Shopping Around for Car Repairs
November 14, 2008 by Miranda Marquit
Filed under Finance
Yesterday, I mentioned that we needed to have the car looked at. It has been showing signs of needing some sort of attention for a few months now, with a sort of “hiccup” as we’ve been idling. Yesterday, things went up a notch with a rather violent series of hiccups that almost resulted in the car “turning off.” Anyway, I drove it to the GM dealer, since I couldn’t think of where else to take it for a thorough and model-specific diagnostic.
This was a mistake that was, happily, rectified some hours later.
After running the tests, I received a call telling …read more




