Subaru shops in the Seattle to Marysville, WA area? I need my 2.5L head gaskets done.

[Rooinater]

Ok, there is no more limping my Forester along and I need to get the head gaskets done. It pressurized the coolant system enough to put a hole in the newer radiator... I now live in an apartment in Seattle, so I don't have a place to work on it, and I start school at the UW in a week, so I don't have the time either. The car is presently up in Marysville, so the least amount of miles that I have to trailer the car the better, but I still would prefer a quality shop as well. Thanks in advance.

[Legacy777]

Bump.

 

Anyone help him out with a suggested shop. I know there's a lot of PNW people on this board.

 

You may also want to ask in the meet & greet forum if you don't get any response here.

[GeneralDisorder]

If you want to bring it down to me I'll save you more than enough to cover the trailering costs - if a drive to Portland is something you would consider. I charge $35/hr and no markup on parts.

 

GD

[Subruise]

Roopair in tacoma washington. i dunno if you want to drive that far but those guys are where its at.

 

 

RV

[bstone]

  GeneralDisorder said:

If you want to bring it down to me I'll save you more than enough to cover the trailering costs - if a drive to Portland is something you would consider. I charge $35/hr and no markup on parts.

 

GD

 

I don't mean to sound rude or too inquisitive, but how do you charge 35/hr? The shop I'm with does 65 and we're considered super cheap.

[Mike104]

I don't know my PNW geography very well but this place has one shop in Shoreline and Mukilito, WA

 

http://www.smart-service.com/index.html

 

If Kirkland, WA is near, there is this location:

 

http://allwheeldriveauto.com/

 

I don't have any experience with either shop, but they do have good reviews. I would expect that taking it to GD would probably be a lower cost than either of the ones mentioned above.

[edrach]

PM'd about a shop in Snohomish.

[renob123]

There are a lot of decent shops in the Seattle-ish area. To find the best one for the job, I'd ask edrach on here. He seems to have been to them all.

 

With a trailer and time, going to GD would be a very good option too.

 

Jacob

[renob123]

  edrach said:

PM'd about a shop in Snohomish.

 

Grr, you beat me to it while I was eating:)

 

Jacob

[edrach]

  renob123 said:

Grr, you beat me to it while I was eating:)

 

Jacob

You mean you stop to eat before checking the internet?

[GeneralDisorder]

  bstone said:

I don't mean to sound rude or too inquisitive, but how do you charge 35/hr? The shop I'm with does 65 and we're considered super cheap.

 

I'm independant. No overhead, no employees - just me.

 

$65 is cheap as shops go - but you have to pay people that don't actually wrench. I doubt that YOU personally make $65/Hr right? I charge $35/Hr because that's MY salery. The quality of my work is also generally higher than most shops. Ask the people here that know how I operate.

 

GD