Locate an Auto Repair Shop in Vancouver, Washington

Wonder how many days people spend in avg. on their road trip. I plan to go not to far away since my kids are still young. Maybe just from Seattle to Portland, or Vancouver to spend a day or two. I am not the kind of folks who enjoy camping since I have bad back, and I can't live without a good hot shower :)

Yeah I am in internet sales. Apparently that's instructions from head office: no ebay, no facebook (although I do advertsie on it), I even had to fight to keep craigslist up as most of ym internet business comes from there. We don't do any ebay sales any ways, but it would be good to have that site available. I think I might resort to buying a laptop with my own wireless connection and just working off that. Sometimes I don't like to be treated like a 5 year old.

The Skoda coupes were called Rapids iirc. Unfortuantely I can't participate in this chat during the day cause the computer guy blocked everything and although I have access to the edmunds site, most pictures aren't showing Same goes for obsucre car spotting and project cars with ebay links.

There's also an E34 BMW 5 series in the background.

The Jeep Patriot is a useless piece of metal garbage. I bought a new one (2008) from a British Columbia dealership (Canada) in Vancouver and had nothing but chronic problems with the arrogance and ineptitude of the dealership and this stressful hunk of junk. We had it warranty fixed five times with various manual transmission gear chronic problems that were defective, lost confidence in the safety and reliabilty of the lame product and suffered enjoyment loss with immense frustration and down time from both this inane dealership and the head quarters company who merely endorses the action of the car lot in turning a blind eye to our chronic headaches that has victimized us for years. In Canada the government protects the crooked auto industry to the detriment of the consumer whereas, in the USA they have the "lemon aid" law that shields buyers from nauseating car problems and bullying tactics by the auto giants. This car is the worst vehicle I have ever owned and they put on cheap junk in this inferior product. The value of this unreliable vehicle, like all other Jeeps, plummets quickly as opposed to better quality suv's like the ford escape that retain their market value. I have no faith in Jeep Canada or useless programs like the Vehicle Sales Authority or CamVamp which is an arbritration board style body that convenes on disputes from customers with the cars and/or dealership. The Jeep Patriot is a lemon and many would not recommend it despite the Canadian government giving buyers a rebate for its gas consumption. There are chronic problems with manual transmissions with Jeep Patriots and other disgruntled consumers I spoke to had immense stress parallel to ours with multiple efforts to fix their inferior product that fails to live up to its promise and expectations in their promotions of this crap vehicle. It is poorly designed with cup holders on the floor (rear) and poor visibility (hummer like style) of windows for tall drivers with several blind spots which hinders driving habits such as looking to the rear over your right shoulder to see vehicles in the other lane. Quite frankly, the Patriot is a huge disappointment and I would not recommend the product, go to a competitor for something better as the Patriot like the Compass lacks class and dependability. Even the dealership put it in writing we suffered huge discomforts that are warranty defects and Jeep Canada, being spineless, looks the other way rather than make amends to a justifiably angry customer who has been victimized with safety and a peace of mind in a weak product that deserves the title "lemon". I hope Chrysler/Jeep goes down the gutter with their laughable service, joke product, aggressive sales tactics that has a very nasty reputation in this area and the deceit in their bogus claims.