Best muffler shop in Middletown, New York (NY) 2024

went to get a 3 inch section of flex pipe replaced after another shop broke it replacing a section of the exhaust, original shop could not weld to repair it.midas came with a price of $489 to do it, they explained why the plrice and how it was going to be done, they said the had to unbolt the front pipe as part of the job, i stated that that was not possible because the from pipe was part of the catalytic converter. the guy was gonna show me that i didn't know what i was talking about, so he puts the car back up and looks and says, your right. so they come qith a new price of $344. . the original price for the small peice of flex pipe was $148 but he dropped the price to $129.. when i stated that the price for the pipe was less then $20., the manager got onvolved and told me how wrong i was. i get that there is a merkup on parts, but 700%?. i left and went to meineke in middletown, $244 and done ~michael