I took my van with full hand control conversions to Access Options because they were local and I wanted to keep my money in the community. What a mistake. What happened next was a nightmare of upselling and bad business practices which lasted for the better part of a year.
Barely competent - I've known many EMC / AEVIT repair people, and these guys are not even close to top notch. They were so incompetent at repairing my system that I thought they were joking. At first.
Frustrating to work with - They have a "don't tell the customer anything" philosophy, which coupled with their slow work and aforementioned incompetence is downright infuriating. Each employee has a different story of what your repair status is. On multiple occasions they confused other customers' vehicles with mine.
Slow - What should have taken 3 months maximum took 8 months. Lame, perplexing excuses were given.
Constant raising of prices - Make sure to get your quote in writing, and ask them to thoroughly explain when they raise prices on you. My quoted price increased tenfold over the months, and I wish I had hired a community advocate.
Shenanigans - As time went on and the price crept up, I would get strange notifications from EMC and UPS about increasingly expensive broken insured parts being returned on multiple occasions. Access Options would never explain these when I asked. I got the feeling they were using my van for some other scheme.
Inability to stand by their work - When I finally got my van back from them, many systems were disabled or changed. "We didn't change anything!" they kept saying, but I had to learn how to use the new controls. For months after the repair, I asked them to fix things they had disabled like the air-conditioning and cruise control, but they refused.
The owner uses conversations with customers as anger management - Speaking with the owner is an exercise in being yelled at almost nonsensically. He will simultaneously broadly exaggerate and then nitpick everything you say. This is done in an angry, interrupting shout. Not a way to do business.
I am essentially married to my van, so I take its care very seriously. I would never let these jokers touch my van again. Everyone else I've talked to with a converted vehicle recommends taking it to San Jose. 1 star for the woman at the front desk who seems to genuinely want to help. read more