My main beef is when your made to feel like your doing the shop a favour by taking your car their, and in one case, I'm not going to say which local shop, getting the car back in a far worse condition drive line wise than when it was dropped off,. I only had that issue sorted by getting the car put on a car carrier and taken to Sydney and having the car sorted by a shop up there. No one could diagnose the issue here, and of course what people were diagnosing the issue as here, turned out to be nowhere near what the issue actually was. Of course I was thousands of dollars out of pocket sorting it out, and having the car off the road for two months, and the local shop denied everything.
That's why I'm a fan of going to Sydney.
You can get good work done here of course, but buyer beware.