**Please read this if you are planning on having any services done here. Important to note that the owner offered a discount on our final bill if we signed an NDA not to discuss our experience at his shop. Obviously, we declined.**
We wanted really to like this place being as it is a local business. My finance and I originally brought our Jeep in to have snow tires put on it. We dropped it off on a Thursday and were told that it would be ready the next day. We also asked to have them run diagnostics on it as we believed something was off with the transmission. Fast forward to the following Tuesday afternoon, and the car is still not done (6 days). This is not for a lack of trying as we called the shop every day for an update as we have two children and both work full time and were struggling with having only one car. Aggravating, but we managed and understood it's a busy time of year.
The car was finally ready to be picked up Wednesday morning and this is where it took a truly bizarre turn. The owner, Ross, had offered over the phone to do a transmission flush for the price of just the parts ($100) since we had waited so long for the car to be done. However, when we went to pick up the car, we were told the balance was almost $700. After some back and forth with the owner, he starts to become almost belligerent. He tells my finance to leave his shop, puts a boot on the car, and tells us that unless we pay the full balance we're not getting our car back. He called my finance an a**hole (on video), told us that he would bring the price down to $400 (on video) then once we got upset told us "forget it, now it's full price again" (also, on video), then stormed off and had one of his mechanics try to "mediate" with us since apparently Ross was "too emotional". We stayed relatively calm during this entire ordeal and the only one causing a scene was the owner. I will say, his mechanic, Patrick, was super helpful and nice. However, he told us Ross was too emotional to make a decision and he would call us at 2.
We leave the car there, again, and my finance gets a call later from the shop. The owner offers $200 off the price if we will sign an NDA agreeing not to talk about our experience. HAHA, what?! Obviously, we paid full price after paying $1200 for the tires and vowed to let local residents know about our experience in hopes that it will keep you from being treated this way. Seriously, avoid this place at all costs. I can't speak for everyone else there but the owner is fraudulent at best.
Also, there's still something wrong with the transmission after all of this... read more