As you may have heard, car owners who go to independent repair shops pay less and are more satisfied than those who go to dealer service departments. However, This rule works only if you you find a good repair team and learn to deal with them in the most effective way. You would even want to give your car worth hundreds of thousand to a quark. So how do you know a competent independent mechanic for your car? Just follow these tips.

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Toward that double goal, with the help of automotive service experts we have developed five questions to ask a repair shop you are considering or have been using. The questions:

1. Do you work on my car make?

Almost any shop will work on cars from Ford, Chevrolet and other General Motors brands and probably Honda and Toyota. But if you have a German-made car, for instance, mechanics may need specialized knowledge and tools. A specialist shop might work on cars from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Mini (owned by BMW), Audi and Volkswagen. You don't want to waste time with........Click here to read more