Dave Wert Auto Repair

My friend had an awful experience here. Customer service is a huge deal in this economy and Dave Werts does not value that. I will not be taking my business here… ever.

Extremely rude. So disrespectful towards women. I would never use this service. I’d go elsewhere.

I went into Dave’s shop Tuesday afternoon because I was having problems with my ’84 firebird sputtering and dying on me on the freeway. Since it was my Daily Driver and I have 40 mile commute both ways to my work I was between a rock and a hard place. Dave took my car in despite the fact that he was obviously super busy and not two days later had already diagnosed and repaired the problem and gotten back to me with by fair the most fair price I had ever gotten on any work done to a car. Big Dave’s the real deal and everybody in San clemente knows it, these reviews do not do him nor his staff justice one bit and it’s unfortunate.

I took my 1966 Chevrolet Impala to Dave to have him look at the water pump and replace a couple belts. Dave helped my get my car running better than it has since I have owned it. When I went to pick up the car he took 20 minutes of his time to help me out with questions I had. I highly recommend taking your car here. His pricing is very fair and the work is top notch!

I wish I could give this place negative stars. We took 2 cars here and every single car turned out worse after he «fixed» them. I picked up my jeep after he changed a fuel hose and the mechanic had left a Wendy’s fast food bag in my car, the floor was super dirty and there was a shop towel left under the hood. Mysteriously a few days later my gas tank started leaking, the one he had to drop to fix the hose. At the same time we had dropped off another car to him for a transmission noise and he said he tightened it up and it wasn’t anything to worry about. Again, a few days later my transmission blew up because the piece he «fixed» had broken loose and ricocheted around causing $ 3000 worth of damage. He kept our cars for days without working on them and wouldn’t answer the phone or return voicemails. He was rude with every interaction and ruined everything he touched with a sloppy, half-​ass job.

Dave is an ass. I have given him hundreds of $$$s before and thought he was fine. He changed. Dave does not care about his company anymore. He will hang up on clients and does not offer any kindness or appreciation of your potential business. Simply sad. Email me at
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Aka Pinky,
You never told me anything and if you had then I would have expected the wait time. I asked you do you know how long this might take when I dropped my car off and you said no and NOTHING ELSE. If there had been the situation you put in writing then why didn’t someone call me to tell me the status and apologize for the inconvenience? I was on foot and walked to the Denny’s so you know where I was and you had my cell phone number.
He was rude and if you where there why didn’t you pop your head out and say what you put in response to my accurate review? You are lying and Dave deserved what I said to him and I know you were not out there when he pulled my car out and tried to get a last smart ass comment to me about next time he would be waiting at attention. My response was appropriate to his ridiculous behavior as a business owner. The bottom line is he accepted my labor only request and then threw it in my face that since I brought my own parts he had other cars to take care of first. I was suppose to be at his mercy and that was unacceptable and I can tell you that anyone who had self respect and didn’t appreciate his attitude would not have put up with that kind of treatment. My business was not a priority because I brought my own parts and he made that clear by the way he treated me.