If you love your car, please read this. Yep this place is the cheapest, and you really and truly will get what you pay for.
[SUMMARY]
This shop was the cheapest (by $25) to repair the side window on my Volvo. I brought it in for a 60 minute appointment, which turned into a 90 minute appointment, and left with a scratch on the door where my window was replaced, and black smudges on my steering wheel and inside of the driver door.
[DETAILS]
The waiting area consists of a stained couch and a stained chair in a dimly-lit room with a coin-op soda machine. The staff members that I interacted with were friendly and casual. The appointment was quoted over the phone for 1.5 hrs, but when I arrived at the shop I was told just one hour would be enough. I checked back in an hour, and was told they needed 30 mins more. Fine. There's a large window in their waiting area that allows you to see your vehicle being worked on. After the window was replaced and the tech parked my car outside, I was shocked to see how dirty his hands were. I figured he must have been using gloves and taken them off. Fine. I pay and leave.
I was eager to leave SoDo because I scheduled my appointment the day of the playoff game against the Saints, and the torrential rains weren't helping with game day traffic. I checked to make sure that the window wasn't leaking, and also checked that it rolled up and down normally. Fine.
As I'm driving away I start to notice the black smudges on the door and the steering wheel. UGH. And then, I get home and look at the door in my garage (where there is more light), and I find a scratch in the plastic near the window. I know that it was not there before, because I closely examined that door at home immediately after the window was smashed in.
I emailed pictures of smudges and the scratch to the owner, and he thanked me for my feedback. He also wrote that I was the "first customer ever" to report issues like this. I came on to Yelp and saw the review from Sam A. and others about damage/black smudges. There was no attempt to remedy the situation, and he's clearly being dishonest about customers reporting issues.
[CONCLUSION]
For $25 more, there were plenty of other options by established shops in Seattle that could repair my window. I could have had a nicer waiting area and I'm guessing other shops use gloves when they work on your car. The scratch on the door is not a huge deal, but saving $25 for this experience ABSOLUTELY wasn't worth it. I wouldn't come here again, and I wouldn't recommend this shop to anyone. read more