J & P Smog

its not my vehicels but my kids grandparents, that go to them. it was a family friend that owened it but no longer do. but them seem to think that they must be loyal to the shop. plus there english isn't 100%. thats why this seems to keep happening. there never happy with the shop. but keep going so i thought this would be the next best. besides that any time i can i'm maken repairs for them to keep them from going back to the shop. to often its ones the shop just worked on, and if anything made worse then before. by the way i'm not a mechanic and i'd rather not do more then an oil change first one i know of, was one at the end i was replaceing a brand new radiator (smaller) hose. at the time didn't know it had/should of just been replace a day or 2 earlier. with no more then 40min of run time on the car after this so call repair. fluid was every place but in the cool system. so i'd took a look got it fixed for less then 4dollars. and what i thought took me more time then it should of 35 min to install/(clean fitting). it was not to easy to get to. plus i'd had very little in tools. didn't know i'd be doing repairs. the hose wasn't even the right hose. it feel apart and well i'd like to say bonded it's self to the fitting. man that was hard to clean off. once i'm done i find out the fix a flat the car was at the shop for turned in to the shop telling her the car has a leak. should they take a look. so they did. i know it wasn't leaking i'd just checked all the fluids and they were full.and at that point i found the flat tire she took in to get fixed. turned into an included $300 bill for this hose i just got done with replacing. the next time they took the car in they got an estimate of a little over 3k. i'd seen the bill and said bleep no. well i'd got the parts axle/cam shaft, pinion and a few others it cost around 400 didn't turn cores in. the final bill for just labor was very close to 10% of th estimate. explain a dif of more then 2k. so you'll never see my truck there. shoot they don't even know the name of man of the parts. or what they should be looking for many of the time. final word is there NO GOOD. you'd be better off at the dealerships and let them rip you off. at least that was you'll be getting oem parts and a name to drag in the dirt if not happy with service