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My Favorite Mechanic, Inc
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Edgewood-Candler Park (North-South, Northeast-South, East-West, Proctor Creek)
4 reviews for My Favorite Mechanic, Inc
My biggest worry when I moved was finding an honest garage. In Tampa, I'd been taking my car to the same shop for ten years. Now that I'm in Atlanta, I'm happy to have found another honest shop at My Favorite Mechanic Is A Woman.
How do I know they're honest? First, they've consistently refused to make promises they might not be able to live up to. They won't promise to have a job done by a certain time, but their guesses are usually pretty good.
Another sign of an honest garage is a lot full of cars and no coupons or discounts. An oil change would be cheaper elsewhere, but My Favorite Mechanic consistently has plenty of customers. They've got to be doing good work in order to attract that much business without coupons.
What I really love is that they've turned away my business on occasion when they felt they couldn't do what I needed. Yesterday at 3pm, for example, I asked them to figure out why water was spilling onto my floorboards. They said they couldn't promise to do anything before Tuesday because they'd already committed to other customers leaving for the Labor Day weekend. Call tomorrow morning, they said, and let's see what our workload looks like. They also gave me a tip: it's probably the A/C drain.
So I went home and took off the glove compartment, and verified that it's definitely the A/C drain. I called as they were opening, told them I saw the water coming out of the cooling unit, and they said "Come on in."
Which brings me to my last point: the location is great. It's a short walk to a MARTA station, and there are two coffee-and-wifi places (at least) within a few blocks. So if I've got a morning full of things to do, I can walk a block or two and get cracking while my car goes to rehab.
Well to update they did seemingly fix my car so far.....It took them three cracks at the problem before they got it right. Allow me to digress after the 2nd attempt I came to pick up the car and again it wouldn't start. I thence walked back in only to have the receptionist give me the look we knew that was going to happen - she also said it was wanting to start and we were having trouble with it too. So why did you call me telling me it was fixed???
In any event they never offer to refund any of the cost from the first two fixes. Full price to fix was 1750 when it should have been 400 dollars. I'm still debating if I should cancel the funds on my credit card - I wouldn't - but I also won't go there again.
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3/26/2009
Brought my car here hoping to have a problem diagnosed. Both times they were incorrect in their… Read more »
I took my car here once, upon first moving to town in '93. I thought it was so cool to have a shop run by women. The joke was on me.
They performed bogus work & charged twice what the next mechanic did to fix it. I decided to never go back, & have stuck to it.
I'm convinced they're still the same, because whenever I pass by with a friend, it's inevitable a comment will be made about what a rip-off they are.
Honest mechanic is such an oxymoron that when you find one, you want to keep her forever. That's right. My favorite mechanic is a woman named Carrie. She handles domestic and foreign. I never leave there feeling like I've been screwed. Prices are fair and I get my car when promised.
