I don't normally write reviews for anywhere I go, but when I was in here a few weeks ago for my BMW…read moreE46, I was super impressed by how professional and knowledgeable everyone at this shop was. Fred and Robert helped me figure out what needed to be done and what I could do myself at home, and if I wasn't moving soon this would be my go-to shop

CAUTION: Not trustworthy. I will never return. I wouldn't even send an enemy here. I don't like to…read morewrite negative reviews. But if I had trusted this shop, I would have given them between $2600-4000 for work that was NOT needed. First off, I was lured in by an Instagram ad that offered me a detail included with an oil change. Sadly, I learned this was too good to be true!!! This shop is not very close to me, so I took about a half day off work to go to this oil appointment, only to be told the marketing person "messed up" and it wasn't really a detail but just a car wash, but they would "do me a favor" and hook it up. Well, they didn't hook it up. I can wash my car far better than they did. And a detail? They didn't even vacuum or dust it. Ridiculous. Next, they tried upselling me at every turn (starting with the detail they tried to sell me until I reminded them it was supposed to be included). They did an "inspection" and quoted me for all kinds of work I didn't need and/or couldn't afford. A Cabin air filter I had just done myself weeks prior. Brakes another shop did 2 months prior. Then some suspension stuff that seemed serious (see pic) - which stressed me out for months, until I finally had saved $ to take it to another shop... (Because, NO WAY I was getting work done at this place after all of the red flags.) Well guess what? Just recently I took it to a different (actually trustworthy) shop. The owner put it on the rack. Came back in with an weird expression as if to say, "you're not going to believe this." I had no idea what was about to happen. I was dreading how costly it might be, as I had delayed the repair by months. He had me walk under my car with him to see these supposedly cracked and leaking tie-rod boots and other issues... and everything was IN PERFECT CONDITION. Which makes sense bc my car has only about 50k miles. So the second shop sent me away without paying a penny, and I'll be going back there to get my brake pads done when they're *actually* due to be done. Shops like Oside Motorsports are why we can't trust mechanics. It's truly sad. I can't imagine if I performed my job this way, trying to unethically take ppl's hard-earned money, just because my customers have little choice but to trust me. It's shameful.

We were traveling pulling our travel trailer to Oceanside for a few days, upon arrival our truck…read morewas making a weird noise and recognized it was coming from the transmission. Checked Yelp reviews and called Don. He understood our timeline and was very focused on getting our truck repaired. He's a RockStar in our book! Easy to talk to, excellent at communicating and managed to get us back on the road sooner than expected. His pricing is very fair. He truly cares about vehicle safety and his customers.

Took my Jeep with A/T in with a serious problem. You can be driving on the highway in the hills,…read moreand when you put it in manual mode, it will intermittently double or triple down-shift when you move the shifter, intending for a single gear downshift. At highway speeds, downshifting from 5th into 2nd gear can blow up your engine. Jeeps don't like 8000 RPM. They had my car for the day, and couldn't reproduce the issue in the .5 miles they drove on my car, then he called me on the phone at 3 pm and tried to tell me I don't know how to shift the car I've owned for 10 years. I told them fine, I'll come get it. I get there 60 minutes later, an hour before they close, and the doors are locked. They left early. They knew I was coming. They could have called, but didn't. Said they had an emergency. That was a lie... they answered their phone after hours with no emergency in their voice. You could see them inside. Tge Open neon sign facing Iceanside blvd was still lit. They just wanted to mess with me. They had my number. They could have told me they "had an emergency". Instead... I spent $15 in an uber getting from work to their shop after they called me, and told me I could come pick it up. Then I had to spend $25 to uber home after finding that out. Then I had to uber back in the morning for another $25. This place should be razed. They are totally worthless. I can prove every bit of this review. It will not be taken down. I was referred to them by Accurate Alignment who is awesome. I am also letting them know they should re-think their recommendation.

Great service as always! Been coming here for 25+ years now and Nancy, Raul & team are always…read morehelpful and courteous. I was able to get done what was needed on my vehicle at a fair price!

