. "2016-10-07T00:00:00"^^ . . "3"^^ . "2"^^ . . "1"^^ . "6"^^ . "AVOID!!!! DO NOT FALL FOR GOOD REVIEWS - FAKE\n\nBased on my experience most of the 5 star reviews here are not legit. Stay away as this place is a typical auto shop rip off. Brought my car in for estimate, told them whats wrong with it and exactly what it needs. I am a mechanic myself and although i do not work as one anymore, I have over 10 years of experience. The only reason I took it in is because of my recent surgery I can not lift more than few lb for a little while. So all I wanted was to get a fair estimate. I asked for rear brakes and struts to be replaced. I was quoted $250 for just the rear brakes. The best brakes Autozone sells is $40 retail, and i know it does not take over two hours to install at 92.50/hr labor rate? A professional can do these in under 30 minutes. I understand that shop needs to make money, so charging me for an hour of labor would have been fine, but definitely not two. Struts are shot on my car as the rear is bouncy as hell, but mechanic said \" they just sweat a little\". After insisting i get an estimate for struts, it came total to 821.00. Deducting rear brakes estimate at ridiculous 250 we get 571. Again retail for rear struts is under $100 on Amazon and if it takes you more than 1-1.5 hours to change it - you are not a mechanic that should be earning a living repairing cars. Fine, charge me for two, but labor seems to be more than 4 hours for just struts alone. based on the estimate it shoud take a professional mechanic 6 hours to change just rear set of brakes and struts on a passenger car. Overcharge much??? I was also charged $95 for diagnostics of something I TOLD THEM I need. and it took them two days of keeping my car to provide me with estimate.\nTo top it off they were lying that their credit card machine does not accept American Express, which it surely does, as they were able to run my card without a problem, albeit with my insistence. Just shady and rude people that only look to rip you off."^^ .