Sunday, March 18, 2012

Finding A Mobile Auto Repair Shop

By Elizabeth Pastore


Hiring a mobile auto repair service can have some great advantages. You are able to sit in your home and watch television and be comfortable while your vehicle is under repair. Also many services will come to your place of work when possible allowing you to continue your busy and hectic schedule. They can also help save you money because they will allow you to buy your own parts avoiding a large and ridiculous parts mark up. In addition many of them are family owned and operated therefore able to save you more money. Unlike dealerships and chain businesses, mobile auto repair services tend to have less overhead and are able to pass those savings on to you the consumer.

However finding a legitimate and reliable business that also has experience can be a challenging. If you follow these few tricks you can avoid being taken advantaged of.

Asking your mechanic about their experience is not a bad idea. A good mechanic will be able you give you a few references and the amount of years they have been in the industry. The amount of years does not always represent how good of a mechanic they are. You may even go as far as asking for references and their earlier places of work.

The mobile auto repair service has to follow the same state regulations as a brick and mortar building and register with the state. Your states department of motor vehicles will have these businesses posted on their website if they are a legal business. Make sure you look around when the business gets there for the license should be posted where you can see it.

Before any services are rendered the mechanic must have a signed invoice. The invoice gives the mechanic permission required by the state to work on your car. It also secures the repairs for the customer and the mechanic service.

Completion of job should always be done before the mechanic ask for payment. Since the invoice secures the payment you should never offer to pay upfront. Prepayment request put you in danger of this being a illegal business.

When you hire a mobile mechanic it can make getting your repairs done more time and money-efficient, however take the time to check up on they repair service first.




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