Anderson Collision ~ honest car repairmen!

We finally got our bumper & passenger window fixed! Kinda of weird not to see the blue duck tape on the window! So, our window, bumper & labor came to a total of $333.00 instead of $1,092. I bought the window regulator & motor off of Ebay for $45 including shipping (instead of $192), I bought the bumper from Spaulding for $222 instead of $380 and Glen Anderson only charged us $86.00 to install the bumper and the window regulator. He said the motor on our old one was still good, so he gave it back to us.

The only snafu in the whole process was that Spaulding didn't tell me there was damage on the "new" bumper. It's very minor, but to sand it & repaint it, it would cost $150 for Glen to fix (Dodge would charge $400) and Bruce at Spaulding was a jerk & didn't tell me that there was damage on it when I bought it (they shipped it to the autobody shop)& when I asked him to refund me $75 (half the cost to repair to new) he said no.

We are very happy to have found an honest & inexpensive place to have our cars fixed! The sliding door on the van needs the electrical wires hooked back up & we need to replace the air conditioning thingy majigger so we can have air conditioning this summer, but that can wait. Last summer the window was broken & so we had outside air conditioning all summer :) Better yet, I can't lock my kid & keys in the car by accident if the lock doesn't work on one of the doors! I told Glen I'd get that fixed when Grayson could unbuckle his harness on his car seat, until then it was better not too.

When Ethan was little (under 2) I stopped in front of the Daycare to run in & get Jasmyn, I stupidly left the car running and as soon as I shut the door I realized that all the doors all locked (automatically), I had to have the firemen down the street come & open my car door, it was frightening as well as embarrassing! Automatic locks are not my friend!