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SeawaySensFan wrote:Cap'n Clutch wrote:If you live in the East end I highly recommend checking out Labreche Garage just past Rockland on Ramage road. I trust them and their rates are reasonable. They also don't just blindly look at the allowable hourly charge for service. In other words if it takes them 1 hour to change a bearing they don't charge you 2 because the book says they're allowed to charge that much.
That's big. I worked in a garage and I couldn't believe some of the hours assigned to certain jobs in the Flat Rate Book.
I love telling stories about this garage. So here are a couple.
1 - I had a bearing going and couldn't arrange an appointment soon enough with Labreche so I called a few places and they all said it would be 2 hours labour at 70 plus dollars an hour plus parts. I decided to chance it and the bearing siezed out at Carling and Parkdale. I got Labreche to come all the way out and tow it to their garage past Rockland. That plus the added effort required due to the siezed bearing was still cheaper than if I had gone elsewhere.
2 - I had an old Ford Escort that ended up stalling when I didn't have the gas on. Imagine driving a manual transmission without lifting your foot off the gas in the city. Anyway, I called Labreche and he told me it had to be the Idling cellinoid (sp) and told me where to find it and that it wouldn't even require tools. I had to go to the dealership to buy the part and thought maybe the service guys would do me a favour and just pop it in since it would only take 5 minutes of their time. The service guys insisted that the car would have to be looked at to determine for sure what was wrong first which would have been one hour labour. I just did it in the parking lot myself and it only took me 10 minutes of fumbling around and looking for the part.
