C&D Tires & Auto Repair — Local services in Winter Park

I was referred to C&D by a friend. I went in to get my exhaust fixed. There was a section that had a hole and a crack in it from a pipe that I put in about two years ago. I was quoted $160 for the repair. Took about an hour or less. After i hot home i decided to look at the repair job. I probably should have looked at it there but whats done is done. The way I had it originally set up the muffler was a slip fit on both ends of the exhaust so I could change out the muffler whenever I need to. I was not impressed I figured Would be a professional flare on the pipe to go over the exhaust. The way they flared the pipe and it looks like they’ve been over with a hammer or a pair of pliers. Then they filled up the gap with a weld once they butted it up to the exhaust pipe. There is no nice flare where it slid over the pipe and then they just welded a nice seam. The other side where the muffler would slide over the pipe either apparently they couldn’t get the pipe out of the muffler or didn’t want to take the time to. They decided to pretty much whack off the pipe as close to the muffler as possible, and then did the same type of Flare, and welded it to my muffler. So now my muffler is no longer a slip fit. It is a cut off next time I need to change the muffler. Hopefully there is enough pipe there so the next time I put a muffler on it will slip over what they installed.

If it was going to cost a little bit more money for the extra time to be able to remove the pipe out of the muffler, if that was the case, I would rather have gone that way than weld the pipe directly to my muffler. So now only one in my muffler is a slit fit the other and is now welded to a pipe.

If they were to change the design of how I had my exhaust system setup or modify it differently. It would’ve been nice to have a little bit more communication from The Shop on what they were going to have to do. When they gave me the quote, I just figured they were going to do the set up the same way i had it.

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The service was pleasant Once I arrived however they told me it was going to cost me $350 for an exhaust leak that job only took an hour. I felt that abnormally High. I drove off thinking that the job was done and it was still more of a noise I took it to the dealership and they recognized that the welding C&D Auto was not sufficient there are holes and bubbling coming from the welding you can tell that the welding was a garbage job very amateur it wasn't a smooth weld it was bumpy I brought it in and they tell me because I was frustrated that did not going to do anything all of a sudden I have a manifold leak. The only people who came close to the manifold was the technician who did the welding. I'm calling the credit card company and disputing the charge I have pictures of it leaking from the welded area they didn't even want to look at the pictures of the leaking from the welded area. Then the technician told the girl in the front that I had a manifold leak or the manifold was loose I asked him how much would it cost to tighten it and he told the girl it doesn't matter he doesn't like that I came in there frustrated because of the welded pipe failure that his technician performed so I said okay I'm calling my credit card company to dispute the charge no one gets over on me especially not for...