Friday, December 3, 2010

RepairPal

"We take the mystery out of auto repair!" -- RepairPal says.

What does RepairPal give you?
-- RepairPal gives you independent and unbiased repair estimates, user ratings and reviews, plus advice you can't get anywhere else.

It's easy, accurate, and .. you know what the best part is? It's all FREE!

Convinced by this already and wanted to try it for yourself? But don't know how it works? I'll tell you how.

We have these sections, namely, the RepairPrice Estimates, Shop Directory, My Car, Car Info, and Encyclopedia. Now, what are these sections for?

RepairPrice Estimates gives us comparison between this estimating tool's estimated price and a specific repair job's price for a repairwork, to make sure that the customer is getting a fair deal. They'll show us what to expect and what to look out for when we have the service or repair performed.

Shop Directory shows us a directory of shops across the area. We enter a city or zip code, then we're free to search for shops in a place that fits our needs, for cars, and a whole lot more! They also have user ratings and reviews, so that they'll know who has happy and satisfied customers!

My Car is where we store all of our service and repair information for all of our vehicles. This could be a handy tool for those who wants to have improvement on their vehicles, especially that these service and repair information could be really reliable as what this website tells us. We could learn a lot about how to improve one's vehicle, or what actually are possible things we could do to make some improvements.

Car Info is simply where we could find information about a car, only that it's from people who have actually tried using it.

Take this page for example: http://repairpal.com/chevrolet-silverado_1500-2005
It describes a car branded as Chevrolet Silverado, then as you can also see, it shows ratings, and comments from customers too, (which we also call as their respective reviews of the product) whether they are good or bad. Well, this also provides people freedom to express what they think of the product, whether it needs improvement or it just needs to maintain its wellness in providing its purpose. This section of the site has a forum-like setting, with people rating something and having lots of things to say about it, or it could also be like a polling process wherein we determine the satisfaction of the product by its ratings and reviews, then some may also determine which would be the best product by looking through these statistics.

This section simply shows us which cars would satisfy our needs, through the opinions of people who have encountered and tried the cars.

Encyclopedia, just like the usual use of it as we all know, it gives us vast knowledge about different topics, only that this encyclopedia only focuses on auto repair and vehicles. It basically gives us more knowledge about the parts and systems of a vehicle, and some helpful hints on car care that would make it easy to do so.

Take this page for example: http://repairpal.com/brake-rotor-replacement
As you can see, vehicle parts and systems are shown to be selected to know more about them. What was selected in this page is the "Brake Rotor/Disc Replacement", and if you take a look at the selection below the menu of parts and systems of vehicles, it tells us what is Brake Rotor/Disc Replacement, what it's for, how we actually do the kind of replacement, the practices, and symptoms that tell us that we need to do the replacement process on it.

We could also find pages promoting a certain auto repair shop, like this page: http://repairpal.com/dallas-auto-repair
, which tells us about how much the place needs the repair shop because of some common problems of vehicles caused by hot humid air and the moisture in the air, like problems in electrical connections, fuse panels, relays, and many, many more! This page also tells us more about Dallas, it's location, and economic status.

So, this is how RepairPal could be a source of answers to our auto repair concerns!



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Diary of a Short Girl said...

That website was EXTREMELYYY helpful since I just had a sort of car accident! Great blog!

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