Smitty’s Garage

I haven’t done business here yet but I WILL be soon. I called to get some tires changed and talked to who I think was Smitty and was more then nice to me and gave me a great price to change the tires i thought, I had to cancel and he was again still nice, not rude and short with me, I WILL be going here soon as i get a chance.

Affordable, fast, reliable and honest. What else can I say about these guys. They are top notch in my book and worked wonders on van. Worth the trip. Thanks guys!

UPDATE 4÷2÷2015 I brought our old car in there for an alignment. I usually do my own work but they said that they could replace the lower control arm with ball joint for $ 99 plus labor. This part is $ 43 on Rock Auto but whatever there is a markup and I know the repair guys make money on parts. It was tempting to have them fix it cause it has been freezing out.
When I get called to pick up the car I am told that whoops the part we got did not have the ball joint, and now it is $ 150. We just did it anyway… This is a part that is $ 43 online WITH ball joint. In addition I do not see a control arm for this car without a ball joint sold anywhere. The part manufacturer he stated (Dorman) does not sell a lower control arm without ball joint as per their part catalog. I am not sure why anyone would replace a control arm without doing the ball joint as well, so that is probably why there are not any around like that. Also if it was indeed the case that this happened, why not deduct it from your 3x + markup?!
So in the end I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt and FWIW it came out great. I am just disappointed by this, and going to be more weary. If I did not have such good experiences with them with car inspections I would think that I got ripped off.
In short: Accurate and honest assessment of what is wrong, but dubious extra charge after.
Old review
I always have this habit of working on my car on Sundays when nothing is open to save me if I have a problem. I enjoy the thrill of this but finally it bit me when I had a wheel bearing that required a press to separate. This is walking distance so I walked up there Monday morning.
The owner is a fantastic guy and pressed the bearing out and cut off the part that stuck for $ 20! I felt bad so I gave him $ 40. My wife has brought her car up there for inspections and they never tried to rip her off by telling her the muffler bearings need grease or whatnot. She had a bulb out once and they charged only $ 2 and passed it.
St James is a very local place and it is important to give good honest service which this place definitely does or they would not last long. This is a small but honest shop that is highly recommended.