R & S Auto Body Inc / Tampa Palms, Florida

Rating: ★★★

29 years in Business

Auto Repair & Service, Automobile Body Repairing & Painting, Truck Body Repair & Painting

Address: 4102 N Armenia Ave, Tampa-Palms

Postal code: 33607

Phone: (813) 876-1913

He`s my Cottman man and he keeps me rolling along!

All Cottman Transmission and Total Auto Care centers abide by Cottman`s complete service philosophy, which calls for your vehicle to be repaired properly the first time, so that you don`t have to lose either time or money. Cottman`s Service Philosophy is the reason why millions of customers have trusted us to repair their vehicle`s transmissions over the past five decades. You see, at Cottman, we know you have more important things to worry about than your car. Cottman will never compromise its standards just to make a vehicle "superficially drivable." We will never perform a low quality service that would result in increased costs, inconvenience, and possible hazardous driving conditions for our customers. Cottman`s status, reputation, and growth are a direct result of our commitment to quality standards, parts, and customer service.

Categories:

Automobile Body Repairing & Painting, Auto Repair & Service, Truck Body Repair & Painting, Automobile Restoration-Antique & Classic

Neighborhoods:

Northwest Tampa

Open hours:

Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

Extra phones:

(813) 879-3370

Reviews:

In response to horrible experience

I have worked for R&S for 16 years. We have been in business since 1970. The customer that had the horrible experience did not lie.We did have a problem with that car but the tech that worked on it is no longer here and we have addressed what happened so it will not happen again.

griggin / 7/14/2010

Beautiful

I had a great experience with R&S. Any time i had a question about anything they were right there to answer it professionally and to the level of my knowledge without belittling me.

dugiwugi / 6/10/2010

Horrible Experience

After I was in a front-end collision, my auto insurance told me to bring my car to them. Worst mistake ever! They started out doing a poor job with the estimate, they missed several items and the final price for my insurance jumped about $2500 in the last week they had the car. They took a full month to make the repairs, and then when I got it back, within 24 hours the transmission (which had been fine before the acc... view moreident) started acting up. I brought it back to them and it took them 3 whole days to tell me that it was a coincidence, not related to the accident, and they could replace it for me at my cost for $1650. I brought it to AAMCO and they discovered that R&S had actually left a clamp on the transmission line when they were working on the rest of the engine, forgot to take it off when they were done the car, and this caused transmission fluid to not go to be cooled by the radiator, basically burning my transmission out. The clamp was still on there, even though they had had the car for 3 days they didn`t realize it! So then we had to work with their liability insurance, which was another nightmare - first they insisted we put in a used transmission instead of letting AAMCO rebuild it. That one turned out to be a piece of junk and with 72 hours I had to bring it back to AAMCO. Finally the liability company then agreed to let AAMCO rebuild it - knock on wood, it`s been two weeks now and the transmission is running great. But within a week of finally getting my car back (2 1/2 months after the accident) the seatbelt fell off (had been replaced by R &S - apparently they can`t even install those correctly) and we discovered a leak in the power steering fluid (that whole apparatus had also been replaced and worked on by R &S). I called them because their work was guaranteed, but since my insurance will no longer work with them due to my awful experience, they won`t work on the car and said I`d have to talk to my insurance about someone else. I wouldn`t recommend them to anyone!!! There was not one positive aspect to my entire experience with them.

jgranatino / 3/10/2010