I get the feeling that these clowns went to the hospital and when they saw that they were charged $10 for two Tylenols, rather than protest, they thought. "Sweet!" and decided to screw everyone.

I agree that they didn't use $3.50 worth of silicone to seal your rear end, but these bozos didn't actually use ANY materials for thr $5.00 they charged me for. The fool admitted that he could stick each and every customer for $5.00 for crap whether he used any or not and that he was damn near required to do so by the county.

Of course, the hospital does actually treat people who pay nothing. I am pretty sure that the only charity cases at The Tire Factory in Hialeah are the two obese Cubans who gaze at games in their monitors all day while the skinny little Central American guy does all the work.

I agree that alignment must be taken on faith, even more so than when you buy strawberries in a sealed container. You get home, all those on the bottom are rotten. You have paid $3.00 a pound for garbage and you are stuck.

I went to about five shops and called four others before taking my car to these guys. There were obvious signs of incompetence and obnoxion from the boss guys of the other nine shops. Either they guy says "you'll have to leave it and wait five hours" or "Eighty-nine ninety-five" or "We have to charge extra for Mercedes because you need SPECIAL TOOLS." Well, Carlos, whose work I have evevidence to trust, did a great job in thirty minutes on three diferent cars of mine, including two Mercedes and never touched any special tools.

Once the tools are paid for, why charge extra? But they are lying when they tell you about special tools, at least for W123's and W124's. When they won't let you watch them work, there is a reason that goes bewyond their insurance alibi. They just don't want to let you see that they have lied to you about the special tools.

Midas is the worst about overcharging. They sell a $35 rotor for $150 and tell you the part is "guaranteed for the life of your car as long as you own it", but should you ask them to replace it, they will tell you it just needs to be turned. (after they have told you that they are so interested in your safety that they NEVER turn rotors, or that the government won't LET them turn rotors.

Well of course, you needed TWO rotors for $300 rather than just one. So you are doubly screwed.

Any sane custodian of his pocketbook should stay well away from the Midas on 163rd St in North Miami Beach. This is what they did to a friend of mine who is so mechanically disadvantaged that I had to show him how to use the dipstick.

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Semibodacious Transmogrifications a Specialty

1990 300D 2.5 Turbo sedan 171K (Rudolf)
1985 300D Turbo TD Wagon 219K (Remuda)

"Time flies like and arrow, yet fruit flies like a banana"
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