5 /5 Jeffrey Zhou: I bought my first vehicle used this year. During this process, I got a pre-purchase inspection performed by Huy here. A month later, I came back to get my brakes, rotors, and sway bars replaced, and also got an alignment. In total, this cost me around $1100.
I’ve found these folks to be friendly, easy-going, and trustworthy. They have a “no frills” auto shop feel, where they just want to tell you the straight truth about your car and do solid business with you. I was never upsold on any service that I didn’t need - in fact, I was talked out of doing some repairs I’d come in wanting to do, because the mechanics told me that the repair wasn’t strictly necessarily, and that my car would run fine and I could save money by delaying that repair. I cherish places that are this honest.
I got an initial quote by them for the services I was looking to do (brake & rotor replacement, front control arm replacement) and shopped around with various auto shops in the bay, as well as looked up OEM parts online. MCD’s price was hard to beat - other shops were quoting as much as 2X more. In the end, I went with them and I’m glad I did. They did the repair promptly, and my car has been running great since.
The only small criticism I have is that their mechanics have quite a thick accent, so it can be difficult to understand them at times. They are super friendly and patient at explaining everything by about your car to you! But I only end up understanding about half of it due to the heavy accent. This is something I think just takes getting used to, but even with the language barrier, I feel that this is a solid auto shop.
