Are You Safe?? Best and Worst Cities for Auto Repair

AutoMD, an absolute and frontal online auto repair resource, has released its Advocacy for Repair Shop Fairness Report, which is giving light on how the top-50 most populated U.S. cities fender-bender the customers and clients when it comes to providing them with fair auto repair cost estimates. In the report, we got to gather some out of the blue results.

AutoMD.com had an unbiased check of over 600 auto workshops in the top-50 Designated Market Areas (which included dealers, independent shops, and franchises like Pep Boys) to measure pricing integrity and quality of work.

The best and worst list was then calculated based on each city‘s rankings for three critical factors, weighted equally:

1. Repair Affordability: The average cost-per-job for that city based on prices quoted by repair shops
2. Price Disparity Range: The percentage variance between the lowest price quoted and the highest price quoted in each market
3. Shop Integrity Factor: The percentage of shops that shifted their original quoted price by more than 5% when presented with an industry standard price estimate

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Source: AutoMD