The real horror story though was at Nick's ********.

Nothing against them but here's what happened.

My wife (at the time) followed me down to the shop in the bad bad tenderloin neighborhood, and that is where the trouble began.

As I recall they were on O Farrell Street, which runs, a one way street, with absolutely no, I repeat NO parking, anywhere on the street, inbound to SF downtown, from 6AM -9 am, they can and will ticket and tow.

Problem is though, Nick is the only one with the keys to open up the shop,
and he lives in San Mateo, a good 45 minutes away on the Peninsula, and NEVER opens the shop for business before 9:00am, not ever, and who can predict the traffic into downtown any given day - it could be great or awful!

So my wife is behind me in her car and it is almost 8:45 am and we are both circling around the block over and over again because no one is there and we can't park and wait cause we will get tickete3d or towed, finally he arrives just before 9:00am so we pull up behind him as he pulls up to the door in his W116 sedan, opens the door, he drives instead and a 3 wheeled Meter maid scooter pulls up and presents BOTH me and my wife EACH with our own summons for STOPPING in a no stopping zone, they have a new handheld laser device that can zap you from a block away, and that is what she di, got both of us at once, so we are out over $100 and she has us dead to rights and we haven't even got in, and my wife is pissed because for all this she missed being at work in Sunnyvale 50 miles away that morning.

It gets worse! The driveway from the street to Nick's shop on the 2nd floor is very steep and skinny and the shop is jammed and it is VERY hard to drive or maneuver a lowered 560SEC around so I pick up the car after the suspension spheres are repaired and when I get to work, the whole rear side on the left has been scraped up and yellow paint all over everything, I had to go back, and make them pay for this, more trouble getting estimates at body shops

Now you run A MERCEDES BENZ repair shop I wouldn't make the customer go through all that, in the GHETTO, just to get aq car fixed. Seems he's just made it too hard for a harried busy customer to get his car fixed. Bad location, bad everthing. But repairs just fine!!

I still shudder at the memories. Just can't recommend them, sorry!

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