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How does Mathewson's Automotive & Tire Rate?
Mathewson's Automotive & Tire received 48 consumer ratings from Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports subscribers.
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Mathewson's Automotive & Tire
271 Rainier Ave N
Renton, WA
Phone: 425-226-2965



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What can Consumers' CHECKBOOK tell you about Mathewson's Automotive & Tire?
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CHECKBOOK Ratings
Number of customer survey ratings: 48 ratings
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What percent of customers rated firm "superior" for "letting you know cost early"?
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Sample Subscriber Comments & Reviews for Auto Repair Shops in the Seattle (Puget Sound) 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 Repair Shops Get High Praise from Their Customers.
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