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| - When the biggest complaint is that they're too good, you know you've found a good repair shop.
And that's the case with Salem Boys Auto in Tempe. They're widely recognized for the quality of their work. And that means, unfortunately, that you can't always be squeezed in at the last minute, and also that they've had to stop accepting new customers more than once.
They play as hard as they work, though, and are closed entirely on Saturdays. Not the shop for you if you can never be rid of your car during the week. (They do offer rentals on-site at reasonable rates, but that doesn't make it any more convenient or make the repairs take any less time.)
Assuming you can mesh their schedule with yours, though, you'll get work done well, done right, and done using only the highest-quality parts. They also have techs who know how those funny-lookin' carb-o-rater things work, which can be a godsend if you've got an older ride.
I've used them for years, and save for one incident that wasn't entirely the tech's fault, I've been happy. They're also the only shop I've found in town that has access to some kind of mystical interchange database nobody else does--if you have a mutant vehicle like, say, an AMC-era Jeep, they can probably find the obscure part you need that nobody else can.
Super mega bonus points for solving emissions problems by actually taking the damn car to the emissions test station. I've had a couple vehicles fail emissions over the years, and Salem Boys was the only shop that ever handed me back my keys and an emissions certificate. Everybody else's solution was "Well, we did X and it passed our sniffer now, so take it to emissions and we'll charge you for another repair if it doesn't pass."
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