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    4.9 (41 reviews)

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    Auto diagnosis or inspection

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    Auto transmission repair

    Routine automotive maintenance

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    Kids in the trunk of a Toyota Corolla with 450,000 miles on it. And she is still rolling!!
    Isaac Z.

    TEN YEARS LATER UPDATE! I cannot give a stronger vote of confidence to The Car Connection. They have serviced my 2004 Toyota Corolla since the car was brand new. They have helped this car last FOREVER. Oil changes, brakes, tune ups and all the required maintenance has been performed by the trusted Car Connection mechanics. This damn car has outlasted all of my family members and neighbors cars. Over the last 10-15 years, I have endlessly heard the following: "Duuuuude, are you still driving that Corolla?" "I can't believe that old ass car is still driving!" "How long are you gonna keep that damn Corolla?" "Don't you want to get something new?" This car was paid off so many years ago, I forgot what it's like to even have a car payment. No shame in my game. I'm good with no car payment. For the last 18 years, this car has sipped gasoline up and down the California coast, to Las Vegas and all over the unpaved roads of Baja California, México. All the automatic windows work. One failed, but Louie fixed it. A/C blows ice cold. Always has. When the battery died, Louie would replace it. Brakes get squeaky, Louie would replace them. Still a very smooth ride after all these years. Original engine. Original transmission. The digital odometer broke and froze at 299,999 miles many years ago. Since the odometer froze, we estimated the car has a total of at least 450,000 miles. No joke. This car is still mechanically sound. Took it to Toyota for an see the airbag light on the dash was related to an airbag recall. The official Toyota comprehensive inspection revealed, aside from the airbag issue, no red flags. LOLOLOL. The moral of the story is this. Get yourself an honest, reliable mechanic. Stick with them. Take their advice when they make repair recommendations. Don't save a nickel today to only end up paying a dollar tomorrow. Even for a Corolla, I got an unreal amount of use out of my vehicle. Its very important to give credit when it's due. The Car Connection is legendary in San Diego for providing the best possible guidance for maintaining your vehicle. The next time your car needs service or has issues... you know where to go.

    Very, very clean install. I didn't ask for all of those relays and fuses, but Louie took it on himself to go above and beyond.
    Geoff L.

    Louie is a legend. Honest, direct, and never afraid to call it how it is. And he seemingly knows everything about cars, from vintage hot rods to modern hybrids. He's helped me chase out shorts in a 45+ year old dash wiring harness, identified and fixed a problem with the variable valve timing in my wife's modern Honda, and converted my vintage Jeep to modern fuel injection/electronic ignition. Louie hearkens from the days when mechanics knew how to fix stuff--not just look at a computer for an error code and sell you a bolt on part to "solve" a problem. I'd give six stars if I could.

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    I was referred to Louie and he's a man of his word. Despite his busy schedule he was able to fit me in, change my oil and transmission oil.

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    So sweet. Reliable and honest. Haven't taken my car anywhere else since I discovered them. Highly recommend them!

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    DO NOT GO HERE. If you're female or black I don't think this is a safe place to bring other car,…read morethey didn't care about my car or my safety. Villa and the English speaker wouldn't listen to me about my car just shutting off/stalling on the freeway & claimed twice that they fixed everything. After almost 1,000 spent, it was having the same issues, but worse. I was promised that they test drove it & I could take it on the freeway and that was a lie. I broke twice after they said it was fixed. I was trying to explain what issue kept arising & the guy kept cutting me off just saying it costs a lot of money. Literally just playing around in my car & not fixing the main issue. They just made a lot of money doing maintenance & now my car had been towed back home & basically totaled. I tried to tell them it may be the fuel injectors like another mechanic said , but they wouldn't listen to me because I'm a female & just went on replacing a bunch of stuff that wasn't the problem. They really ruined my car situation and now I have to get a new one. Money wastes and now my car is worse; I can't drive it in to a mechanic, now I have to tow it in. I'm figuring out what the next steps are to take because this is not right.

    These guys just flat out suck. Every time I took my car in to get looked at they had poor excuses…read more This last time I called he asked what did I need . In the midst of explaining my situation the guy cut me off . Horrible business.

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