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The owner point-blank lied in their reply. Never was I asked about 'original tires' or any other question related to tires & all 4 tires match each other. I was asked for payment from this shop because I was in fact a direct customer of theirs for oil change, as that is obviously not a service included in any collision-related insurance repairs they were separately subcontracted for by another shop. They state that another shop brought in the car & yet claim they asked questions about my tires in a completely self-contradictory attempt to lie their way out of their failures. They refused to *even glance* at the tire pressure light claiming not part of service done, despite front desk stating they had. I offered to pay when came in, they refused to accept, literally closing the door on me. I called about payment, they rejected the calls too.
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Landing Auto Service has proven completely unethical, rude, unreliable, causing more damage than repairs and to have engaged in insurance fraud, and I would advise avoided them at all costs.
They have provided the worst service from any shop or business have ever encountered. Untrustworthy to say the least, fraudulent beyond that. Car brought in for service, filling tires and oil. Came back with tire pressure sensor lights on. Turns out they reduced down to less than half specified pressure for tires (24 vs 50). Brought to another shop quickly rectified. Landing Auto point blank lied saying "car came in that way with warning light on" and refused to even *look* at the warning light and refused to even top off tires to fix it.
Though front desk confirmed earlier they messed with tires, mechanic refused to even acknowledge that was done, instead preferring to lie about an easily fixed issue. Point blank called me a liar multiple times and closed the doors to shop rather than even take the 1 second to look at sensor or consider possibility even while standing next to the car.
They also told me they did work on the Anti-lock Brake system which was never needed. When I brought up, they called me a liar and said never did it. After pressing several times, another admitted they did tell me this Anti-lock Brake work was done, but was due to "mis-documenting", but then continued to insist I was wrong for asking about work that was never done.
They then shut down the entire shop rather than even take 1 second to look at sensors or acknowledge they did any work on tires.
They jammed heads-up speed display, and refused to even look at it, claiming "unrelated to oil change" refusing to even acknowledge all the other work they did and how the heads-up display was fine when car dropped off with them and then broken when picked it up, despite documenting with another mechanic before I'd even driven it an inch.
Then claimed there was 0% an airbag sensor issue could ever result from a car crash, despite their having replaced it entirely and fraudulently billing insurance for entire replacement, despite fact that another mechanic previously confirmed airbag issue was resolved simply after resetting the sensor.
They then claimed that their fraudulent overbilling was in fact my own fraud, that I must have gotten into car crash just in order to get a new free sensor that was clearly unnecessary. When I challenged them to check system logs as well as mechanic full system inspection report that occurred from a different shop days and photos from showing no airbag sensor issue didn't exist until the crash, they scoffed at the idea of "checking logs/reports" and simply called me a liar several more times to my face.
They scheduled a time for me to come in and then when I arrived said "have no time now or later" to even look at the car for several seconds or hear out a description of what the result of their service was.
Both issues were quickly resolved once brought to another shop, within minutes, for things they would rather shut down their entire shop than take 1 second to lean in and look it and would prefer to lie about being unrelated and pre-existing, kicking me out when came in to pay for service, and refused to answer multiple calls regarding it after that.
Considering there are 21 5-star reviews which Yelp has already flagged as suspicious & hidden, I wonder how many of other remaining reviews are similarly likely to be fake.
At this point I'm likely to report Landing Auto to the National Insurance Crime Bureau and file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau for their fraudulent, dishonest, unethical practices.
I suggest going to literally any other shop than Landing Auto as in 35+ years I have never encountered any business of any kind (not just Auto related) which was proven as unethical, rude, insulting and willing to lie, inaccurate, providing result worse off than when came in, and unwilling to even acknowledge what services were done. read more