My granddad built a nice car shop for him and family to use, my dad helped stock it and I grew up…read morewith them always working on theirs or family members cars. So it's difficult to trust anyone with truly caring for my car and not cheating me because soooo many have attempted until they realize I know a decent amount to not be 'had'. Im grateful each place I've lived I have found places I can trust, takes some searching and listening to locals. A friend recommended this shop and I'm so glad because when I walked in it felt a lot like walking into my granddad's shop. They run a great shop. Workers are nice and seem to really care. They make you feel comfortable leaving such an important part of your family with them, the family car! They have a waiting room, they use to provide snacks, it's been a while since we've waiting there so not sure now. Last few times we've left the vehicle with them. I'm so grateful they didn't push unnecessary upsells on customers. We were out of town and my husband took our suv to a valvoline... now some are decent, but most are all about that upsell and Walmart didnt even change the filter yet said they did and charged me! So while there's been a few times in life I've had to use what was available where I was, we live here now and T n T is where we go! For both vehicles.

The guys down at Well built have supported me through several prijects, I have had two GM 4L60e…read moretransmissions rebuilt by them with plenty of aftermarket/ performance parts. I cannot recommend them enough!! When I needed to get my Audi trans rebuilt and they couldn't do it, they even referred me to a place that could!! Good people down there at WellBuilt.

Holy Cow!! Gary and is staff are awesome. Honest, fast , no BS. They diagnosed the problem fast…read moreand offered me several solutions. His prices were wholesale compared Oceanside Transmission. Gary is not the king of marketing. He's old school word of mouth which is how I learned about. He had our van done in one day when he quoted us up to three. He also changed an engine gasket that was leaking some oil. There are lots of cool cars and dragsters in Gary's shop. If you need a transmission within a 100 miles of Well Built I highly recommend them. I hope to not see Gary for a long time. His work is guaranteed. #loveit

GOING OUT OF BUISNESS?…read more I took my 2013 Ford Fusion to Ruffners Transmission on 03/08/2021 for a diagnoses after a lovely, reassuring conversation with claimed owner Adrian V Soto (Soto Enterprises DBA Ruffners Transmission Company) and although the transaction was far from seamless and I was mislead regarding the timeframe multiple times, we ended the transaction 03/22/2022 on a good note. I called several days later with concern of an issue, the vehicle drove a little rough and a bit shaky, I was told that it was an engine rebuild so it's not going to RUN perfectly smoothly. Adrian: "it should adjust to your driving" Diagnoses Fee: $135 Transmission Rebuild: $4,015.12 Programming Fee: $236.16 Total: $4,386.16 On 12/19/2022 we took the vehicle in again from a leak, we were told the Transmission Seal and Axle Shift need work. I let my husband handle the transaction however being that the repair was likely cased caused by the transmission and shouldn't the seal have been replaced during rebuild I did not agree to the charges! I don't know much about cars! We paid $564.20 So far, for a total $4,815.48 that Soto Enterprise DBA Runffner Transmission has charge to maintenance my vehicle to refuses to honor the warranty provided stating: "I am in $200K plus debt why should I care about your issue" "Im closing down anyway" "I was going to help you out but im not anymore" My frustration was warranted based on the situation that Ruffners put me in both financially and emotionally!

I've been saving making this review because I wanted to be sure everything was squared away with my…read moretruck before reviewing this business. I found Adrian through offerup when looking for a new transmission for my truck, he let me know that they had units available and had the ability to build the trans depending on my power goals. I wanted a stock rebuild just to get the truck going again. I towed my truck to the shop and within about a week it was all squared away, it felt brand new and I had no complaints for about 1000 miles. Unfortunately the truck suddenly wouldn't go into reverse, a freak accident cause a piece to break inside the trans (this was not their fault) I hit up Adrian to let him know my issue and he immediately got me into the shop despite them being fully booked. I received my truck again today and it feels like a brand new truck again. I normally don't take any of my vehicles to shops because I work on my cars myself, I have been for almost 10+ years. But due to my current living situation I don't have any place to do big jobs like a trans swap. From one mechanic to the general public, I trust Adrian and his workers to get the job done! Highly recommend this place.

I must say, considering times are tough, There are two…read morepeople in this office! One is the owner the other the employee At the desk! Both very nice and courtious! But this place is a dump! I've seen better taken care of properties in junk yards! The office is flilty, doesn't look like it's been cleaned in years! Everything looks out of place. Let's just say a feminine touch wouldn't hurt the place! As well as Stocco & fresh paint, shelves etc. I can't believe AAMCO puts their name on the building.

