Drove 30 minutes to Hialeah at 8:00 am on a Saturday morning because my wife's car alarm would not stop going off until the battery died. I heard of a truly honest mechanic and I just had to see this with my own eyes!
After jumping her 2007 Scion we headed to Bayamo Repair Centre. Rolie greeted us and immediately popped the hood to take a look. He could have tried to convince my wife that her blinker fluid was low, but he pointed out the corrosion on the battery looked bad, but was not the problem. He went all Click & Clack (the Tappet Brothers from NPR) on us with questions about sounds and odd things that we noticed over the past two weeks. He deduced that the battery charge was too low to start the car, but the after market alarm installed 10 years ago had a back-up that allowed it to go off nice and loud. He gave us several options for replacing the battery. We chose a new Interstate battery.
He asked my wife for her alarm remote. Turns out she lost that over two years ago. Who is going to steal a 10-year old Scion? So we had him remove the alarm as well. Maybe he can resell it to someone else because he only charged us as much as the battery alone was quoted to us from several garages near my office in Coral Gables! Once those garages added labor and the oil change it was twice what Bayamo charged! (We got an oil change as well.)
We will be back and referring others. If nothing else, to get the NPR treatment from a man who genuinely loves his craft and was very honest. read more