Omaha Automotive

Custom cleaning is the modus operandi at Top Dollar Detail. Keeping this in mind, the skilled staff surveys vehicle surfaces and responds accordingly while performing interior, exterior, and full-auto details. Their full-service detail shop also offers various a la carte auto-cleaning treatments, such as restoring headlights, clay-barring paint jobs, and removing neighborhood mailboxes from undercarriages.

While most wouldn't take an out-of-shape Yorkie to an agility trial, many drivers push their sputtering vroomers across state lines without a second thought. Give your ride a routine oil transfusion ($34 average value) and fresh filter swap designed to help you avoid interstate breakdowns and awkward silences in the cab of the tow truck. Along with the renewed fluid fluency, your vehicle is also given a bumper-to-bumper inspection ($81 average value) with checks on the chassis, air filters, breather filters, tire pressures, and any other suspicious areas that allude to potential involvement in car-corrupting activities, such as raging five-alarm fires in the trunk. Though the normal prices of services vary based on make and model, today's Groupon covers any-sized passenger vehicles (not valid for commercial vehicles such as monster trucks and airplanes).

Head mechanic Dean leads 6 to 6 Auto Service's ASE–certified technicians, who welcome foreign and domestic cars under their full-service shop's umbrella. Since his facility is a NAPA AutoCare Center, Dean can promise roadsters the luxury of NAPA parts while performing basic checkups or digging deep into engines and transmissions. Dean and company can also accommodate specialty vehicles such as diesels or hybrids, provided they promise to play nice and not mock the other cars' commonplace VIN numbers.

GP Customs decks out automobiles with nonreflective and high-performance window tinting. The sleek solar films are available in a variety of colors and shades, working to improve energy costs by keeping cars' interiors cooler. And by blocking up to 98% of UV rays, the films can protect unnecessary wear to car upholstery, carpeting, and dashboard oil paintings of Dale Earnhardt, Jr. GP Customs also snazzes up cars with CD players and televisions by popular brands such as Clarion, Pioneer, and Panasonic.

In 1979, at the age of 19, Peter Fink opened the first Certified Transmission in an abandoned gas station. He envisioned a business that would remanufacture, rather than rebuild, transmissions and Barbie Corvettes. Today, the company has grown to include 15 retail stores in four states and more than 400 employees. ASE-certified technicians, who must complete a 13-week training program before they can work by themselves, hand-disassemble transmissions and check each part, re-machining or replacing any parts not up to factory-new standards. Ongoing education keeps technicians’ skills up-to-date and sharper than Henry Ford's stainless-steel tongue. In a 2011 article in Manufacturing Today, Fink attributed his success to high quality standards and good business practices. These standards have not gone unnoticed; in 2005, the Omaha Chamber of Commerce presented Certified Transmission with an Excellence in Business award. Certified Transmission backs their work with an extensive warrantee.

Finishing Touch Car Wash and Detail tends to automotive needs with a full suite of car-care services, building a reputation as a full-service detailing studio, repair facility, and car wash. The auto haven maintains an onsite body shop—which is not where clothing stores buy their mannequins—and purveys preowned vehicles, enabling drivers to find a host of remedies to both update and repair their jalopies or check out other makes and models.