From the recent smowstorms in the MId-Atlantic are in Feburary, we all know what accumulation we have gotten. Well as I was driving my car with my family on Valentines day all of sudden my car exhaust system broke and the sound was horrible. When I got the car home I put the car up on blocks to see want and where the exhaust system had seperated. Well I found it and it was a a brake at the flange the goes over the rear axel the car. The break looked very clean and I thought this would be a easy and quik repair.
S o I called the local Midas store in our area and they said bring it down for a evaulation. So I did, they put the car uup on the lift looked at for not ever 5min. I was wathching every move they were making. The Manager came and said that I needed a whole new muffler assembly, and it would cost $310.00. I put the brakes on them and said NO WAY!
In the the waiting there was a young lady waitnig for her car to be repaired, and she even commented on that seemed very excessive. So I went haome and paged through th yello pages, and I found a local custom exhaust shop. I called them up and explained of my problem and he even gave me a rough estimate over the phone and we were at $75.00. I took the car over and he looked at it and gave me a alernate plan. He showed me shop are and I was impressed of all the pipe bending equipment and different type of welders for all of the different type of metel that are used in exhaust systems. I knew this guy knew what he was doing. He had the car for about 85 minutes and told me that I did not need a muffler assembly, he cut the old flange off and re welded new flanges on the exhaust system. The price he charged me $115.00. The customer relation ship we developed PRICELESS! People wake up and give the locals busniesses some respect and coutersy the work they do will be far better thn the big corporate retail service centers. TO THE MIDAS CORPORATE PIGS, CAN'T FOOL EVERBODY AND I REFUSE TO BE RIPPED OF IN THAT OF MANNER.