I broke down on my first day of our river vacation.
I started to call around auto shops and found "Honest Johns" who advertises as a mobile repair company.
Convenient I thought, so I called him up around 9:30am
He's said it sounds like he just needs to clean my Throttlebody and I should be good. He promised to be here at 3:00 ish.
I called him at 2:00 and confirmed.
I called at 3:00 and he said he was running late and it would be about 45 min.
He never showed up never called.
I could have taken it in town and got it fixed.
I finally got ahold of him around 5:30, and he said he would be here the next day at 7:00am
I texted him at 6:30 and he said 40 min.
7:30. Still no call no show.
I did remind him I have 3 kids with me that need to get home from a ruined vacation.
Obviously that doesn't matter to Honest John.
I guess what I learned is don't trust anyone that tells you there "Honest".
At 7:30 I text him and he responded, "almost there".
He did show up. And was a nice guy. He disconnected my battery which I found out later cancels all the error codes in the system.
Did what he said would do the trick.
I paid him and drove it around the block.
He took off.
I later packet up the kids and the gear and headed for home.
We got about 10 miles and we broke down with the same challenges.
I called him and he told me to take it to a shop in town.
I should have done that the day before.
I limped home with the kids that had to get home and pulling a trailer. The 3 1/2 trip took me just over 6 hours. And Very Unsafe. read more