Have a 97 Tacoma, 3.4. Had a problem getting her engine back together, brought her to Tony…read more A day later he's got her running and charged me way less than I thought it was going to be. And, I was so happy I asked him to quote me a new front (bearings and balls) and he honestly said he doesn't do suspension work, and recommended someone else. Honest guy, and know what he does well.

I called on 4/2/26 and while I was speaking to a guy on the phone, he hung up on me. I called back…read more7x during the day but the phone kept ringing and no one picked up. I called again the next day and left a message and no one ever called back.

The diagnostic testing done and estimated cost were spot on…read more Major repair work was done expertly and in a timely manner. Juan explained in detail what issues needed to be addressed. The car runs like new. Would highly recommend Rizzoli's for trustworthy repairs and a friendly and compassionate attitude towards the customer. Well done. Thank you.

Thank you all the way from San Diego, CA - The Rizzoli Team of Santa Maria taking care of business…read more We are a shop located in San Marcos Ca. The North part of San Diego. One of a clients was in need of some help with some repair that our shop initially did. Since Centric Auto Repair had a Nation wide warranty - Rizzoli and there mechanics we able to diagnose and repair the issue all in one day . It was on a Friday. Generally shops are fighting to finish mechanical repairs from the begging of the week, so I though it was going to be tough to find a place to help. out now mutual customer lives in Santa Maria area, I hope she finds her new auto repair shop with Rizzoli Automotive. Thank you for kindly working on her Volkswagen Passat. God bless your team!

The good. By appearance the shop looked clean & the staff were kind. I asked what it would cost me…read morefor a mechanic to look at my suspension on my Chevy impala as I suspected it may need some work. I was quoted an inspection would cost me $375. !Needles to say I was surprised at the excessive cost so I left. I then went to another established shop who charged me $80. For the inspection. I doubt that I'll return to Pats again.

BEWARE, BAIT AND SWITCH! Went today to their location. We received a coupon in the mail for an oil…read morechange for 59.00 dollars which includes a oil filter. We were told we needed another filter and the total would be 109!!! Dollars and we could not JUST get what was on The coupon! Total bait and switch!! Cheats and thieves not honoring the coupon they sent out!!! Save yourself the headache and go somewhere else. What a waste of time!

I went to Jaeckels Automotive after my daughter getting some outlandish diagnosis from a…read moredealership. They said brakes were dangerously in need of replacement and catalytic converter was 'trending down' and would need replacement. Jaeckels inspected the vehicle and reported that the brakes had at 20k before they even needed to be looked at and, as I suspected, the catalytic converter was fine and you can't test them to rate as trending down. I appreciated the honesty and the integrity to give the facts when we would have been accepting of brake jobs and been unaware they were not needed now. The dealership put my daughter in a state of fear because they said the brakes were so bad they were unsafe. She even postponed a trip until we could get them taken care of. Jaeckels has earned my future business and my respect for their business practice. I recommend Jaeckels without hesitation.

I have been going here since import auto shut down. This is…read morethe most honest and straight forward automotive repair shop one could ask for.

I've been coming here for years!! Fast, friendly, and excellent service! I did not have an…read moreappointment but within 10 minutes of opening, my car's SMOG check was already being taken care of. The value is great, and they have signs posted with their prices so there are no hidden fees. I will continue coming here every time! Cesar's team is gr, and I know if You communicate with them, they will do their best to help.

I called and asked Cesar if he could do a smog check on my Toyota 4Runner. He said be there in 30…read moreminutes. I showed up on time and he was done with the smog check in 8 minutes. Excellent timely service. He was nice and recommended other maintenance and even a window repair guy for the crack I have. The smog check was $10 cheaper than the other popular smog stations in town and way better customer service.

A Shop With A Heart & Quality Work If you're on vacation,…read moretraveling through the Santa Maria area, a local resident with an unexpected car drivability problem, or just plain looking for an honest, down-to-earth shop that provides quality work, don't fret! There is such a shop that you can trust without hesitation! For the past three years, the repairs and services on my 2012 Ford Escape and 2012 VW Turbo S Coupe have been handled solely at Rick's Car Care, without a worry or hesitation on my part about their qualifications to do the work right the first time. Needless but necessary to state, the estimate and cost of the work to be done are reasonable, not inflated. What makes Rick's Car Care stand out above other family-owned independent automotive repair and service shops? To begin with, it is founded on old-school customer service, honesty, and quality work. Something that is becoming extinct when deep-pocket corporations purchase shops from retiring owners. However, a bright light shines on the answer to this dark auto repair and service scenario: Rick's Car Care! A family-owned independent shop owned by Erick Enright and his wife, Amanda, that remains steadfast in providing great customer service and the highest-quality repairs and services to its clientele. If you are seeking honest, friendly shops that provide quality work, I highly recommend this shop not just as a John Q. Public customer, but also as a former sole proprietor and automotive technician at a local shop.

