Chris’auto Repair

Chris has been my mechanic for going on 6 years now, I have trusted him with all of my cars and Trucks. His shop is everything I look for in a mechanic’s shop. He is affordable and wont kill you on the prices and does the job right and if your like me and want to know exactly what is going on he will take the time and explain the situation. I sent my mother, sister and friends to Chris. And wont take my cars anywhere else

I had Chris replace the clutch in my son’s Hyundai Tiburon. He quoted me a very good price so we dropped the car off.
He called back to let me know that it would be more than he quoted due to the type of clutch the Tiburon has. No big deal, I had read about that online so I knew it to be true. He still had the best price in town so I went with it.
The next day when I was supposed to pick it up he told me he’d need another day with it. The new clutch wasn’t working and he had to take it all apart again. Again, no big deal, I wanted it done right.
We picked the car up, it ran and shifted great, so I thought all was well. Until I opened the hood a couple of days later. All of the shrouds covering the top of the engine and battery we’re missing. I called Chris and he said no problem, just come by anytime and he’d install them. I sent my son over to get them installed and a little bit later he came back with 1 of the covers and a handful of bolts. Chris just had it over to him, told him the covers weren’t necessary and sent him on his way! There were 4 or 5 more plastic pieces that Chris didn’t even give to him!
As soon as I found this out I took my son and his car back to Chris’s. I told Chris that I need him to install the rest of the covers. He met us in front of his shop a few minutes later with the parts and handed them to me along with a handful of bolts and clips. I repeated that he needed to install the covers. That’s when he informed me that the covers are not necessary and that he would not reinstall them. I was fairly incredulous at this point and I asked him if he was serious and he said yes, the covers are purely cosmetic and he refused reinstall them. He walked away.
We took the parts and went home. My son and I reinstalled them in less than 15 minutes. For 15 minutes of work Chris has lost me and my family, and anyone else I can convince to never darken his door, as customers forever.
The bottom line here is that Chris spent twice the amount of time replacing the clutch than he should have, rightly did not charge me for any additional labor, and did not want to spend a minute longer working on my son’s car. Up to that point I was very impressed with his honesty and thought I had found my new mechanic. But refusing to replace a few simple plastic shrouds, not matter how unnecessary he thought they were, destroyed any chance of me ever using him again.