So, I've always had issues with finding shops. I do approximately 99% of my own car work ranging from mods to maintenance. The exception is tire installs, alignments, gears and finish body work. Anyways, it seems every time I try to find a shop I end up with some sheisters. I have my alignment guys, tire guys and gear guys which have all done multiple jobs for me but not without finding a couple of sheisters along the way.
On my Mustang I'm considering the possibility of reinforcing or upgrading the torque boxes (part of the unibody where the rear control arms connect). Other than just starting to call around to body shops in the area I simply have no idea how or where to find the type of place that would A) do this and B) do this well. What do you guys do when you need to find a top notch shop like this?
Now, I'm not working on a show car, but I'm neither a body man nor welder and would consider this a fairly critical task to delegate to the so-called professionals. Like I've said, on the rare occasion I've taken my car(s) in for work, the results were either sub-par or they attempted to outright fleece me... I don't know too many people who are as mechanically adept as I am and of those fewer have a dedicated weekend car that would receive this type of repair.
On my Mustang I'm considering the possibility of reinforcing or upgrading the torque boxes (part of the unibody where the rear control arms connect). Other than just starting to call around to body shops in the area I simply have no idea how or where to find the type of place that would A) do this and B) do this well. What do you guys do when you need to find a top notch shop like this?
Now, I'm not working on a show car, but I'm neither a body man nor welder and would consider this a fairly critical task to delegate to the so-called professionals. Like I've said, on the rare occasion I've taken my car(s) in for work, the results were either sub-par or they attempted to outright fleece me... I don't know too many people who are as mechanically adept as I am and of those fewer have a dedicated weekend car that would receive this type of repair.