I have mixed, but mostly positive, opinions of this business. The staff seemed friendly, and I…read moreappreciate that they took the time to provide a thorough diagnosis of my vehicle. They confirmed that my spark plugs and wires were heavily worn by swapping the spark plug from cylinder 4 to cylinder 6, where the misfire followed the plug. That gave me confidence that the spark plug was the source of the issue. That being said, there were a few aspects of the experience that I think prospective customers should know about. First, the diagnostic fee was $180, which I felt was on the expensive side. I came in already suspecting that the issue involved the spark plugs and wires, so I wasn't expecting such an extensive diagnostic process. After discussing the repair with other mechanics, I also learned that removing and reinstalling older spark plugs can carry some risk on higher-mileage engines because aged plugs can seize or break during removal. Nothing went wrong in my case, but I would have appreciated that potential risk being explained before the diagnostic procedure was performed. Better communication would have gone a long way. I was also told, "I don't want to scare you into not driving this vehicle," while being encouraged to complete the repairs there. If there was a genuine safety concern, I appreciate hearing it, but I would have preferred a more practical conversation focused on the condition of the vehicle and my options rather than feeling pressure to make an immediate repair decision. Additionally, when I asked whether there were ways to reduce the cost, I was told the fuel system service could be postponed and completed later. That made me wish the recommendations had been presented from the beginning with a clearer distinction between what was necessary to address the misfire and what could reasonably be deferred as preventative maintenance. Ultimately, I chose to have the repairs completed elsewhere because I was able to supply my own parts and save money overall. Although Rick's labor estimate was higher ($468 compared to $200 elsewhere), the total repair cost ended up being lower because the other shop allowed me to provide my own parts. I don't believe this is a bad shop, and I think it's a friendly, family-owned business that performs thorough diagnostics. I'm simply encouraging customers to ask questions, understand the diagnostic costs and repair recommendations, and make the decision that best fits their own situation.

This was one of my worst experiences try to smog my diesel cruz. I have never had a person be so…read morenon communicative. He would ask questions i did not understand, he did not explain himself. I was completely confused. I should have left when my gut told me to. My car didn't pass he charged me 60 dollars and then proceeded to say he will charge 30 more dollars when I brought it back. In all my years I have never had a smog place do this. I felt he was trying to play a scam on me. Taking advantage of a woman. I will never use this place again. I took it to another place and it passed. Imagine that

WORST decision we've made coming to this shop…read more All we needed was a diagnostic on our AC for any leaks. The mechanic said they'd have it looked at within an hour...we check in an hour later and still nothing. We call 30mins before they close, and still no update. We finally talk to the manager of the shop and he agrees to have it done within an hour. The shop told us there wasn't any leaks and they refilled the freon, cost us $450. TWO DAYS LATER, the AC stops working. We took our truck in to the dealership (should've just done this in the first place) and we had a huge leak, needed to replace the condenser, and a freon refill bc of the leak. Dealership was accommodating with the price based on our prior trip to this useless place. I asked the shop for a refund since they DID NOT do their job. The shop gave us back a lousy $150 and kept $300 for "labor". What labor?!! They did nothing, wasted our money for a half ass job. Please do not go there. They obviously don't value their customers.

