Went to the Cobble Hill Service center back on 3/9/12 to get a NYS inspection not realizing that it had expired just a week before. Keeping in mind that my car is 3 years old and has less than 40,000 miles on it I thought there would be no issues as I rarely drive the car and do mostly highway driving when I use it. Turns out that three hours after I dropped my car off, I received a phone call stating that there were all of these things that they claimed were wrong with my vehicle. Long story short, they failed my car for inspection because they said my rear brakes were shot and the car was unsafe to drive. This is a lie as my father is a mechaninc and had it up on a lift 2 months before to put new tires on it. I took my car home (three hours away) a few days later to a mechanic who has looked after my vehicle for years before I moved down to the city and it turns out that I had 2/3's left on my brake pads that equals about 20,000 more miles that I can get out of them before they need to be replaced. This place is a scam and they are not honest people. DO NOT TRUST THEM!! THEY WILL LIE TO GET WHATEVER THEY CAN OUT OF YOU!! Unfortunately, they only got me for $37 for the FAILED inspection that they gave. It could have been worse. I wish I had looked up the reviews on this place before I threw my money and time down the drain.
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