St Louis Hills Auto / Cahokia, Illinois

Rating: ★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Automobile Diagnostic Service, Automobile Inspection Stations & Services

Address: 5300 Hampton Ave, Cahokia

Postal code: 63109

Phone: (314) 658-9257

Peace of mind. Towing you can trust.

Midnight Blue Towing & Recovery provides customers in the Crown Point area with a variety of services, including wheel lift towing and flatbed service. Established for more than 15 years, this family-owned-and-operated company has the expertise to offer you first class equipment and the best towing service, from small cars to large semis. Midnight will be there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with just the roadside service you need: ?ˆ? Wheel lift towing ?ˆ? 5th wheel trailer towing ?ˆ? Jump starts ?ˆ? Flat bed service ?ˆ? Semi truck towing ?ˆ? Lockouts If it?ll fit on our truck, we?ll move it?from pianos and hot tubs to even a house! Call Midnight Blue Towing & Recovery to learn more about our services.

Reviews:

The Mechanics at St Louis Hills Auto are great, they fixed my coolant leak in a timely manner and under budget.

bjd8751 / 5/5/2013

This place has changed management recently, so the previous positive reviews are no longer applicable. Unfortunately, I did not know this until I had already taken my car here. I discovered an oil leak under my car on a Monday morning. I called a few places and this place quoted me a good price, was close, and could work on my car that day. So, I took my car there and had them look at it. They said that the leak was ... view morecoming from somewhere in the timing belt case and that they would have to tear into it to find out exactly what the problem was. I left my car there overnight, and the next afternoon they called me back and said I needed a new oil pump and that it would cost me over $1000. I am a poor college student and don`t have this kind of money, so, I did some research and discovered that oil pumps themselves rarely go out and that a much more common problem is for a 5 dollar gasket in the pump to wear out. I also found out that if the pump itself had been bad, I would have lost oil pressure and had my oil light on the dash come on rather than just having a leak. So, I called the mechanic back and told him all of this. He then said that he knew this, but that no where sold just the gasket because my car is old (96), and that he called everywhere to ask this and that the only option was to buy the whole pump. After he told me this, I looked up a diagram of the pump and got parts numbers for all the seals and gaskets in it. A two minute online search and an equally short couple of phone calls, and I discovered that every auto parts store in town has all of the seals and gaskets in stock in a variety of brands for, you guessed it, around 5 dollars apiece. So, I called the mechanic back and confronted him with this information and he kept changing his story. He told me that he now thought it was a crack in the housing of the pump and not the gaskets. I told him that if this were the case, I would have lost oil pressure. Then he said the only way he could warrantee his work was if I let him put on the new oil pump and that he didn`t know if he could tear into the old pump and put it back together right, and blah, blah, blah. At this point, I told him not to do anything else and that I would get the car the next morning. I was going to have it towed to another garage. He called me back later that night with yet another story about how he was going the extra mile and wanted to look at it one more time just to save me as much money as possible and it turns out that the gaskets I found will work and that the people he called looking for parts are all idiots because they gave him bad information. At this point, I was afraid of him leaving my car in a million pieces or of making him mad and having him sabotage something, so, I told him to go ahead and fix it. It ended up being around $400, and seems to be okay for now. I just hope it stays that way. While this place seemingly did the right thing in the end, the bottom line is that they tried to put one over on me and got caught. I am sure this place has done this before and gotten away with it and I am sure that they will do it again. So, be advised, I would avoid this place for anything more than an inspection or an oil change. In fact, I plan to avoid it all together because I don`t like the idea of giving my hard-earned money to liars and swindlers.

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MN3401 / 1/16/2013