Berg9987
07-20-2007, 11:33 AM
I took the MR2 to Midas this morning for a four wheel alignment. The entire process did not go as planned. I had an appointment for nine thirty. I dropped it off fifteen minutes early. They take my info and then I ask to confirm the price. Just over one hundred dollars. The guy behind the counter then tells me that that is just for the toe in and out on the four wheels. I had told a different guy on the phone that I needed toe, castor, and camber on all four wheels and he gave me the same $104 quote. He tells me that it is $56 for every half hour after that. I ask how long it's going to take, and he says that he won't know till its on the machine, but "a car so old will most likely be all seized up". At this point I tell him that it is not as I have made sure that every single adjustment can be turned with hand tools. He repeats the "have to wait tilll its on the machine." So I return to work. I don't hear anything for a while. Finally at almost eleven thirty he calls me. I expect to hear about how out of alignment everything was. Instead he tells me that one of my tyres is worn too much to do an alignment! Two hours after my appointment. The tyre was fine last week when I made the appointment. So I go back to pick up my car. He puts my keys down on the counter with an invoice. The invoice was for an alignment which wasn't done, but the two hours that he did nothing with my car was on there. Looks like he was going to try and tell me that the car was in the shop that long. When he sees me looking at it he takes it off the counter and prints up another one with no charge on it. I'm pretty sure that he was going to try and charge me for the two hours my car was just sitting there. Enough of me ranting though...
As the tittle says, where is the best place to get an MR2 aligned?
Cheers,
Berg
As the tittle says, where is the best place to get an MR2 aligned?
Cheers,
Berg