Man, the dates are only half the trick though. Same guy can have old bad reviews and fresh good ones, and the good ones are usually from people who haven't hit the part where he tacks on the extra charge yet. You gotta read the ones that are like six months old, after the job's had time to fall apart.

Acetone on the cab glass every night? Man, that sounds like a chemistry experiment waiting to eat the sealant around the windshield... I've seen guys ruin gaskets that way before. But if it holds up in the rain down in Odessa, that's a solid trick, I just can't get past the smell and the mess of carrying that stuff in the truck.

Buddy skipped the coolant test, cost him a whole compressor rebuild.