Remember those old AAMCO commercials with 3 or 4 monkies around a transmission, beating on it with whiffle-ball bats? For some reason that came to mind when you mentioned how "Good" your mechanical support was in your neck of the woods.
I guess we all have shops/experiences like that at some point. Mine was some quack trying to sell me a $300 engine part when a $2 spark plug wire fixed the problem.
