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RepairPal Continues Expanding Its Network of Auto Repair Shops


RepairPal Expands Its Network of Auto Repair Shops

RepairPal platform, a major provider of auto repair and maintenance data for customers of auto repair shops, has recently registered the 2,500th repair shop to its certified network.


Some companies specialized in selling, insuring, and assisting car owners in maintenance of their cars are now offering the RepairPal solution to their clients. Now it is possible to find RepairPal Certified workshops via companies such as CarMax and USAA, who are dedicated to helping their clients throughout their car service life.



Users of RepairPal.com get access to a wide range of useful information intended to help them keep their cars safe. Now the RepairPal network reached an impressive milestone of 2,500 reliable repair shops that provide a variety of maintenance and repair services carried out by skilled and experienced technicians at reasonable prices. A special price estimating feature (algorithm) makes sure that consumers never pay more than they actually have to for a specific type of service.


RepairPal designed a sophisticated algorithm to assess whether shops have appropriate standards of quality and customer relations as well as fair pricing policy. In order to join RepairPal network, each repair business must go through a deep assessment procedure conducted by the group of auto experts who examine the shop’s technicians for expertise, available repair equipment and spare parts, customer satisfaction, pricing, and warranty. Each workshop must maintain the high quality of provided services to keep its place in the network.


About RepairPal



Established by a group of auto enthusiasts in 2007, the RepairPal platform became a response to frustrations and rip-offs experienced by many drivers during their visits to repair shops. Thanks to the resources available on the platform, drivers can obtain precise, candid, and useful car ownership info available. RepairPal collaborates with numerous organizations, including, but not limited to USAA, CarMax, Castrol, Zubie and ASE.

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Probably every transmission repair specialist was keen on LEGO constructions or at least enjoyed making some minor things with their hands. Here's the game taken to a new level of creativity!

Modern auto industry is full of sophisticated drivetrain technologies which are supposed to make your driving experience even more pleasant and trouble-free. Despite a great abundance of sophisticated technical solutions, it is highly likely that very few people know a transmission solution operating like a manual CVT.

Over recent years engineers developed a lot of gear shifting solutions for different car brands, which may seem a bit unusual for oldtime drivers. In this article we will review the most peculiar gear stick technologies and provide video materials related to these technologies.

Only few people know about transmission concepts which were popular 70-90 years ago. For men of today, these gearboxes may seem very unusual and weird, but even now some gearboxes that date back to those years are quite competitive in comparison with modern transmissions.

Nowadays Extroid CVTs are commonly known as “toroidal” due to the fact that the working surface of driving and driven discs in this transmission has the form of a torus. Extroid CVT is not a V-belt transmission, but a friction drive CVT.