Recently I noticed some drive belt noise when driving my car, and one of my friends told me this place where he got his alternator replaced and he thought it was reasonable priced. So I drove my car here. They checked it and quote me $400+ to fix the problem. This includes removing the tensioner, and they estimate to be 1 hour labor. Definitely crazy - everyone knows this would only take less than 30min. I said I need some time to make a decision; and when I checked out 30min later, they charged me for this 30min as labor. They did not even do a thing to my car in this 30min. Crazy. Later I checked the belt myself (by spraying water - it's simple and effective, just search on youtube) and found out it should just be a misalignment problem; yet they want to replace the pulley and the whole assembly which costs $200+ for the parts. Crazy. I felt I was ripped off. Fortunately that was only $70+ instead of $400+. Overall, I sincerely recommend that you do NOT service your car here. I was hoping that I finally found a trustworthy and reasonably priced auto repair business in Lafayette area; unfortunately, this one is not.
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