Artesia Auto

Artesia Auto is highly recommended, John the owner/​mechanic did an awesome job on my RV where no other shop wants me because of my size… I went to Takeda and turned me down… good thing I asked people around! highly recommended… Thank you John for your help now we can go camping !!!

I’m so lucky I stumbled upon this place. Originally I was trying to look for Takeda to fix my 2001 Honda Accord, but upon getting lost within this plaza of mechanic shops, I found this place.
It was empty and the guy had no cars at the time so I was very skeptical whilst thinking, «this place must be really crappy for there to be nobody here.»
I took a risk (probably because he was Korean, as am I) and handed over my crap car, explaining to him with the best Korean I knew, that my car had transmission problems. He had given me options, like replacing the entire transmission, repairing it, or temporarily fixing it by adding transmission fluid. He did it in a few hours (of course, because he had no other customers) and I was grateful. Of course, the gratefulness only lasted a few weeks because I had to replace my transmission.
I took my car again to this place because I had a weird noise coming from my engine. Since this was the mechanic that was within my area, I gave him my car again. He inspected it and quickly stated that my AC compressor unit’s bearing was broken. I asked him if I should replace it now or if I can replace it in a few days, and he said that he can only recommend but not force customers to fixing it. Hmm, well that seemed nice.
His trustworthiness was instantly approved when he offered to give him his car because I had to be somewhere soon. But I declined because I had to drive far and didn’t want to risk anything.
As far as the pricing goes, I paid roughly $ 420 (Ok, I got $ 390 after a discount because I had waited for a bit for the part to come in). I checked a website later to see that the price for the part itself was $ 380. That plus labor should come out to be almost $ 600!
The conclusion is that I will be taking my car in again to replace my water pump and timing belts and all the other junk that is recommended to be replaced. I asked for a quote on this before I left and he said that it’ll cost a grand total of $ 400! Website I look at says anywhere between $ 486 and $ 661 in my area.
Cool.