West Side Auto Repair, LLC

04/11/2025

Ten weeks post knee surgery. I'm feeling well enough to work part time.

03/05/2025

Thanks for your patience while I'm recovering from knee surgery. I hope to be back in the shop before the end of March.

01/13/2025

If you have a state inspection coming due for February please call me soon as I'm having some elective surgery January 29th and will be out for 4 to 6 weeks. In the meantime if you need an inspection sticker our friends at Kolencik Service on Pittsburgh St will take care of you...724-438-9562.

11/18/2024

The early days.

07/18/2023

This is how State farm operates. If you are carrying their insurance, please consider shopping around for a better insurer.

State Farm didn’t want to pay for proper and safe repairs. A customer called me from Raleigh. He wrecked his 2015 Toyota 4Runner. He took his truck to Collision Masters. State Farm wrote an estimate of $7.876.78. Collision Masters wrote a comprehensive estimate of $16,679.08. The State Farm adjuster started denying things and said we don’t pay for that, no other shop asks for that procedure, that’s not “ usual and customary.” All those comments means the customer and/or the shop is about to get stuck without getting paid for correctly repairing the Truck. Ashley told the customer that they could challenge their own insurance company by invoking the appraisal clause and hiring me. State Farm was removed from the negotiation process and now their independent appraiser and I were tasked with agreeing on a repair cost. After exchanging estimates and multiple emails we agreed State Farm would have to pay $16,017.91. Mind you, potentially the customer would have been responsible to pay the shop $8,141.13 out of pocket that State Farm said “ we don’t owe for that!”
Never trust a repair estimate written by the company that owes you money for repairs.

07/17/2023

03/05/2023

Some of the wind damage from Friday's storm.

07/16/2022

Prepped and ready for paint.