N.B. THE CHARGE--given here-- was almost half the price of what was QUOTED for us for the identical repair at a VA Auto & Tire place :-
.[Actual charge of 63 dollars for the headlight fix VS. the quote of 120 dollars for the identical repair at the auto & tire place.]
Therefore, one must be careful where to do the inspection--in case it could involve certain necessary repair(s) afterwards
Please observe that this Vienna car place received 53% of five stars versus 35% of negative stars
--where as it was almost an equal one third meaning 20% less favorite reviews than the Vienna Place --(approx . 33% each) for auto & tire for either most positive VS. most negative reviews.
And most of all, one must be realistic and not out of line :-
it IS only fair to be charged another twenty dollars,--- if and when one has to do the inspection again!!!
In partial response to Mr. Ryan of Burke, VA about being charged the second time for the re-inspection fee. Whenever, one changes the location--that is NOT affiliated to the former place at all, one must pay.
In exactly if one's contractor fails to finish the job, a new and unaffiliated to the former contractor comes along to HELP to finish the incomplete job, of course, one needs to pay the second contractor as well.
Fair is fair. *
--- It would be rather odd and UNFAIR for the second place NOT to charge anything while repeat the inspection.
*[Even Judge Judy reiterated that one could not just go to eat the steak and decided NOT to pay for it, because one didn't like the food.
In short, if you eat it, you must pay for it--whether one wants to OR NOT.]
After all it IS a different task/place/or time to redo the inspection
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This IS what happened to my husband yesterday, Saturday June the 6th, 2020:-
Yesterday morning about quarter to 8 am, the character husband took my car--a 2015 Fiat that we bought from Carmax in July 2018-- to the Centreville VA auto & tire for the required inspection.
After a two-hour wait from 7.55 am to 10 am, it was finally my car's turn to be inspected. Later, a fellow WITHOUT any mask --approached my husband to inform him that the car passed everything with the exception for the hi-lo beam headlight--and that they could fix it for a mere 120 dollars in order to pass the inspection.
After a long wait plus the desire to get away from this guy without any protective mask, my husband declined his offer and went to pick up the car. Only then --- did he realize that our car now had a REJECTION sticker on it for him to drive home.
Needless to say, I was livid to see the "rejection" sticker right on my baby Fiat!!!
I reminded my stubborn husband that I, indeed, did ask him to postpone doing this year's inspection till I could first get in touch with our favorite auto place in Vienna, VA--a gas station at the corner of Lee Highway (route 29) and Nutley Street--that they also maintain a repair shop for quite a few decades with several awards of being among the best.**
**[About ten or eleven years ago when we still had a Subaru Impreza 2002, they were the only one that could exactly locate where the leak was--after even the Subaru dealership in Dover, DE could not pinpoint the exact location of this leak --- they could only inform us via the computerized analysis-- that there was a leak.
Later, only this car place at this Nutley St. & Rte. 29 located the leak within five minutes after I told Khun Sam about it.]
I telephoned and talked to Mr. Pop, ---[ we used to have Mr. Jo***, a great mechanic--- along with Khun Sam, the former receptionist/ manager of the place. ]
I told Mr. Pop what happened to our Fiat and asked him to help fix the headlight so that my car could pass the inspection.
REPEAT : The repair part --a total of which and actual bill, minus the inspection fee, came to 63 dollars--18 for the headlight and 45 for the labor--just about HALF of the very quote of 120 dollars from the VA Auto & Tire.
No, indeed, we had NEVER informed this Vienna car shop of the first repair quote from Auto & Tire. For I was too upset with the "rejection" sticker and completely too livid to think of anything else--let alone any crummy quote!
And my husband-- a rather absent-minded & forgetful person, just forgot about it.
Most of all and if needed be, we could afford the quote of 120 dollars at the Virginia Tire & Auto of Centreville,
--- but my husband just wanted to get away from the fellow, who came to talk to him without any mask!
[ *** Mr. Joe, used to be our mechanic, but the Toyota Dealership, in the Fairfax County, came to convince him to depart this auto place to go and work at the dealership instead.]
We hope that this real event can help to justify where one should do the inspection.
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