2 /5 Daniel McCalib: My experience from 7/21/25. A few issues, overall lack of value, contentious interactions from staff and not good follow-thru.
Originally took there for my fiat 500 as it had an episode of hard starting after storage. I asked to replace sparkplugs, look it over, do an oil change, tell me what the check engine lights where on it.
I get a call next day (they also were able to get me in quickly) that the car was done but they recommended replacement and cleaning of various air filters. I agreed to all costs.
They called a little later and said it was all good to pickup. I asked them about the check engine light, to which i was told “thats not on my work order, if you wanted us to diagnose that it would be around $200. I said how can your guys do a tune up, check over everything and miss a check engine light?? The guy was not interested or had the patience to apologize and simply said “do you want us to do that?” I declined diag and said i just want what ever codes present to be notated.
I picked up today and wanted to go over the invoice. Again met with resistance and any lack of service or cooperation. I asked to know how they arrived at the labor cost of $300 to replace 4 spark plugs in this engine. (Plugs cost $100 in parts). They admitted they dont have a published labor rate (not a good practice imo to keep honest and transparent). But they said the system they use to build the job was Mitchell and it called for 1.52 hours for the spark plugs, which means their labor rate in their system is around $191/hr.
For an independent shop that has 3.5/5 stars. I talked to the guy i spoke with during intake and asked why he didnt put the check engine light on the work-order and further why his guys (that he trusts to do everything correctly without documentation), failed to bring up a CEL found during an intake. I am a first time customer and simply asking for justification, if they care to provide service or wish to repair the beginning of a new clients relationship.
Their reply was “no, we are not going to be able to make you happy so we just need to move on”.
Move on I will, not feeling its unreasonable to validate why a business charges the way they do and holding them accountable when they don’t do what they said they were, are resistant and not accommodating when called out, and their techs are not thorough enough to notice a check engine light and notate or dig deeper.