Heading West, Plan B

[CanoeStream]

Originally Posted by jacarape

An idea for a sticky thread may be good places along the road for repairs.

Here is my first experience:

Bradely Thompson's Automotive
7378 Beatline Rd
Long Beach-MS 39560
(228) 865-9971

Michael, that's an interesting idea. My experience with threads is that the response won't saturate the country and the results will be difficult to present in a logical manner. Car Talk already does this on a website -- Car Talk Mechanics Files. Check it out and add your input. You get to give reasons why you liked their service, etc. Users of the site get easy search based on zip code.

[jacarape]

Hi Bob, I see what you mean on the difficulty of organizing teh data in a logical manner. It could end up being a mass of useless info strewn across multiple threads. After looking at Car Talk, much of the info is way out of date an incomplete.

One possible format would to ask the garage/mechanic/dealer fill out a form (gawd I hate forms) with the intent of them knowing they were being critiqued and providing information for the world's most important web site . Then we could post the result by State.

This is probably a good idea, but maybe not good enough to implement. Michelle would have an idea if it would have been usefull, for me it might have been also. It would have been difficult with my 25' Safari with it's butt sticking out into the road to jump on the internet and look for a place to tow it to. Though I did have time, a VzN Aircard, and I would have saved myself 100 bucks.

Maybe not really practical for this forum, does anyone else have an opinion pro or con?