My GF drives a toyota Camry. She's been taking it to the dealer but I hate that place. Does anyone know of an honest competent shop around raleigh/cary?

2/14/2006 5:54:21 PM

Merchants Tire in cary off of cary parkway (the one on Town Village Dr)

2/14/2006 6:11:19 PM

just out of curiosity, why do you hate them?

2/14/2006 6:11:42 PM

Happy Jap's off of Johnson St (over behind Woody's on Chapel Hill Rd) in Cary. 467-2884. Tell'em Superfly sent you, then duck.

Of course, I do quite a bit Camry-wise. They're one of my favorite cars to work on.

2/14/2006 7:35:17 PM

Thanks! As for why I hate them.... have you ever paid 130.00 for an oil change and airfilter change? Oh and they're dickheads too.

2/14/2006 10:57:29 PM

nigga's got to feed the kids

2/15/2006 12:16:06 AM

i do agree ole chap. camrys are one of the easiest cars to work on

2/15/2006 12:17:31 AM

fred anderson service dept used to rip off my girls mom every time the camry went up there.

2/15/2006 12:47:20 AM

i can hook you up in hoffman estates, il with a very good cost - drive up

2/15/2006 12:49:01 AM

wow, didnt know Camry was so easy. Maybe I'll work on it myself. Think its easier to work on than my E30?

2/15/2006 1:07:07 AM

i get my oil changed at greenville toyota for 17 bucks. u can barely do it urself for that much. i mean of course theyve tried to do dumb shit, but just tell them no. its not hard ot not get ripped off. hell they even do shit for free(small stuff) sometimes if i ask them how much and then be like what the hell it takes 5 secs.

2/15/2006 2:33:05 AM

^ can you give some specifics on how to get to this place?

2/15/2006 4:59:23 PM

I have used both Happy Japs and Phils Toy Store on chatham st. in cary for my Toyota. Happy Japs was okay initially Advised me to do unnecessary repairs and then decided to try Phils. Pleased with Phils Toy store who advised properly and did a good job.

2/15/2006 5:06:12 PM

its greenville, so its not worth driving there, but i live there so...

2/15/2006 5:09:33 PM

phils tried unnecc. repairs on my gf's old camry

i have a friend at a local dealership but i dont share my hookups over the wolf web so youre out of luck there

2/15/2006 7:13:49 PM

^^^That ain't like Rex at all. If anything, he doesn't recommend doing enough.

You sure you know what's going on, and what's necessary?

2/15/2006 10:13:32 PM

Actually come to think of it, it was the other way around.

I went to get a tranny flush on my 04 4runner, and the guy told me that it had a sealed tranny, and never needed to be flushed.

And the reason I needed it flushed was because when I went to change the oil, I accidentally opened the tranny plug instead of the oil plug and lost a few quarts of tranny fluid before i realized what I did. b/c no one but the toyota dealer had typeIV fluid, I put typeIII in just to get it to a shop to get it all flushed.

Long story short, Wayne at Phil's Toy store took care of it.

2/16/2006 8:59:16 AM

I took my (now sold) Celica to Happy Japs several times and was pretty happy with the service.

-ZiP!-

2/16/2006 9:14:49 AM

haha you opened your tranny plug

on my car, i'd be lucky to uncork my tranny plug with a 3 foot breaker bar

2/16/2006 9:21:59 AM

i've heard good things about Happy Jap's and Phil's Toy Store.

i personally take my supra to Gary Gordon (244-1042) who works on hondas and toyotas. he does good work for cheap. he's currently rebuilding my diff.

2/16/2006 10:30:10 AM

Phil's charges $45 for oil and filter change

don't think I will be going there

2/17/2006 12:09:51 PM

^Every time I see your username, I think about this: "Yo mama got a wooden leg with a kickstand."

2/17/2006 1:59:40 PM