Mufflers 4 Less

***CLOSED***
I’ve used them in the past year.
Drove over there recently for a muffler estimate on a different car and all signage gone. Called number and person who answered said they have been closed for about 8 mos.

I CAN’T GET OVER HOW AWESOME THEY ARE!
Several months ago, my muffler was coming off and in this city, I had trouble avoiding the screeching noise versus speed bumps. They were conveniently a train stop away. I dropped off my car an early morning, picked it up an hour or two later. The service was great, simple and the cost was at a great range.
Several months ago I realized with car was smoking at high speeds and I was told he’d find the parts and call me to drop off the car, it’d take him a day or so to have it ready.
A day before Christmas Eve, I dropped it off 11am, I have a voicemail at $ saying it’s ready.
I am honestly amazed by their service and their work, they are very professional, and they don’t overcharge you. I can’t imagine taking my car to another mechanic.

Great experience. Good cost, good people. Lucky if you find them!

Had my brakes done here last week. The works. Pads, Rotors. They did good, fast work. Reasonable pricing. The work also includes a 1 year warrenty for parts and labor.
I knew it wasn’t going to be cheap because I had the rotors machined 3 years ago, and you can only do that once before it’s time to replace them.
The E-​brake pad needed replacement, too, which they gave me an option, but I’m the type of person that just wants it fixed so I don’t have to worry about it later. This place is close to my home and my work, so it was very convenient to me. I probably could’ve gotten a little cheaper somewhere else, but convenince is always worth a little extra, in my opinion.
Very nice, hardworking employees here, too. Will probably go back for an oil change or anything else when the time comes. Nice to have a garage close by that I trust.

I don’t think I can describe how amazing this place is. I came upon them serendipitously I suppose because one Saturday night my car broke down and this was the nearest place I could be towed to that could fix mufflers. That week they replaced five parts under my car for a very affordable price. More recently I had more car trouble. I went to a place near my apartment and they found 3 parts that needed to be replaced and quoted me about $ 1200 I decided to go to these guys for a second opinion. for the exact same problems including service they quoted me $ 665!!! For the love of your car and you wallet see these people. They are super friendly too.

i phoned ahead, and explained my muffler needed to be looked at. i was told to just bring it in and they would be able to work on it that day. sure enough. i pulled up. they lifted it and showed me what was wrong and i was told it would cost $ 80 and 40 min to repair. one thing i really hate is taking my car in for repairs, because i know that oftentimes women are taken advantage of. but i was only charged $ 80 and my mechanic friend told me expect to pay $ 100. so i was treated more than fair. i had a great coffee from «big shoulders coffee» while i waited and i was on the road in no time. the front office lady was very friendly. i definitely would go back there.

i was in Chicago visiting and had to have a muffler and tail pipe replaced on a Saturday. they did it a VERY reasonable price. They also replaced the O2 sensor for only the cost of the part. (i knew this was a pre-​existing problem from a recent scan that i had done). they did not try to sell me anything else like the chain places do.
I do not know how they would do other repairs, but this guy KNOWS exhaust and is very honest. Its not a fancy place but it turned out to be a very positive experience.

This place is AMAZING! Shabby on the outside but excellent on the inside. My car broke down on the way to work the other morning. I went out to look at my car to see if I could identify the problem; I could see car part dragging on the ground. I called the repair shop, described problem and what I saw. The guy told me not to waste $$ on tow truck that I could drive in slowly but it would be loud so that’s what I did. When I got there the mechanic took his time and showed and explained to me what the problem was. I was in a desparate situation and I was not overcharged– repair cost $ 150 and my car was ready in less than 1 hour! Honest and friendly service! My car is now running very smoothly !! I have a new car place in Chicago!

After calling 4 muffler repair shops and being quoted over $ 400 over the phone, I called Mufflers 4 Less and was told to bring my car over to check out the problem. Instead of replacing the entire muffler, they repaired the one I have for a fraction of the price of the other repair shops and it was repaired in about a half hour. Finally, a repair shop I can trust in my neighborhood!

