Ziebart

I called to get an appointment to get my car detailed on Friday morning and they were able to fit me in that afternoon even though i told them i wouldn’t be able to pick it up until Monday morning. My car was so dirty (2 big dogs and 5 grandchildren) my husband refused to drive it! When I picked it up, I hardly recognized it! It looks like a brand new car! They also offered me a sale price even though i didn’t ask for it. I highly recommend this place!

Brought my car in for interior detailing and buffing out sratches on the exterior. All in all it was done to perfection. Interior was spotless and exterior was scratchless. Price was reasonable for both services and had my car about 3 hours. I would definitely take my car there for future work.

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So my body shop up in Coon Rapids tried to do me a favor and dropped off a decal for my drivers side door at this location since it was closer to me and since he knew the guys or something, didn’t ask, just knew that after a few weeks it was finally going to be put on (it took a while to ship to the body shop, more on that later) and I was pretty excited.
I’m driving a old Jeep Cherokee Classic that I just had major rust work done on, and then, of course, after that work was done someone hit my driver door, so I had a new door on it as well. Since it was a new door, well new to me, we had to find a sticker. I guess the Cherokee sticker my shop tracked down was one of the LAST OEM ONES AROUND. Now, personally, I don’t care if it was OEM or not, but hey, he found it and I paid for it, and we’re good.
Only after he found it and had it shipped did I know, or did it register with me, that it was missing the «classic» part of the sticker. So no big deal, it was on the way, and that could be got in a reproduction sticker or something. More money, yes, but not the end of the world. So we were thinking to use the sticker that’s on the way, and then when I got around to it putting the Classic on later.
Thus, why I was excited, almost like a kid at christmas opening some really fun present that I had been waiting for a while.
So I get it to this Ziebart place, guy comes up, takes the keys, drives it in the building, and then says I can wait in the little waiting area. Ok, no big deal, shouldn’t take too long.
THEY PUT IT IN THE WRONG PLACE!
The idiots couldn’t look at the other side of the car to see that they were missing a sticker and to ask me what to do. They had to make up their own minds, put it on as per a Cherokee, and pretty much WASTED THE LAST OEM CHEROKEE STICKER THERE IS!
Can’t do anything about it, it’s on, not like they can be pulled off and moved. So I either have to make the other side match (thank God that at least lines up) and pull off the classic, or pull off the whole sticker THEY JUST PUT ON and toss it in the trash when my new reproduction one comes in.
As I get older, I don’t really get worked up about this, I’m not mad, I don’t wish that their shop burns down, the employees out of jobs, and a condo put in it’s place. But, I am disappointed and a little sad.
Disappointed because I truly was looking forward to getting that done and then putting the classic part on when it comes in. I put a lot of money into the car and this was part of the final touches that needed to be done.
Sad because I would have thought I could trust someone at a detail shop to at least look at both sides of the car and ask me what I wanted to do. Also sad because the sticker is wasted, $ 150 or whatever it was gone, and it was the last original OEM one around. It could have gone to a much better home than where it was put on in the wrong place by someone who couldn’t be bothered to ask questions and/​or look at the other side of the car.
Now, this was all done for free and as a favor for my original shop, and I guess the old saying is true, you do get what you pay for. Which is sad really, since this could have been really simple and would have looked great.
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So, I ran across another Cherokee with a silver sticker and was surprised in that the sticker it had was in a different spot than where they put mine. So I can only assume that they did look at both sides, then made up their own minds where it went without talking to me and ended up putting it in the wrong spot.
This is different as before I just thought they weren’t paying attention but now I know they willfully did this and willfully decided not to ask me about anything.
I honestly wouldn’t deal with these guys. I bet there are a lot of good shops around, work with someone else.

Just took my car here to get the windows tinted yesterday. They did a pretty good job at a fair price $ 179 (it was a sales special, usually the price is at $ 240ish), after taxes it came out to $ 193.94. At first I called the Bloomington Ziebart location, they charged $ 245ish for the same tint job. Bloomington also charges $ 500 for the paint protection film on my hood and front bumper while the Minneapolis location charges $ 150ish for the hood, and $ 150ish for the front bump… so that’s $ 200 less! Skip out on the Bloomington location people. Overpriced and from reading other reviews the owner there has zero customer service skills.
I work in downtown Minneapolis and only have 30 minute lunch breaks. Called Ziebart about setting up a window tint and they had a time slot open during my lunch hour in the same day. I drove my car here during lunch hour and they were nice enough to give me a ride back to my workplace (in my own car) then took my car back to their shop to do the tinting. My car was at their shop from 1:30pm to about 3:45pm when they finished. Didn’t take too long at all.
I initially emailed them and they were quick to respond so kudos there.
They also have good warranties on the work they perform. For the tinting work, they said all normal wear n tear, any bubbling/​peeling/​discoloration are covered. Only thing that isn’t covered is scratches to the film. The warranty is I think 4 years??? Didn’t quite catch it as I was in a hurry to dodge rush hour. But regardless, I find the warranty to be of good value for the total price of the tinting.
After talking with the people at Minneapolis, they are also more open to cutting some small discounts for work done.
Not sure about the other reviews on Unilocal on this place, but my experience here was pretty good, especially for window tinting. This location is a rinky dink little place, but they get the job done.
I will definitely come back here to get the paint protection film for my hood and front bumper later this year after I fix some chipped paint on my car first. Thanks Ziebart Minneapolis!
**Update 6÷6÷2014: there is a tiny bit of bubbling on one of the tint on a top corner of a back window. Just shot Ziebart’s an email on this and waiting for a reply. Will update this post in a few days.

