Reviewed by PriceMyFix Editorial Team·last updated May 2026
PriceMyFix shows two different kinds of prices, and we label them differently so you always know which is which.
On every city page — for example, oil change in Tampa — every line in the price table is a real price from a real shop. We collect prices from the shop's own website, their public coupon page, or a verified user receipt. Each row carries a "Last Verified" date so you can see exactly how fresh the data is. Prices not re-verified within 30 days are flagged.
We do not show estimated prices on city pages. If we don't have at least 3 verified shops for a city/service combo, the page tells you we're still collecting data instead of guessing.
On vehicle pages — for example, Honda Civic brake pad replacement cost — the headline price range is an estimate, clearly badged as such on every page. We start with the national average from our verified-shop data, then apply a multiplier specific to that vehicle's class, brand tier, and drivetrain.
The multiplier is built from four documented inputs:
Multiplier values are derived from industry-standard flat-rate labor patterns documented in Mitchell ProDemand and MOTOR labor guides — the two reference systems used by independent shops and dealerships across North America. The values are not the proprietary data from those guides; they are the well-known differentials a working technician would expect (for example: a Lexus LS battery replacement requires ISTA-equivalent registration; an F-150 7-quart oil change costs more than a Civic 4.2-quart change in fluid alone).
Each multiplier carries a confidence label — high, medium, or low. Pages built from low-confidence multipliers are not indexed by search engines until we accumulate enough verified data to lift them.
All vehicle-cost content, multiplier rationales, and educational explainers are reviewed by the PriceMyFix Editorial Team against established automotive safety and maintenance guidance before publication. Brake, steering, and tire content (which carry direct safety implications) are re-reviewed any time the corresponding multiplier changes.
The Editorial Team verifies every published shop price against the originating shop's website or a user-submitted receipt before it appears on a city or shop page. Each price carries the verification date so you can judge freshness at a glance, and prices older than 90 days drop off the "currently verified" view automatically. Cost-guide content is reviewed at least quarterly against current industry pricing data, and the date of the most recent review is shown in the byline at the top of every guide.
Use the city pages to see what real shops in your area are charging right now. Use the vehicle pages as a sanity check when a shop quotes you a price — if a quote comes in 2× our estimate for your make and model, that's a signal to get a second opinion. Both pages link to verified shop listings near you.
Every price on the site carries one of four verification levels. Each level reflects how directly the price was sourced.
Asking a shop for their price has two problems. First, the quote a shop gives over the phone often differs from what they advertise on their website coupon page. Second, the shop has an incentive to game the answer if they know the question is for a comparison site. Scraping the shop’s own published page removes both issues. The price you see is what the shop decided to publish for any walk-in customer to find. We capture that page weekly and timestamp the snapshot.
Customer receipts close the gap on services that are not published. Tire installation, alignment, transmission flushes, and any combo packages are commonly priced verbally rather than in writing. Receipts give us a paper trail for those services and help triangulate the published prices we already have.
PriceMyFix is currently free for shops to be listed and free for users to browse. Our intended revenue model is consumer affiliate links to parts retailers and a paid “featured shop” surface that is clearly labeled and excluded from the price-ranking calculation. No shop can pay to alter their position in price comparisons, hide reviews, or remove their verified pricing. If we add either revenue surface, we will label it on every page where it appears.
Shop-website prices refresh weekly through an automated scrape run. Customer receipts ingest within twenty-four hours of submission once they pass spam and OCR checks. Multiplier estimates regenerate any time a labor rate or parts cost input changes (typically every quarter). The Last Verified badge on each price tells you exactly when the underlying data was confirmed.
If a price on the site is wrong, contact us through the About page or a shop profile’s contact link. We re-verify any flagged price within forty-eight hours, and we will remove a price entirely if we cannot confirm it through the original source. Shop owners can request a re-verification by submitting current pricing through their shop profile.
PriceMyFix is an independent price-comparison service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any listed repair shop, manufacturer, parts supplier, or labor-guide publisher. When our verified-shop data conflicts with our multiplier estimate, the verified-shop data wins.
