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Costelli & Pardinis Auto Body & Paint Works received 19 consumer ratings from Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports subscribers.

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Area's highest-rated auto body shop:
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Costelli & Pardinis Auto Body & Paint Works : Find out at CHECKBOOK
Area's lowest-rated auto body shop:
37% 37%
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Costelli & Pardinis Auto Body & Paint Works
2002 Palm Ave
San Mateo, CA
Phone: 650-571-7001


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What can Consumers' CHECKBOOK tell you about Costelli & Pardinis Auto Body & Paint Works?
CHECKBOOK Ratings
Number of customer survey ratings for Costelli & Pardinis Auto Body & Paint Works: 19 ratings
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Sample Subscriber Comments & Reviews for Auto Body Shops in the San Francisco Bay Area
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).

As You Can See Below, Some Auto Body 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 Body Shops.

  • Subscriber from MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA wrote about a local auto body shop: Staff very friendly,helpful, courteous. Helped me greatly with insurance matters and maximized my benefits........
  • Subscriber from OAKLAND, CA wrote about a local auto body shop: Good for Prius repair.......
  • Subscriber from MENLO PARK, CA wrote about a local auto body shop: I was extremely impressed with this shop which is AAA rated. The personnel are extremely..........
  • Subscriber from SAN FRANCISCO, CA wrote about a local auto body shop: Straight talkers; in business a long time, and I now trust them. Tactfully pointed out..........
  • Subscriber from SANTA CRUZ, CA wrote about a local auto body shop: Tom does small repairs only; his is not a full body shop. Tom does chip..........
  • Subscriber from SAN JOSE, CA wrote about a local auto body shop: Did great work on my Motherinlaws Prius . The paint job looked just like the..........
  • Subscriber from CONCORD, CA wrote about a local auto body shop: Good shop for body work........
  • Subscriber from SARATOGA, CA wrote about a local auto body shop: An excellent body shop, with nice people........
  • Subscriber from LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA wrote about a local auto body shop: Went out of the way to accommodate an illness when we could not get car........

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