Avoid this garage! My experience with them was about 4 months ago. I waited to write this review because I wanted to make sure that what they told me was false. It started with me driving and all of a sudden hearing a rattling in my engine. I was driving by CJ's, I have never been there but wanted to figure out what this noise was. I stopped in and waited a while to talk to someone. I explained what I was hearing and he told me I would have to leave it overnight and he wouldn't suggest me driving it at all. So I wasn't to far from home, I had my daughter with me but she is used to long walks. So I grabbed her and we walked home. The next day it was almost 3 in the afternoon and still didn't hear anything. I knew they were going to be closing soon so I gave them a call. He told me that I needed a new engine and I was looking at a few thousand dollars! I said ok, can you tell me why I need a new engine because it's not that old of a car. He wouldn't give me ANY example or reasoning of why I needed a new one, just kept stating that it needed to be replaced. I then said well, I brought it in for a rattling noise do you know what that is. He said no I didn't want to go any further into the engine without telling you that it just needs a new one. I told him I couldn't afford a new engine at the time, so i will just get it home and let it sit until I got some more money. It just felt really weird the way he was talking to me. I went to get my car and they wanted to charge me $75! When I asked for what you couldn't even tell me what the rattling is, just told me I need a new engine, all he told me was why I brought it in! He responded with "I don't look at anything for free" BUT HE DIDN'T LOOK AT ANYTHING OR TELL ME ANYTHING I DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW! He said he could find out what the rattling was but just looking for it would cost me a couple more hundred dollars. It takes a lot for me to get angry but this got me boiling. I luckily talked them down to $35 because that's what all other garages charge for a diagnostic. But at least other garages will actually tell you whats wrong, or at least tell you why you need a new engine. When driving away I decided to go to another garage, one that I went to before. I told him what was going on with the rattling and he went and looked at my car. The rattling was a valve that fell off and cost me $50! He did a couple other things to it that he said would cause me some problems soon and I paid a total of $350. I then told him what CJ's did and how they wanted to charge me thousands for an engine. He looked at me like I was crazy! He said there is NO way my car needs a new engine and said I was lucky I didn't go through with it! A month later I took it to another garage that one of my friends go to JUST to be sure. And that mechanic told me the same thing, he said I had a great working engine and I shouldn't need a new one for a while. I let it go a couple more months just to be sure because I didn't want to write this review and then have it break down. But it has been running beautifully. You always hear stories of garages that will try to screw people over. But this is the first time that it has actually happened to me. There are way to many other good and honest places around, DO NOT trust these crooks and thieves! read more
