Oh Em Gee! I'm the duke of Master Auto Body & Upholstery!! WOOOHOOO!! NOT!
Obviously being the duke at a body shop means that I had been involved in a little fender bender. What's worse was that I was at fault! -_- Ok, you shut up, don't judge me. Yes I ran into a nice big SUV in my little sedan and guess what? My car was in pretty bad shape. Buckled hood, broken headlight, just in bad shape overall. The SUV? a couple of scratches and one little dent!
Anyway, I haven't needed a body shop in forever (12+ years) so I wasn't sure what's a reputable body shop is. Yelp to the rescue!!! Awesome overall reviews for Master body shop. But no, I still had to google them. And they had awesome overall reviews on google as well. So, I brought my car in there, while it was pouring cats and dogs.
I dropped my car off on a Friday evening and I was greeted by the owner (Sorry, I can't remember his name) and he said that he'd take care of me. He didn't even look at the damages but he assured me that he was working for the customers and not for the insurance company. I was kind of iffy, but I guess he couldn't really look at anything in the pouring rain anyway. After he called Enterprise to pick me up, we got to talking and he was showing me pictures of the works that he had done in the past. Before and after pictures. He also mentioned that this body shop used to be the main body shop for Mercedes of Greenway until they had some falling out. He didn't mention what kind of falling out but it didn't matter to me anyway.
I left and the following Monday my insurance adjuster called me and gave me the total estimate for the repair and told me that the car would be ready in about two weeks. At this point I just didn't care anymore, I wanted the car fixed and that was that. Fast forward two weeks later when I went to pick up my car, they did amazing job! One of the guys walked me through what they did with the car. Showed me what was repaired and what was replaced. He even told me that he had tried to work on some deep scratches on my car (My car was keyed on both sides on the front doors one week after I had bought it) and told me that he had tried to buff them out but the scratches were to deep. I also noticed that they had replaced my passenger side rear view mirror (it was damaged when I parked by the curb on Washington and wasn't damaged during the accident) and they had fixed some minor damages that I knew weren't caused by the accident. Pretty sweet.
It's been one month since I picked up my car from Master and the car is running great, no issues, it looks good. The paint matches great and I have to say I will recommend people that need a body shop to go to Master.
And oh, did I mention that this body shop is only about five minutes away from where I live? So it was VERY convenient for me to go there. read more