DO NOT TAKE YOUR CAR TO MARK COLLINS!!!! Mark is unprofessional, rude, and dishonest!! MARK IS A SCAMMER AND A FRAUDULENT MAN WHO CANNOT BE TRUSTED!! I should have looked at the other reviews before I took my car to him!! Mark Collins, the owner, had my truck for an entire week to fix an oil leak. He spent 3 days just trying to get a screw off...that was a bad sign right there. Every time we called him about the status of my truck, he had a different excuse as to why it was not ready. After 7 days I told him I needed my truck and we went to pick it up. He told us he had fixed the oil leak, but when I put the key in the ignition, the check engine light was now on and it was not on before. He was confused and could not figure out why the check engine light was on. We were there for an additional 3 hours waiting for him to figure out why the check engine light was on. We brought it back the next day to fix the new problem he created...he then said it was the O2 sensor. He told us that he put a brand new O2 sensor on my truck and that the light should go off. The check engine light NEVER went off. When we got my truck home the same day, my truck would no longer start and Mark came to my house to see what was wrong. Mark still had no clue why my truck was now not running. Mark also charged us an additional $500 from the price he initially quoted us stating that he had to charge for his additional time, the time that was his fault because he made the check engine light come on. Mark is a SCAMMER AND A FRAUD AND SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED!! If you value your car and money do not take your car to Collins Auto in Douglasville. Additionally, we took my truck to a more reputable and capable mechanic who told us that the O2 was never changed and that it was the old O2 sensor still on my truck. The mechanic took it off and showed us how old and worn it was. But Mark Collins lied and said he replaced the O2 sensor and charged us for a brand new O2 sensor. We paid over 1K for my truck repair with Mark and still had issues. We called him and told him what the mechanic who actually fixed my truck said about him NOT replacing the O2 sensor. He didn't even deny that he lied to us. He charged us for a part and service that he never put on my truck. He then told us to bring him the receipt for our repair work, which was an additional $300 from the other mechanic. He said he
would reimburse us, but when we went to his shop, he only reimbursed us less than half of the $300. Mark also makes up prices along the way, as opposed to having a standard pricing list. Mark yelled and cursed at me in person and on the phone. My husband had to call him to handle that situation. He ruins cars and refuses to correct the issue!! Please read his reviews, all of them, not the ones that he had people make up on his behalf to make him look good!! He is the ABSOLUTE WORST MECHANIC I've ever encountered. He is very argumentative and combative!!! When he had to come to my house to see why my truck wouldn't start, he attempted to be nice and made up some story stating that it was a reason for us meeting, and some other weird story. He's a con artist and a jack legged preacher. read more