Ugh and there goes the car....

My mom is from Texas and as today May 11th is her birthday I thought this fitting! She went the last week of April to visit her family and my grandparents made the pilgrimage home to Texas as well. She flew they drove. They arrived the same day in the Dallas area. They spent a few days there visiting and then decided to take a road trip of epic proportion! They set out to visit my uncle and new aunt and cousins in Houston and then on to San Antonio. While they were in Houston my uncles car an Acura TL started making a brake noise. I was talking to my mom while this was going on. She told me that they were really strapped for cash to make repairs. I told her about a site I had been on before it was : repair.com. On this site she could find all kinda of information about Houston Auto Repair.I told her that she could look up what the cost of the brake job should be and also what the oil change should cost. As soon as they got to house they went online and went to repairpal.com they were able to find the estimates and TONS of shops in the area. There were reviews of the shops from actual customers, all of the contact information for the shops was there and they were able to find a close shop that could do the work the same day. The shop that they chose did the work and actually came in a little under the estimate that my mom and uncle had gotten from the site. Over all they were quite impressed. I am so glad that I was able to help them out when they needed it!