The MAT Squad

STAY AWAY FROM HIM!!! DON’T LET HIM NEAR YOUR CAR!!! This guy is a complete con artist he sells himself as this knowledgeable expert mechanic with an ASE certification specializing in AC but in reality he’s the shadiest of all shade tree mechanics out there. I’m currently in the process of repairing all the damage that he caused. I unfortunately found him in the summer because I needed a new AC compressor, drier and expansion valve. My friend at the Mercedes dealership had already done a diagnostic on the car and told me what was needed, I just wasn’t going to pay the outlandishly overpriced cost that the dealership asked.
So at that time, Otis (Mat Squad) seemed like a reasonable alternative but more often than not you get what you pay for in life! We ordered all the parts that the car needed but Otis refused to believe that the car needed the drier and the expansion valve he insisted that the dealership was lying to me in an attempt to get me to spend more money. He assured me that my car only needed the AC compressor replaced, he was very adamant about that so we believed him. I canceled the order since he said he could get me a compressor locally without having to wait for shipping. The first compressor he put on was bad it went dead right after he put it on my friend at the dealership verified it. Of course, Otis couldn’t believe it he had to test it for himself and he saw firsthand that it was indeed defective. So he put on another compressor but the AC never did quite get right it never cooled the way it was supposed to but I decided to just deal with it I was tired of having to chase him down and the weather was cooling off.
Fast forward to now, and the clutch inside my compressor seized up and stopped functioning and that threw off my serpentine belt and water pump which caused the car to break down on the side of the road. I’ve had a three different people look at the car and guess what… the consensus is that the AC compressor is bad and I still need all the same parts I initially asked Otis to put on plus some as a result of me listening to his very bad judgement. I contacted him and he still stands by his initial incorrect diagnosis which doesn’t really surprise me. He says he was saving me money by not putting on parts that I didn’t need but is it really saving money if you have to replace the same part two or three times because it wasn’t done correctly??? I don’t think so. The reality is that he just didn’t know how to put on the other parts so he insisted that I didn’t need them because he would rather get some business than no business at all. At the end of the day, he simply does not know how to fix cars the way he claims I wish I had have asked to see his ASE certification it probably doesn’t exist. He also claims to have worked at a Mercedes dealership in the service department that was probably another lie of his. I wish I knew then what I know now about this guy but I didn’t have a good feeling about doing business with him so I should have trusted my instincts. I shouldn’t have done any business with him he thinks he knows everything even more than the dealership which in hindsight doesn’t even make sense he’s mobile mechanic going here and there doing patchwork on cars. If he was so knowledgeable he’d have his own shop.
Hopefully, this review helps others to avoid this very costly mistake.

please dont use this guy he will charge you not fix things and will want to charge you again to fix something that he has already fixed.
he charged me $ 65 diagnostics fee and said compressor was broken came back and said my valve is leaking too and i asked him to change it but he said oh dont worry i overpressured the system it wont leak and in a week a/​c was not working efficently and then he wanted to charge me 125 again to come change the valve and do freon again. i told him i will pay for freon and valve but since he made bad judgement of not changing valve he should not be charging me 125 to change a $ 5 valve