I came in for a smog check after recently replacing some parts and clearing codes on my truck. I…read morehad driven it around afterward and thought I had given the emissions monitors enough time to reset. Apparently, they were not ready yet. This is where the problem begins. Any decent shop would contact the customer the moment they plugged in the truck, let them know the monitors were not ready, and tell them to drive it more and come back. That is not how this shop handled it. Instead, they charged me $50, called it a failed smog even though their own paperwork said "NOT READY," told me I would have to pay full price again when I came back, and then wanted another $150 to "diagnose" why it did not pass. The irony is that there was apparently nothing mysterious to diagnose. The monitors simply had not completed yet. They never clearly explained that to me. I ended up putting two and two together myself from the paperwork they handed me, and I fear many people have fallen prey to this trap and paid $150 for such a basic piece of information. When I went back in and pushed back on the charge, the guy behind the desk said, "It failed, and I told you it was $50 for a fail." I had only taken it here because they said they could squeeze me in. They were completely empty, probably for good reason. I was also confident that there was no warning light or any actual emissions problem that would cause the truck to fail. I pointed directly to the sheet where it said "NOT READY" and told him, "That does not say fail. It says not ready." His response was basically, "Well, we tried to test it and it didn't pass." That is a pathetic money grab for two seconds of work. At that point, I told him that we clearly have very different understandings of what a failed smog test means. To me, a vehicle actually being tested and failing emissions is very different from a vehicle simply not being ready to complete the test because its monitors are not yet ready. Then, to make the interaction even more bizarre, we were told that "they would have told us if we came in with better attitudes." So apparently, the explanation for what happened to your vehicle is something you only get if the staff approves of your attitude. Otherwise, they will apparently let you leave confused and offer to explain it for another $150. This isn't even true, given that when he said it failed over the phone I was quite pleasant and would have respected the entire process if there was actually an issue with the opacity test or some non CARB compliant part on the car. So this statement isn't true because he initially refused and asked $150 for diagnostic over the phone when I was kind and understanding, before I figured out they were pulling a scam. This could all have been avoided. Once they plugged the truck in and saw that the readiness monitors had not completed, they should have told me it needed to be driven more and had me return once it was actually ready to be tested. They should never have turned that into a $50 "failed" smog, refused to clearly explain what happened, told me I would have to pay again, and then tried to charge another $150 to diagnose it over the phone. I drove around more and went to an upstanding shop. Not only would that shop have let me know free of charge if the monitors were not ready, but it also had what I consider a pretty standard policy: if a vehicle actually fails, the customer receives a free retest within two weeks. If you do anything, do not come to this shop for a smog test. Go to any other nonpredatory, half-decent shop. Based on how this situation was handled, I would not trust them with repairs either. And if nothing else, I will consider the $50 a donation toward a better landline, because somehow you can barely understand a word they are saying on the phone despite the lobby being completely silent. I would not return, and I absolutely would not recommend this shop.

Excellent service, very helpful in explaining everything to me, 100 percent honest and upfront. The…read moreAuto Shop is a perfect place to take your vehicle. I would recommend them to anyone. I want to give a special thanks to Juan and Joe for all their help. Thank you.

We had an excellent experience on Sunday afternoon at Big Brand Tire, thanks for Francisco going…read morethe extra mile for us. A big nail found its way into our brand new tire while we were on a long journey. Although Francisco did not have my tire in stock, he drove nearby to get it and provided exceptional and professional service throughout. Andrew was able to put on the new tire and did a great job. It's hard to find trustworthy, hard working and good people--Francisco deserves an A+. I highly recommend Big Brand Tire in Santa Maria.

I called two days in advance to schedule an appointment to have the tires on my 2015 Suburban…read morerotated. I purchased the tires from your store and was told that tire rotations were included as a free service. I showed up on time for my appointment, only to be told that I did not have an appointment scheduled. They offered to try to squeeze me in, but then told me they would not perform the free rotation because there was some wear on my front tires. I was also told that when I originally purchased the tires, I had declined an alignment. I want to clarify that I did decline the alignment, but only because I had already been sitting there for well over two hours when I purchased the tires and simply could not wait any longer. This was not because I did not want the service. Unfortunately, this is not the first time I have experienced this type of treatment, particularly when it comes to services that are supposed to be free under the tire warranty. I have repeatedly watched other customers who arrived after me get taken care of while I continued waiting. I have been a customer here for years, and my family members have also purchased tires from your store. However, after this experience, I will no longer be returning. I purchased these tires with the understanding that they came with certain warranty services, including free rotations. Being told that the store would not provide that service--especially after I had called ahead and arrived for what I believed was a scheduled appointment--is extremely disappointing and unacceptable. I hope management will review what happened and address how these warranty services and appointments are being handled. Longtime customers should not have to repeatedly deal with these kinds of issues.

These guys are hard working, honest and have reasonable prices. They are my go-to mechanic.read more

After searching all over Santa Maria for someone to install running boards on my 2024 Toyota…read moreTacoma, I called 3 Carnales Automotive and am I ever glad I did. Without hesitation Roberto told me to bring in my truck and they would install the boards. It took him just under 2 hours to install and he was the cheapest in town also. Would I recommend them to my friends and family, ABSOLUTLY. Friendly and professional.