I took both of our cars to Ziebart for interior abd exterior detailing. The work was done as promised and both cars look terrific. If you’re looking for a detailing deal, call and ask for Lindsay (manager).

I took my car to this place on Saturday for interior detailing. Called ahead and discussed details/​rates, seemed reasonable.
Dropped the car off and they called me to pick it up, they had it about 4 hours. Picked up the car and it looked like small children with white crayons had cleaned it!
There were all these white spots on the door panels and the sides of he seats. The glass and instrument panel had some oily film all over them. When I brought it to the technician’s attention, he just commented that «they didnt do a very good job», (it looked terrible! worse than what I brought it in!). What a waste of time and money. Who’d have thought cleaning a car could get so messed up.

I will most definitely start by saying that I will not take any vehicle I own back to this place as long as I live here in the Twin Cities.
I = unhappy.
It’s tough not knowing where to take my car here… so I had to kind of take a chance, and I got burned.
The problem I had was the rear window on the driver’s side of my car had a broken regulator… meaning, my window would stay up, if forced up, until I had to drive anywhere… when it would inevitably fall down. Being that it’s Minnesota, and November, this problem had to be remedied.
My husband called to ask for an estimate, and, fair enough, they didn’t want to give one until getting the inside panel off of the door and evaluating what, exactly, was the problem (it could have been a few things). They agreed I would bring the car by @ 3pm, and he had time to look at it then.
I arrived on-​time, and was told that he still had to finish up something else (could happen), but I had to LEAVE my car there for him to get to it. Now, fortunately, I don’t live THAT far away, but this was not agreed upon previously, and I had to walk all the way home to our apartment. And, truly, it felt like a ploy to get me to leave my car there, and then not deal with the hassle of getting it to take it elsewhere, in hindsight of the process this all took.
He calls me a couple of hours later and tells me it will cost $ 140, because it’s the regulator, not the clamps. This is, keep in mind, for a used part, as well. I had told him I just wanted it fixed, we’re looking to sell the car soon, and I didn’t want to dump a lot of money into. He said he could easily get a used part from a junk yard, to «save» me some money. I discuss the fairness of this price with my husband, as well as my father via the phone… and decide, to have it done with, I’ll agree to the $ 140 (knowing another place quoted $ 60 in labor if we got the part, which should have run $ 40-​$ 50 tops, NEW… as I did look into that as well for the make/​model and year of my car.)
I also asked him to break down parts vs. labor with me, and he WOULDN’T do it. This baffles me. «It’s all inclusive, plus I have to go drive to pick up the part» etc. I’m not pleased that he wouldn’t do that, as I’ve never been ANYWHERE that hasn’t given me an itemized bill in the end, and I can see it regardless. This should have been my clue to not do it, but, again, to save the hassle of walking back to pick it up and move on, I said «screw it» and told him to just do, but could I please see the bad part afterwards?, to see what went wrong.
He got defensive with me stating, «I’ve been doing this for 27 years». WTF? I just wanted to see the part/​what, exactly, broke. Is it strange for a female to request this? I have no idea.
I leave my car there over night so he can start the repair «first thing in the morning». I wait more than half a day for a phone call for the car to be finished, which never comes. I call in the early afternoon, and am told «oh, I just finished it». Okay.
I ask, «so it’s $ 140 total, correct?» NOPE. «Actually, $ 155 [plus change] with taxes and SUPPLIES». Okay, how can I get told an estimate of $ 140 that is allegedly «all inclusive» to have $ 15+ tacked on at the end? And, of course, you can’t truly bicker over that after he’s already done the work.
Shoddy, I cry. And, again, I will not return. This is why people don’t like or trust mechanics, and that’s sad.
I asked for my itemized bill, which, I guess, I got. It said my repairs were $ 140… then «taxes and supplies» for the extra $ 15+
It looked so unprofessional. Why even bother with an «itemized» bill??? What a waste of paper. Ugh.
Yes, so far my window works… hell, it better for what I paid for it.