AVOID.
Early November, 2009, my Ford, which is getting up there in age, has engine problems. I take my car to Fernando here. In the past they had done some minor work – and oil change, fix a brake line – and had been fine. This time, when my car wouldn’t start and sounded like a tommy gun when the key was turned, I went back, mostly because the car was broken down across the street from Mufflers for Less, near my office.
Fernando tells me it’s the crankshaft, and that repairing the crankshaft is very labor intensive and the cost of labor will be so high on my engine, I’d be better off getting a new engine replaced. Yikes. How much? About $ 1200 for the engine and $ 1500 for the labor.
I asked, looking him in the eye,. «Be honest. Would you truly recommend I put this engine in my car?» «Yeah,» he said, «it’s a good engine.»
The engine had a six-​month warranty and 52K miles on it. Yesterday, after six months and two weeks, my car would not start and the engine sounded almost the same as the last one. I had it towed somewhere else, Wells Automotive, where Frank, who has been doing his job for 30 years and who appears to be treated with reverence by his co-​workers, told me the engine was dead, and that whoever sold me the engine was ripping me off. «This engine is junk» were his exact words.
I go back to Fernando, who suddenly can’t communicate with me, though every time in the past we have spoken with each other just fine. He has to have a giant translate to/​from Spanish and English. I ask to speak with the owner, and am told the manager is not in. But who’s the owner? Even now, hours later, I still don’t know. Who did you buy the engine from? Oh, we tried to call them 12 times, they’re not answering. After I badger them for the number, I call on my cell and get an answer in three rings. They won’t talk to me, though, only Fernando, and after about 20 minutes, they hand me back my cell and tell me that the company who sold me the engine said «six months is six months.»
So if you have an old car that you want to get a little more life out of, and want someone to lie to you and tell you it’s ok to try to stretch that car’s life when it’s probably not, and you want to blow $ 2500 for six months and fifteen days use from an engine, by all means, go to Mufflers For Less.
if you want to deal with someone who’s honest who will charge you about 4% as much to look at your car and say «It’s not worth you paying me to fix this», take it to Wells Automotive. They might not give you the illusion that they’re fixing your car, but they won’t lie to you either.

Took my Volkswagen Cabrio here for a muffler repair, The thing had basically rusted to pieces and fallen off.
Fernando jacked up the car and we checked out the muffler together. He showed me that he couldn’t fix the old muffler due to the huge rust holes. I asked him what the cheapest fix was; he said $ 80 and twenty minutes and he’d have a new muffler and exhaust tip welded on and the ol’ Cabrio would be good as new.
Fernando didn’t lie. I walked someplace to get a coffee and it was done fifteen minutes later when I got back, new muffler, welds and all. And it might be just the fact that my muffler’s not dragging on the ground, but the car is running with renewed gusto.
What I’m saying is this: if you want quick, cheap car repairs, and if you want a guy to show you exactly what’s wrong, tell you what he’s going to do, and then do it, take your car here. Good place.
I’ll let you know if anything doesn’t hold up.

Outside of the routine oil change, I’m not really well versed in anything having to do with auto parts or labor charges or car maintenance in general. I think I got a good deal, maybe I didn’t. The bottom of my car fell off on my way back to work from lunch, and I ended up dragging it for about a mile. It had also been making a very loud noise for weeks (I said I wasn’t good at this car stuff, didn’t I?). Ironically, I passed by Mufflers 4 Less the day before, and my friend jokingly pointed it out (I wasn’t amused). Anywhoo, I called M4L, brought my car in, and got it straight into the car lift thingy.
The mechanic seemed a lot more comfortable when he realized I speak Spanish. He showed me what happened, explained to me what he needed to replace, what needed repair etc. He seemed pretty honest and upfront, and I appreciated that a lot. I thought it was my muffler, which it wasn’t, and he told me my muffler was fine as is. Bonus points for not trying to sell me a new muffler! The piping bent from the whole dragging the bottom of the car a mile stunt, so he had to cut, repair, replace etc.
Not a bad situation… I spent $ 100 almost three months ago and nothing else has since fallen off my car (that I know about). Oh, and my car is now noise free! Only three stars because if I had the opportunity to price other places I may not have chosen M4L, but for a quick emergency they seemed pretty decent.

Beware!!! These guys are con artists and prey on women and people who don’t know cars. The replaced a part of my coworker’s engine 3 times within a month and charged him the same each time. With me, they replaced my brakes and they were still squeaking loudly I took them to Nal’s Auto. It turned out that they had used lower quality parts than they had promised, and also partially recycled (old) parts. The owner literally charmed me and told me he would replace the pads with ceramic pads for no charge and sent me home with the car at the end of the day having made absolutely no changes.