1 /5 Penny: We have used this shop for many years, apparently it is now under new management. Brought one of the cars in for smog certification., but day before appt check engine light came on, we were told to bring it in anyway. We were charged $65 just to plug in the code reader, Auto Zone does for free we found out later. Were never charged this before in similar situations. Were then told 2 parts needed replacement to pass smog and were verbally quoted a cost of $300 parts and labor. Jay said he was going to order the parts.
Drove the car for a few days. Check engine light never came back on. Called Jay and he told me that parts were going to be over $500, who knows what the labor was going to be at their shop rates. Decided to take it to Auto Zone to do the FREE test and all monitors were just fine. Took it over to a different Smog Shop and it passed with flying colors. Moral of the story, this shop is not what it used to be when Scott was there (hes at Plaza now in NC), gut feeling was not a good one and we were right.