Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:07:26 -0400
Reply-To:     Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: My van was aligned ...
Comments: To: Zoltan <thewestyman@GMAIL.COM>
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This is why I prefer an established local shop over a chain shop.  A local shop is not relying on the recognition and advertising of a national brand-name.  If they stay in business, it's usually because they're good.

There's a shop here, and all they do is alignments and front-end work.  They are not located at a mall, or shopping center.  It's not a place you'd likely notice unless you were looking for it.  Yet they've been in business for a long time because they are good at what they do.

When I took my Vanagon in he admitted it had been "a while" since he'd seen one but he knew what to do and did a good job.

Allan

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:03 -0700, "Zoltan" <thewestyman@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Once I went to a Good Year repair place and asked them to align the front
> wheels.  When they were done with it and I looked at it, I could not help
> noticing how wrong they are.  They were set into a V shape badly.  I
> asked them to set it back where it was and give my money back.  No way.
> So I called their complain line and eventually they paid me back.  Looked
> in the book and done it myself.
> But I also asked if they can set the rear wheels too and they said they
> don't have the right tools for it.
>
> I just concluded, they are a bunch of uneducated low class thieves.  That
> was when I decided to take the auto repair matters into my own hands and
> learned it from beginning, and still learning it.  Never again I had to
> rely on these shady characters and be at the mercy of them anywhere in
> the US.  Having so few of those honest ones, it was a necessity out of
> self defence.
>
> But it was so long ago, I forgot how to do it, hahaha.
>
> Happy Easter.
> Zoltan
>