I have a 2019 Lincoln Nautilus. It started shifting funny on the freeway. So I took it to some…read morefriends of mine, who happenen to be Porsche mechanics for over 40 years. They did a diagnostic on it, ran the codes and came up with a p0771 pending code regarding the solenoid. They explained to me what it would cost to take it off and put it back and what the part would cost. But, he said, American transmissions are not really in they're wheelhouse right now, besides they have a ton of work to do. They suggested I take it to aamco since they just work on transmissions. As a 40-year Porsche mechanic, he estimated the job could be done relatively quick for about 500 to $700. When I took it to aamco, we told him what the code was but he really wasn't trying to hear that. He just kept restating that he was going to check the battery, the electrical system and other mechanical parts of the car to make sure everything was running fine. I said okay whatever, but just know that there's a code. He called me back the next day and told me they had run a diagnostic on it, pulled up a couple other codes and took it for a couple test drives to try to duplicate the problem - which eventually they were able to do. Then he told me it was going to be $1,485 to take the transmission apart so they can figure out what's wrong with it. I was like wtf? What about the code? He said well we're not positive that's it and there's a couple other codes that came up and you have dirty transmission fluid and something else is going on with it. I told him no thanks I'll just come back and get the car since it's $1,500 just to take it apart and a 40-year mechanic told me it was a $700 job. I got back the next morning and picked up my car. I dropped it off with almost a full tank. 350 mi left in the tank. When I picked it up, it had 267 miles left in the tank. Where in the heck have you been with my car! Bunch of unprofessional losers. There was also a coffee cup in my cup holder! Wtf? You just out running errands in my car and getting coffee? I have a dash cam rear view mirror. It has a power cord, a USB attachment, and also an audio cable. He unplugged all of them for some reason and just left the cords hanging. What does the mirror have to do with the transmission?! Wtf? On the phone, he told me I shouldn't be driving it that much if any at all because it's just going to make the transmission worse. But again, when I picked up the car, there was 80 mi missing from the gas tank! Absolutely unprofessional and the reason why people hate mechanics. Don't ever go here. It's seems to be massive money-hungry dirty scam by the owner.

Craig and Jimmy are amazing! Always providing trusted and transparent service! Highly recommend to…read moreanyone in search of a local mechanic!

My brother tried to contact them numerous times and could never reach them. Too bad. They lost $5K…read moreworth of work.

Overall amazing experience. I arrived for brake service after hearing a noise from my brakes…read morethinking it was time to change them. After an inspection I was informed that the brakes still have life to them and their recommendation was to not change the brakes as there was still plenty of life to them. Other places would have completed the service and never informed me that I still had life left on my brake pads. This is a very honest establishment that will be getting my business when it's time to get service. They even recalibrated my TPS system free of charge as they noticed it was on during their inspection. Would highly recommend this place! Honest people at a very fair price.

I had a minor issue with my motorcycle, they helped me get it resolved in less than 5 minutes and…read morelet me go free of charge! Thank you so much!

Needed new tires for the back. Place is small but really good service. Bike was ready within 24…read morehours. Great turn around time. Price seems reasonable especial for how quick I was on the road again

This shop has always been my go too. There is this old saying; "once you find a honest mechanic,…read morestick with them". Subie shop has always done me right and been so transparent with me over the years, and this is why I have been coming here for 9 years now. I have let them re-build my motor from top to bottom, brembo break rebuild, heads machined, and everything in between. This place gets it done and right. One thing that really had me trust them, was about 7 years ago they were pulling my motor and they accidentally put the tiniest scratch on a piece of metal that no one would see, but they still called me to let me know. Now that is rare! With all the scamming going on out in the world why trust anyone else. Thank you Jose and staff for always being so genuine! You have earned yourself a forever customer. Thomas H

Everything went well!I couldn't had made a better decision on a major project.I knew it was gonna…read morecost a lot.At the end he gave me some discounts and didn't charge me for the tow bout 2-300 on that.I'm gonna go here before I would dare go to Audi dealer.Thanks John!

i was satisfied with the work done on my vehicle and would gladly recommend this business.read more