One icy January morning, 2006, I slid into a curb in my Jetta TDI on my way to work, and the car hasn't driven straight since, and has made a lot of rattling sounds that seem to come from just about every bolt in the car. I took it to several dealers, tire and alignment shops, and an expensive European car shop, all of which charged me for an alignment and when I got it back, still not driving straight, they blamed it on everything from tires, bent frame, bad bearings, shocks... I even had one place tell me after they aligned it, "Oh, it's supposed pull to the right because that's what we call 'right hand lane alignment', mandated by the state"... clearly hogwash! Anyway it still pulled to the right and wore out a set of tires about every 10k miles and I was not happy. I was ready to sell the car at a loss just to be done with it, well overdue now with over 100k miles of frustration went into that car while I had this issue. As a last ditch effort to fix the car just good enough to sell it, I took it to Poco and explained to Kyle and Jack my frustrating situation and asked them if they could help me. Kyle said he could fix it and at least make it 99% better, if not perfect again. Since a free estimate costs me nothing, I smiled and kept my expectations low, and let him take a look at it. The next afternoon, I dropped by to see how the progress was coming along. Kyle and I had a good conversation where he showed me exactly what was going on with it and what it would take to get me happy with it. I thought there would be one or more bent parts just on the side that got hit, but actually both sides were busted. There were some other safety worries from things I wasn't aware of that he showed me as well. I thought "uh oh... I can only imagine how much this is going to cost..." I mentally took a deep sigh and waited for a price that would blow my hair back... it was actually about 1/3 of what I would expect to pay at a dealer! They STILL managed to come in cheaper than that at the end when it was all said and done because they ended up being able to find parts cheaper than expected. I was VERY pleased to hear this. There were a couple of other minor tweaks that needed to be done as well, which were provided at no charge. :-) I'm driving around now, happy as can be. Needless to say, I've decided to keep it a while longer.
Thanks Poco Auto! You made me love my little car again! read more