Smart Cars by Weiland

Stay away, rip off alert. Only thing that will happen here is horrible timing belt jobs and some sweet lies, but if that is what your into…

I find it odd and somewhat disheartening that I had such a glowing review for Crown Honda and such a lousy one for this small mom and pop place. Isn’t it supposed to be the opposite? I like to support the locals! And I like to write nice reviews of places that are super.
So, either these people totally played us or they are just completely unaware that they have a really lousy mechanic. They sold us a car (used, but in seemingly pretty good condition) that they said had just had the timing belt replaced. It was replaced, but apparently the gaskets, or something, were not properly replaced or screwed back on tight enough, so oil was leaking onto the belt. The oil temp light came on and kept flashing the day after we took the car home and we smelled burning oil, so I took it back over to have them check it out. The guy said they didn’t see anything wrong and that maybe there was a short in the oil light that was flashing and the smell was probably just the belt settling in. I feel like such a doof. You know, I don’t know any better. I’m no mechanic! Yeargh, this experience makes me want to go out and take a mechanics course, because I feel like it is so easy to be taken for a ride (no pun intended)! Just watch out for these folks, they seemed nice and maybe ours was a fluke experience, but now we’re $ 3,000 in the hole and kind of ticked off about it. I hate writing negatively… but…well…take that, Smart Cars!