of me waiting for a quote and him pacing around he says he'll be back in 10 minutes.... What?
So they bring my keys in and say he'll be back soon... Another guys enters the store, another customer. We are both waiting for a good ten minutes when he finally comes back in.. He is not alone. A guy shoveling on the other side of the building is with him, the owner points out a plaque on the wall. After he repeatedly asked him if he read it the shoveler responds with a yes. The owner gives him a smug look and the shoveler leaves. Then he finally helps the new customer and while doing this he just completely ignored the guy multiple times while stepping in and out from their customer office and the bay's where they work on cars. He would do this in the middle of conversations with no relay to him getting ready to step out... Literally as this guy was talking he would just step away. So he finished after another ten minutes with this guy, and now FINALLY it's my turn to cash out. Remember I had my keys and my car was ready over twenty minutes ago.
The big moment has arrived im mere minutes from leaving this place.
Just kidding, now it's me and him, manu y manu, and now the explanation. So as I approach he remembers, oh yea I was gonna get you a quote on that belt. He starts the process trying to remember my car this and that and then says he's sorry for the hold up... I take it as it is, no problem I understand things happen. Leave it at that, right? No. I get the whole 9 about the snow from the neighbor and how the neighbor doesn't pay his bills and he shows me how he tried to bribe the snow shoveler with a $50... And when I say show I mean he whipped out his wallet, took out the 50 and snapped in my face. This somehow lead to how he was a selectman... And when he was selectman he took all the other ones down. One for voter fraud (online article to accompany the account... Just a headline that a selectman went down for voter fraud actually) and another dropped out because they knew he was running. After this I finally was pointed in the direction of the plaque on the wall... He didn't know I had already read it and he kept asking me to read it.... "I did." Then he proceeds to tell me everything the plaque says... He beat up 5 guys... BLACK guys mind you because that makes it all scarier to him... That were jumping a cop in the early 90's... And if he isn't afraid of 5 black guys in the early 90's before cellphones..... Oh wait this is when I found out he had one of the first cellphones...but if he isn't scared of 5 black guys jumping a cop before cell phones why would he be scared of this guy who doesn't pay his bills???
I'm actually getting dumber now.
Ok so the quote, yea, it's actually a fair price... 95$ for the belt and labor... I will give him that. He apologized about 73 times before I left. I don't know if that really makes up for it all or not.... I think he actually means well, but it doesn't come close to changing the fact that this was actually the worst service I have ever had. So much so that I made a yelp to write this.
If you value your time, and don't want to deal with these things, keep it moving.
If you're looking to talk and here every story true and maybe not so much, go here.
Either way I think you will get an ok price, I can't comment on workmanship since I only got an oil change.
Ps. I didn't even write every story here, this experience blew my mind and in the worst kind of way. read more