Larue Auto Repair

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Took it in to get my timing belt changed based on the recommendation of a friend of a friend who has been friends with the owner for over ten years. They had it ready for me to pick up the next day. The price wasn't as cheap as you could get but I'd rather pay a little more knowing I took it to a place that's trustworthy rather than take a chance on an unknown place (cost was a little over $750, had other minor things done along with belt change).



I gave it a three because he told me there was a bracket missing for the engine to hold it in place so I brought it back the next day after he got the part in. He put it in in less than a half hour and I came back and asked him how much he was going to charge me for putting it on. He paused, and said twenty, so I handed him a twenty. I didn't see any paper work though and later on I realized he wasn't going to charge me anything. It was partly my fault but if he was really honest, he wouldn't have taken my money (this was the owner by the way)



Another time, I took my car in to get it checked on account of an RPM problem and told him I noticed it most on the freeway. Later on, he told me they couldn't fix it. He said even though he knows there's a problem (he drove it on the freeway to check), he couldn't reproduce it on the machine in the shop so he couldn't fix it. After doing some research of my own, I know now it's a transmission slip that was happening and read that it is pretty common among automatics. This makes me wonder why he couldn't check the things associated with a transmission slip (like trans fluid, trans filter etc). If he didn't know what it was, that makes me nervous because it wasn't that hard for me to find out on my own what the problem was. It does show honesty that he told me he didn't know what it was, though.