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Established in 1976, Mighty Muffler Auto Repair Center has maintained a positive rapport with the residents of Conyers, Georgia, and the surrounding areas. We are a full service auto repair shop specializing in brakes, A/C, diagnostic service and tune-ups. In the event customers are unable to drive their vehicle into the shop, there are towing services available. Our professional team is able to service most any make or model
When Linda Van Dover took over operation of an independent muffler shop in Lawrenceville, Georgia, in 1982, she knew little about business management and even less about the exhaust business. She now presides over the entire Mighty Muffler Auto Repair & Brakes operation, consisting of four stores serving the Atlanta area.
While Linda and her husband Joe were living in California, they became silent partners with Joe’s sister and brother-in-law, Kathy and Norma Lindsey, in a Midas shop in Athens, Georgia, and three independent muffler shops in the Atlanta area. When Norman eventually decided to leave Georgia to pursue other opportunities with Midas, the Van Dovers acquired the Lawrenceville Mighty Muffler, a two-bay shop in a former Texaco station with an outside lift.
They moved to the Atlanta area in 1979 and Linda actually took over operation of the muffler shop in 1982. Until then, she had been a housewife, and then "I became this person who had to go to work every day, and worked on Saturdays while everybody else was home, including my husband. He was baby-sitting with the two children and I was working on Saturdays.”
Joe was a sales representative for a manufacturer of steel buildings. In 1983, the Van Dovers bought a shop in Decatur that had been sold recently and was failing. Their next acquisition was an empty Union 76 station that had been converted to a convenience store. About the same time, they bought another muffler shop that was for sale after a bank foreclosure.
When Linda took over the Lawrenceville shop in 1982, the difficulties she encountered because of her lack of business experience were compounded by the fact that the all-male staff was slow to accept a woman owner, she noted. “I’ve learned a lot through all these years that I’ve worked with people. I’ve had to learn people skills, and I’m still learning today.”
The Mighty Muffler operation now consists of a shop on Campbellton Road in Atlanta, managed by Kevin Pitts since 2017; one in Decatur on Memorial Drive, managed by Luis Pinon; one in Conyers, managed by Mitchell Mullen; and another in Lawrenceville, managed by Joe Stark.
The Conyers location, which opened in 1996, is the first of Linda’s shops to open in a new building. Conyers, a southeast suburb of Atlanta, is also home to Mighty Mufflers’ headquarters. Her headquarters staff includes office manager, Judy Denney.
Mighty Muffler locations offer custom exhaust services, brake and front-end service, and much more. Georgia started an emissions-inspection program in the 13-county Atlanta metropolitan area in October of 1996. The program includes an ASM (Accelerated Simulation Mode) test for vehicles seven or more years old.
“We have been very much involved with the emissions program, and we were one of the first ones in the program,” Linda said. “All my stores are involved in emissions testing, and that’s been a good shot in the arm for all of them.”
They're amazing and polite and make sure you understand what they're doing. I've taken my car two times to them and each time they took care of my baby with no issues and they're pretty affordable compared to other shops
- Cherrie L.
LOVE this place! Luis is the best! Highly recommend.
- Mel O.
Good mechanics and good prices
-Darnell H.
They did a great job my car sounds great glad I had them do my exhaust
- Joe C.
Great and reasonable prices. The owner don't try to over charge you, and he lets you know what you need to do whether he can fix it or not he's looking out for your best interest. I would definitely go back to Mighty Muffler.
- Lameeka F.