From: whitney@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (David Whitney GDP)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Toyota repair: Summary
Date: 6 Nov 92 02:10:25 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Thanks to all who responded.  Thses are the compiled responses to my
inquiry for Toyota repair in the Menlo Park/Palo Alto/Mt View area.
I take no responsibility for any recommendations.  I ended up at Kurts who seemed to be a good guy, but boy is repairing a Toyota expensive these days.  
e.g. '87 Camry headlight = $150+.

-Dave

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From: susanl@cory.berkeley.edu (Susan Levine)

I have a friend who loves Kurt's.  I have an 89 MR2 which
I faithfully took to Toyota of Palo Alto while I was living
there.  They were just great - in my opinion worth
the extra $$, but the cost may be prohibitive if you
really need a lot of work done.

susan

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From: geoff@netcom.com (Geoffrey Leach)

 take my Toyota truck to Mountain View Foreign Car Service, 2490 Old
 Middlefield Rd. 964-9282.  They appear competent.

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From: altinbay@netcom.com (John Altinbay)

Bela's Auto Sports on Moffett Blvd., about a block away from 
Central Expressway.  415-962-8200.  He's been servicing my
80 Corolla for years.  Tell Bela I sent you.
-- 
John Altinbay   -   altinbay@netcom.com

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From: olsen@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Diane Olsen)

I've been taking my Corolla to Northwest Auto (Tom Hickey, sole 
proprietor) in Palo Alto since 1984.  Tom's not cheap, but he's
a perfectionist and a master diagnostician.  Definitely a cut
(or two) above Toyota Palo Alto, which tried to pull a Sears
on me last time I was there.  (I needed some emergency radiator
work, and Tom was booked.  TPA tried to talk me into replacing
the whole damned car piece by piece.)

Northwest Auto
Corner of Charleston & Fabian, Palo Alto
415-967-2453

BTW, if you need a cheap replacement car for a day or two, 
there's a place about two doors down from NW Auto that has a
special $17.95/day "My-car-is-in-the-shop" rate:

ACar Rent-A-Car
870 E. Charleston Rd. (near San Antonio)
415-494-8383

--Diane

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From: jhw@cup.portal.com

Hi David - When I moved to Menlo Park about a year and a half ago, I took
my 83 Celica to Toyota of Palo Alto. I can't be specific but I definitely
felt like I got ripped off. Through an auto mechanic classmate I was 
steered (no pun intended) to C&T Automotive on Palm St. in San Mateo. The
owner Chris is great and the work and rates are top notch. Since I have no
one to ferry me there, I go to a C&T and then rent a car from Dollar. They
have a $20 daily rate and they pick you up (and later deliver you) right
at C&T. I just count the $20 as part of fixing my car.

Jim Weissman
(now in Redwood City)
jhw@cup.portal.com

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From: mkoblas@nas.nasa.gov (Michelle R. Koblas)

You'll probably hear this a lot.  There's a summary that's been floating
around the net for a few years now (compiled by Ben Fathi (sp?) previously
at MIPS) that I got this recommendation from...

Yarnell's in Mountain View.  They're on the corner of Evelyn and Pioneer.
They only work on Toyotas and Datsuns and I really like the work they do
on my '89 Toyota Corolla!  Their number is (415)969-9018.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Michelle

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