Today I was looking at Consumer Reports online, and I saw that they have a feature called "Car Repair Assistant", which will give you estimates of common major repairs, given make/model and your zip code.
It's "driven" by a site repairpal.com. I'd be curious if any of the other forum members (better yet, Scotty himself) would be willing to offer an opinion on the prices and recommendations provided (you need a Consumer Reports subscription to look at the Consumer Report site, but not the Repairpal.com site). I haven't bought a lot of repairs, so I'd like other opinions.
https://repairpal.com/estimator
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-repair-assistant/
It’s hit or miss.
I usually use repairpal as a guide, but also call around different mechanics and even the dealer.
I agree with mountainmanjoe here. Repairpal has highly inflated estimates.
On the whole, CR seems less credible, in general, with each passing year.
Should be easy enough to check the accuracy. We could compare our mechanic bills to what they say. Unfortunately it's USA only.
OK I just checked it's completely unreliable. I paid $56 for an alignment on my Astro. Repairpal says $252 to $307
Their quotes are all over the place. They seem inflated for basic services like @mountainmanjoe was saying, and definitely low on big ticket items.
