“Do not knock the customer out”: for repairs, is the small garage in the countryside always a good plan?

It’s a small picture-postcard garage, in a town — Pré-en-Pail, in Mayenne — whose name itself smells of the hinterland and the haystacks (they brighten up the fields as soon as you leave the village, on both sides of the National 12). The “scheme” is not new: drive more to… pay less. Is it still valid though? Less and less, according to the barometer of the price of vehicle repairs that we reveal. Our newspaper wanted to check in the Pays de la Loire region, one of the least expensive a priori.