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Tehachapi, CA

P & N Garage

4.6 (47 reviews)
Closed • 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Rick G.

    P&N went extremely way above & beyond to assist me and my family. Returning from vacation Central California back to Northern Arizona, our car broke down. Susannah & staff take customer service to the next level. Thank you so much for everything. My Charger is back home!

    Jeff K.

    Two weeks ago I had my car in for a transmission flush, new spark plugs and oil change. Next day the vehicle was running terribly, it's missing, and the engine light keeps flashing. This whole experience has been a bad ordeal for us. We dropped it off Friday and an hour later the office staff called stating they misquoted us, didn't have the right parts and could not do the work that day. We arranged to bring the car back Tuesday leaving my wife without a car for the day. When she arrived the mechanic tried to turn her away because the office staff was out and the shop was essentially closed. The other mechanic was aware of the situation and the service was able to be done. The next day the vehicle was misfiring. We we had to go back two days in a row. My wife and I have lost many hours getting things resolved. I even paid $100.15 to replace a sensor that did not fix the problem and I can only assume wasn't bad in the first place. Finally Friday last week I demanded the original work from the previous Tuesday be reevaluated. The mechanic "discovered" cylinder 2 was misfiring instead of the random misfire he said the code reader was stating. I asked he remove it. Sure enough there was a huge crack in it. The mechanic stated it must be bad. It was replaced and I drove it ok until yesterday when it began to misfire again. Last Friday I had the car towed to Bakersfield where the shop that services the fleet of work vehicles at my work look at it. When I gave them the invoice for the work you did last Tuesday they immediately asked me why weren't the coils replaced. I stated I didn't know they needed it. They stated a vehicle with 200K miles needs new coils along with plugs. They also stated the plugs you put in were less than ideal. Next they removed the cylinder 2 plug. Again it had a huge crack. Two in a row? They stated the coil was bad causing the plug to fail and crack. They replaced the cylinder 2 coil and plug and the car no longer misfired. I would have gladly paid you for new coils and better plugs. They figured this out in minutes! I drive up and down to Bakersfield daily. I brought you a car with nothing wrong with it to do preventive maintenance and it's in worse shape and cost me more money and time than it should have. So on Today I had better plugs and new coils put in at a cost of almost $500! I think of full refund of the plug replacement portion of the first invoice and a complete refund of sensor replacement is in order. You have lost a customer

    Mechanic screaming at me and my elderly mother while she holds my one year old son. Still works there

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    8 years ago

    Awesome! Smog check in a flash, with excellent customer service. Definitely will return.

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    10 years ago

    Fast throughout entire process. Very business like.. Not Chatty, gets the job done in record time.

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    “I went to P & N for a smog check, just picked them out of the paper because it said pass or don't pay.”

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