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Advance Muffler & Brake received 26 consumer ratings from Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports subscribers.
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185 Broadway
Cambridge, MA
Phone: 617-354-0101
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CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).
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As You Can See Below, Some Auto Repair Shops Get High Praise from Their Customers.
Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments
CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Auto Repair Shops.
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Subscriber from ARLINGTON, MA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Honest. Great work........
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Subscriber from WINCHESTER, MA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Have used them for 28 years. They are honest & reliable........
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Subscriber from BEDFORD, MA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Please note, they are no longer in Burlington. THey are now in Bedford........
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Subscriber from JAMAICA PLAIN, MA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Good at preventive maintenance.......
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Subscriber from GLOUCESTER, MA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Cost high - charge over list for parts but helpful and reliabile.......
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Subscriber from BOSTON, MA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Andy has maintained superior service, reasonable prices and a personal touch for over thirty years...........
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Subscriber from NEWBURY, MA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Great group of people - been going there for may years.......
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Subscriber from MEDFORD, MA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
They performed admirably and it cost less than they originally estimated........
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