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Recently My wife and I run into a situation at Precision Tune Auto Care - 3910 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd, Durham, NC 27707 where one extremely awful mechanic took fully in charge and did everything his own way for almost three months without fixing the car.
The worst part of this is no one knows from his shop what he was doing. The coworkers, owner of the shop or front desk assistant do not have any clue what so ever. There are no documentations how many times we went there and tried to get help from him.
We really would like to share our horrible experience and give everyone a heads up for future reference.
If you noticed any abnormal handling or miss treating behavior with the mechanic or any stuff members, DO NOT WASTE ANY TIME, contact customer care IMMEDITALY
Customer care : 919-469-2450
Email : customerservice@precisionac.com
Precision Tune Auto Care has unbelievable and amazing customer care to support their customers specially if you run into a situation like we have.
They listen everything what you have to say and will be on the top of it immediately and effectively. We have never seen anything like this.
We learned how precision Auto Care customer are Extremely above and beyond to resolve any issues.
Believe it or not once we contact the customer care, they responded immediately and did not want to waste any second. They arranged with another location of precision auto and towed our car and fixed the issue on the same day.
We picked up our car the next day. We could not believe how friendly and professional people they are. If it was not for them, Danny- Mechanic is actually left us in the pile of Garbage.
Here is our horrified experiences
Danny is the mechanic who was handling and working on our car. He run the diagnostic test and called us what's need to be done and he said the spark plug and all of the cables needs to be replaced then he gave us an estimate of $800. We told him to go ahead and complete the necessary fix. He then told us to stop by around 4:00 pm to pick up the vehicle. When my wife and I went to pick up the vehicle, he was still working on it and said he told us he is running few tests and should be ready in a while for pick up. By 6:00 pm, he said he had to order a computer to adjust or sort of calibration needs to be done to adjust the rattling and shaking. He will be calling a guy to bring the computer on Monday and install so he can run the adjustments. He then said to drive the vehicle home safely and to bring the car back on Monday. He will call us once the computer arrives. We paid the $794.20 and left home. For the next three months he never fixed the issue but keep giving us all kinds of lies. He really thinks that we are completely foolish and dummy but what he actually did not realized is that we are much more intellectual, respectful and super patient people who tried to give him a chance and more time so he can help us. Unfortunately, he probably not thinking that way.
Here are the exact responses that Danny gave us during the last three months when we go there and asked him for updates on part he ordered
1) The person who supposed to bring the computer and install did not show up
2) The computer delivered but looks like they dropped it and Software blew up
3) Had to order another computer
4) I ordered the computer and will take between 4-5 days and will let you know when I receive
5) I have to go to Garner and pick up the computer from another location
6) I have called Mitsubishi dealership and will pick up the computer.
After three months going back and forth to Danny (Mechanic) with no hope of resolution, we finally escalated and had to fix our car at the different location. The worst part of this is no one knows what he was doing.
We gave 1 star for this shop because of what Danny did to us and no one was monitoring him during these entire three months period of time. We are not trying to give other people the wrong impression and damage the entire Precision Auto Care Industry and all Hard-working people services at all. This is just a wake up call for both everyone who works there and upper level Management so anyone should not go through what we went through. read more