Pepboys has become my best friend...

I had something nearly as rotten from some other dealers and it put me off so much, I thought, why not try the guys/n/gals at Pepboys (with an old 90s Miata.) Every job they did including majors like a timing belt were perfect. Far better work than the foo-foo dealerships, or the horridly expensive import shop where the motherf...... broke the plastic grip ring on the oil dipstick said it came that way! F-em all, and go to someone you can build a relationship with. Good mechanics are like good computer geeks in that they know the tech. Google's customer business rating system or things like Yelp can shake those folks to the core, so use them.

For me though, the relationship and work with all the good diehard mechanics at Pepboy's has always been 2000 times that I ever got from a dealer or Fi-ing - "import" shop. So that's my ShoutOut to those good guys/n/gals.