Do you trust your mechanic?
Most consumers have a fear of spending too much on their auto repairs and have a general distrust of customer service. In fact, many stories have been aired on television whereby shops have ripped the poor customer off.
We have surveyed your communities automotive shops for what repair shops have a great reputation for honesty, integrity, skills, and dedicated customer service. We now have a list of the most reputable automotive shops that are NOMINATED by their PEERS.
These are the shops that the shops refer to and trust to look after their own customers. If you have been nominated as a Most Referred Auto Repair Shop be proud as there is no higher reward than that of your peer’s nominations.
Together we can rebuild the consumers trust in the auto repair industry by utilizing the list of referred shops. This, in turn, will give the shops with the highest reputation more business.
Top Referred Shops
500+ Top Peer Recommended Auto Repair Shops in B.C.
We have now completed an extensive peer survey that identifies the Referred Auto Repair Specialists for their honesty, integrity and dedicated customer service for the following categories; brakes, mufflers, transmissions, tire alignments, auto glass, auto body repairs, air conditioning, auto detailing and used cars.
How Referred Auto Repairs Works
Referred Auto Repairs is an independent, unbiased resource designed to connect the car owner to the most referred Auto repair shops, ones known for dedicated customer service, honesty and skills. Car owners further benefit with Online Mechanic support, their Car Repair histories online, and Maintenance alerts.Charities and non-profits have a large base of supporters and we provide funding for these groups when using the RAR shops.
The "Most Referred Repair Shops" Directory
Search by city or postal code and also by the repair type, you will see the directory of the Auto shops sorted by service categories and reputation.
The Gold RAR Stars ranking 
is a high quality way to determine the reputation of a shop by peer nominations. Each RAR Starred shop means that their peers with 1000's of repair experiences recommend these winners to their own customers for their honesty, skills and dedicated customer service.
"You Repair ...we Donate"
Charity Directory
Our Easy Giving Program encourages more involvement in your local communities by supporting the local community programs. Nothing could be easier than using one of RAR shops and picking your favourite charity / non profit and then we make a donation to them on each of your RAR repairs.
Take me to the Charity Directory
Instant "Shop Connector" Repair Booking Online
With near 40% of the repair shops not answering the phone or responding in a timely manner, we have an instant booking program that confirms your appointment instantly. Each day we confirm what shops can take walk in customers, and your appointment can be confirmed on the spot.
Our new communication tools are quicker than a phone call or an email. Now your appointment or quote request instantly pops up on the shops' computer for instant live time confirmation.
My Car Records Online
(Your Car Repair History)
Store all of your service and repair information for all of your vehicles on your personal car page.
Each time when you do repair through the RAR system, the repair details will be automatically put on your Private car repair history. You can now share your Online repair history with any other RAR shop that you use, so they don't have to re-diagnose previous problems or replace parts those are recently replaced.
Maintenance Alerts # 1 need for car owners is a reminder to replace those brakes before it is too late and they have damaged the rotors and have reduced driving safety. Preventive maintenance can save as much as 30% of your repair costs.
Take the worry out of the Car Maintenance, we can identify future maintenance items on your RAR repair, and can alert you for your next scheduled repair appointment.
Customized Shop Web Pages
All Shop services are featured and matched to your repair needs. From the Specialized equipment to the master technicians skills you can review the services of each shop in more detail.
We also provide live map for handy driving directions to their shop and street view of shop to help you find the shop.
Help Referred Auto Repairs Help Others
Our success depends on users like you helping other drivers by providing honest feedback about your car care experience. If you have something to say about a specific shop, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can gain from your experience.
Pre-Qualified Auto Repair Specialists For You
As a result of a nation-wide survey, only those auto repair specialists nominated by their industry peers and competitors for honesty, integrity, skills and superior customer service, are accepted as part of North America's own 'Referred Auto Repair Specialists'.
Service Excellence
Referred Auto Repairs and its member professionals are dedicated to providing you with the finest service available. We specialize in assisting people who depend on honest, integral and competent service.
As a consumer, vehicle owner, how do you find a trusted Automotive repairs shop? Consumer polls often only represent one single service experience, yet a peer shop that has been in the business for 20 years may have 100's upon 100's of service experiences from the shops in their market area. For example, when a shop says, "I always recommend Mark from Mark's Transmission shop or Bob from ABC Tire shop," this is 20 years of experience recommendation that you can count on. CLICK here for the consumer benefits
As a Auto Repair Shop, enlarge your network, and get more business. Over 55% of the automotive shops interviewed say they do not recommend or know of good quality shops to recommend for their customers needs. In fact, major shops that have been in business for an average of 3 years have yet to meet even 10% of the other local repair specialists. This RAR list is now a major Business-to- Business referral network that enables you to give your customer more service with quality referrals. CLICK here for RAR Shop membership benefits
As a Charity or a Non-Profit organization, how do you raise funds today with with the current and future government cutbacks and reduced givings. With over 6,000 BC organizations in need many of our Repair shops are giving support with a donation for each approved repair. With a projected 30% a participation in the province we expect to have a 19 million dollar capacity to fund the local charities.CLICK here for Charity Funding Application
