Appalachia Towing & Recovery

If you have the misfortune to have your car towed here: don’t stay! Pay the money to get towed to a different shop. We broke down twice as a direct result of work done at this place.
Our alternator quit during a cross-​country trip, and Appalachia towed us to their shop. They were speedy with the repair, but 2 hours down the road we broke down again with the same bad-​alternator-​like symptoms. We limped off the highway to a Checkers auto store, where we found out that the battery was dead. Apparently, the Appalachia mechanic had not tested it, even though it’s the typical cause of an alternator failure.
After getting a new battery we made it exactly 37 miles before breaking down a third time: the alternator belt had snapped. The mechanic we saw for that problem said that the Appalachia mechanic had tightened the belt so much that he had bent the tensioner bolt.
So, yeah. Wonderful front office woman, friendly guard dog, lousy service.