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Albany Ford Subaru Saleen received 73 consumer ratings from Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports subscribers.
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929 San Pablo Ave
Albany, CA
Phone: 510-528-1244
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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 CASTRO VALLEY, CA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Hinkley does good work, but they are on the pricey side........
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Subscriber from BERKELEY, CA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Good dealer for service, only one small nit to pick about a complimentary oil change..........
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Subscriber from LOS ALTOS, CA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Have used then for maintenance of an 1990 Acura Legend LS........
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Subscriber from MORGAN HILL, CA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
The only people I trust with my tires, wheels, and suspension. The best - also..........
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Subscriber from WALNUT CREEK, CA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
very pricey, but know what they are doing........
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Subscriber from SAN FRANCISCO, CA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Ive taken my cars to Robert for many years and trust him completely........
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Subscriber from OAKLAND, CA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
Absolutely trustworthy........
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Subscriber from HEALDSBURG, CA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
You changed the name of the category from "Automobiles--Mechanical Repair Shops" on the checklist to..........
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Subscriber from DANVILLE, CA wrote about a local auto repair shop:
eduardo is reasonable, and if its not broke he wont try to replace it.......
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