boston area mechanic recommendations? - offshoot question

[Grant Lenahan]

Just for laughs. Has anyone gone to Good News Garage ( that's Click 'n 
clack's shop)?
Any experiences?
Purely for interest.

Grant

On 7/15/2010 11:41 AM, a200q20v at yahoo.com wrote:
> I can give my facts (major repairs only):
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> 2003 www.bennysforeignmotor.com timing belt paid $500 labour.
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> 6 years later during next belt replacement in another shop I am told timing belt was loose.
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> 2004 or 05 www.briansgarage.com valve stem seals paid $500 parts and labour.
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> 5 years later valve cover gasket slightly leaking.
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> 2008 www.woodingsgarage.com wheel bearing and rear brake pads, don't recall the price, nothing unusual.
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> 2009 www.briansgarage.com steering rack paid $900 parts and labour.
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> steering rack itself installed good but
> a) neglected to replace or tell about petrified rack return line which I was forced to replace later myself.
> b) destroyed airbag coil spring by most likely not fixating steering wheel during replacement as Bentley manual says.
> c) din't buy a new $10 lock plate (required per Bentley), resulting in inner tire rod bolts going loose pretty quickly, fortunately alignment guy caught it.
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> 2010 www.force5auto.com clutch $1000 timing belt around $500 parts and labour. Much cheaper then the same job in Boston, well worth 70 mile trip.
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> 2010 www.fastrackservice.com alignment. too early to comment. do you own research.
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> HTH.
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> Jul 9, 2010, в 5:38 PM, Eliot Sennett<emsennett at hotmail.com>  написал(а):
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> Now that i' decided to self insure, can anyone recommend an independent Boston area Audi mechanic?
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> Eliot
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