‘I just have a passion for helping people’: Integrity, customer service crucial to Affordable Auto success

MOSES LAKE — Affordable Auto Services has been in operation for just over five years in Moses Lake and has very quickly grown into a strong local business that serves throughout the Columbia Basin. Affordable Auto’s owner Brandon Burgess said he is proud to have grown the business into what it is today. “It’s not all about the best deal, who’s the cheapest guy,” said Burgess. “It’s about what you can offer, that you can stand behind your warranty and have the integrity to go along with that is really the deciding factor.” Affordable Auto Service was first established in 2006 by Lonnie Steimetz and operated as a hobby shop, said Burgess. The building itself has been around since 1947 and has been utilized as both a gas station and an auto repair shop over the years. “Riding by the shop when I was 12 years old on my bike, going to get air in my tire and back in the day these guys used to work on jet boats and hot rods and all that stuff out front,” he said. “I always wanted to be in that position or be in that location.”