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| - I should probably just give this place one star, but the mechanics here were accommodating enough to 'take a look at' my car after they botched their first attempt at fixing the problems THEY CAUSED as a result of their too hasty attempt to perform a tune up I paid almost $300 for. Did you get all that? Here, I'll create a timeline for you, for clarity.
1. I take the car in on a Saturday and wait for this tune up to be completed. I was there with the car from noon to 4pm, when the shop closed. Towards the middle of the day, the mechanic hands me the keys back and tells me that 'everything is fine, except for the fact that it is revving now while in park, but you're hardly ever in park, so it should be fine'. I agree with him initially, because I was raised to be very agreeable. I proceed to test drive the vehicle and notice that it is clearly not functioning optimally. Not only does it rev while in park, but it also hesitates noticeably anytime I shift gears, and especially when downshifting; a misfire. Now I'm really kicking myself. They try for a few hours to fix this issue. I decide to take the car back in on Monday and wait with it again. I didn't drive my car into the ground, and have been judicious about maintaining it at regular intervals to prevent something like this from happening. It has become a very recalcitrant steel horse. I leave wishing I had never gotten the tune up done.
2. Monday. I sit with the car and wait for another four hour interval. The mechanic says that he needs to 'retrain' a computer that is malfunctioning and causing the car to run like a POS. I wait. He returns. He finally tells me that the computer issue cannot be fixed, and that I need a new throttle body. He informs me that fixing this throttle body will cost $300 and that the issues the car is experiencing are not his fault. The fact that none of these issues were occurring with the car before I visited Mieneke was irrelevant, apparently. It wasn't his fault. I drive the car home, in a state of disbelief. The tragic irony of the situation did not escape me.
3. I decide that I have had enough of this malarkey and take my recalcitrant steel horse home. I resign myself to the fact that sitting in drive thru's will now be even more annoying than it was before. I tell myself not to be upset at my first world problems. The car can still get from Point A to Point B, and this is what matters. Three days later, my horse begins shaking wildly and knocking while I'm at a red light. I take the car home, and demand that my mechanic boyfriend have a look at it.
4. Upon inspection, he finds that the people who did the work didn't take out all the parts as is required for the job to be completed, and that duct tape was wrapped around a component and hastily melted to create a seal. Not surprisingly, this resulted in the 'seal' being compromised by heat and wear and tear, which ultimately caused the seal to fail.
You should take your car here if you:
1. Enjoy being patronized by mercenary mechanics
2. Have been lighting your Scrooge McDuck piles of money on fire at home to keep warm at night, but summer is coming so have no better use for it than to squander it senselessly over a period of a few weeks, all while continually being told that the problem will ultimately be fixed, eventually... one day...
3. Need someone to help facilitate your plan to turn your car into a very, very large metal brick so you can finally store it in your backyard and find quasi-fame on one of those reality TV shows about rednecks
4. You have a lot of time to waste
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