Let me tell you about a place that sucks.
It goes by the name Skyline Automotive located near Bailey’s Crossroads in the great state of Virginia.
Skyline Automotive: The Place That Sucks
The guy that I usually deal with is Victor. He actually seems like a nice guy. He’s really genuine and expresses sadness and concern when he relays to you the extremely overinflated price of your repairs.
I don’t blame young Victor personally. All he can do is punch “busted power steering pump” into the computer and the computer tells him $1100. I don’t know what it takes to change a power steering pump so $1100 sounds fair enough I guess.
But I don’t want to pay $1100. So I decide to take it elsewhere and see what they say.
I took my lovely vehicle to a Chrysler dealer. It’s silly to go to a dealer, you say. It has to be more than $1100, you say.
You’d be wrong.
The price for a power steering pump at a Chrysler dealer was a smidge over $700.
THAT’S A $400 DIFFERENCE TO DO THE SAME EXACT THING!!!
That’s a big enough difference to decide to never to go back again.
That wasn’t the first time…
I could see if that was the only thing that Skyline Automotive tried to bilk me over. You’d say, why is he riffing on this place. They just charge more to do this one thing.
I took my car there a few months ago and they told me I needed a new serpertine belt. Skyline Automotive wanted to charge me about $1000 for it. I didn’t believe in paying that much for something I’ve never heard of before so I took my car to Firestone. They only charged me about $500.
But back to the latest story. Along with this power steering pump, Skyline Automotive told me that my water pump was leaking and it would cost $1200 to replace. That was extremely fishy to me since the water pump was replaced about a year ago. When I took it to the Chrysler dealer, I asked them to check the water pump for leaks or anything. Guess what my friend…
THEY FOUND NOTHING!!!
Skyline Automotive must have seen that they have an extra water pump in the back and decided to try to dump it off on me. Silly boys.
They don’t know what year my car is.
One last thing. My car is a 2001 Chrysler thingamajig. Whenever I go to the lovely Skyline Automotive, they always punch it up as a 2003. I tell them that it’s a 2001 everytime and everytime they tell me no it says it right here that it’s a 2003. Right here meaning in the computer where they punched it in incorrectly the first time I came.
You’d think if all you do is work with cars, you’d know a way to figure out what the year is. Like type the VIN number into their computer. Or look at the OWNER’s MANUAL.
They have the gall to call themselves “The Washington Metropolitan Area’s Most Trusted Automotive Shop”. The audacity of some people.
In summation, stay away from Skyline Automotive unless you love being lied to, cheated, conned, swindled, tricked, flimflammed, hoaxed, given a snow job, fast shuffled, and of course, ripped-off.
Thank you for your time.
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DUDE, that was the funniest shyt EVER. An extra water pump in the back!!?!?!??!?! and they dont even know the year, how they gon tell YOU, like you dont DRIVE IT EVERY DAY!!!!!!! hillllaireeus
I bet they would’ve all been laughing and clinking their champagne glasses together the entire time while they were putting a new water pump in the place of a perfectly fine water pump.
lol…I just experienced a similar problem. Told I needed new parts that someone else should last me for another 100,000 miles. And then another part this one place wanted to charge me $500 more than the guy I went to. Luckily I know when I’m being hustled, or at least I think I do lol.
Dude,
Order the part off of the internet. You will save a ton of money. Go to craiglist, find a guy that does mechanical work on the side. He will install it for like $40 an hour. I was once told my bill would be $1300 at the dealer. Did the craigslist thing and got it all done for $350 and it is perfect. I can give you a name if needed.
Sarah: I could tell when old Vic was trying to pull something because for the normal stuff, he’d look right at me and tell me. For the made-up things he’d be looking at the computer screen or looking down at some papers or something. It was like he didn’t remember what he made up or he just couldn’t look me in the eyes. That’s the one benefit of dealing with the same person each time.
Mark: I wish I had talked to you before about that. I had it done before I posted this. But for what I needed done, he would’ve had to take out the engine and those such things. I wouldn’t have let some rando off craigslist take my engine out of my car just to say, “Hmmm… now where does this thing go???”