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    SakeBomb Garage

    3.9 (28 reviews)
    Closed 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

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    Displaying the stock bolt in their in-house designed GRC top hats. Not long enough and didn't provide bolts until hassling them about it.

    I decided to not listed to the hate and give this shop a try because of their JDM background and the fact that they state they are the biggest Ohlins distributors in the state. I gave them a set of Ohlins for my GR Corolla to get revalued and get new springs dropped in. Chris the front desk guy first told me it would be about a week or two, which was understandable as it was about 2 weeks before thanksgiving when I dropped them off. I decided to call after two weeks, and Chris told me another two weeks as the valving lab was "backed up due to the holidays". Understandable. So I gave them another two weeks, again I had to call. This time I spoke to Heath who seems to be the only person there who actually cares about their job. He explained to me that the Ohlins R&T kit that I brought them had parts they had never seen before, however they sell a long stroke revalved Ohlins R&T kit for the GRC on their website. He went on to explain that they would need to build a custom dampening curve for my shocks specifically which could take up to another whole week of work. At this point I wanted my shocks back so I told him do what you can with the rears and put my fronts back together. He agreed and I waited a couple days before calling again. 2 days later I called to find out what they are doing. To my surprise Heath takes the phone and tells me that he personally did all the work on building me a dampening curve for my fronts and revalved them magically even with the parts that they didn't have and have never seen before. He told me come tomorrow to pick them up. Finally I'm at the shop to pick up my revalved shocks. They explained everything again in person and had two of their shop techs bring my boxes into my trunk. As I'm about to leave I decide to check what's in the boxes. Good thing I did because after removing everything in the boxes, I found that they didn't give me the stock Ohlins springs that I gave them, and furthermore I didn't notice at the time because my fronts were assembled but they didn't give me the factory top hat parts and washers either, which made it even more fun later on. After trying my best to prove to them I didn't "hide" the springs in my car, and having both techs and Chris come look in my car and boxes, they finally brought them out of the back and said "I swear we put them in your boxes". I was so pissed I just took them and drove off. Again without realizing I'm missing install parts and other factory parts that I gave them when dropping the shocks off. The next day I go to install these shocks. Front go in fine no problems. Then I get to the tears and notice I'm missing 4, yes FOUR spacers that I need in order to install the rear shocks. Not only that but they also failed to give me extended bolts needed to install their in house designed top hats. Left my car on jack stands because it was a weekend, and waited till Monday to call again. Asked specifically for Heath, and told him that I'm missing all the tool hat parts and others. I even admitted that I don't remember if I gave them those 4 spacers but if they have them or can order them I'd love to pay. Immediately he says he can't order them, in my head I'm thinking how can a shop advertising themselves as the largest Ohlins distributor not order spare parts or have them in stock. I told him to look around and give me a call back. Later that day he called me back and told me he found all my stock parts including bolts that were not included in the kit I purchased from them. Overall, this shop seems like it needs to get their stuff together. Keeping my parts from me, not providing hardware for their own proprietary top hat kit, and lying to customers. Heath seems like the only one there who actually cares but seems to keep up the lies of his coworkers. Do not go to this shop unless you want a massive headache

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    I don't usually leave reviews but I have to share my experience I had with Sakebomb Garage/ Miataspeed. It seems like other clients they had are also noticing the lack of quality service. I'm only sharing my experience, yours may vary. I brought my NB Miata here in May 2023 to get a turbo kit system installed and tuned. Their portfolio online and social media made me feel that I was in the right hands. I made an appointment a month in advance, on the day of the appointment, it was cancelled and moved 2 weeks later. They said they were short staffed and can't get cars done on time. I had no other choice but to agree, things happen. Dropped the car off, was told their "work" would be covered under warranty. Car would be done by the end of next week. They called on the day of expected pickup, and said it would be delayed for another week or two, short staffed etc etc. Car was ready for pickup. Spent $4,200 for labor and tune. (Tune was $1,300). WOOHOO turbo miata! The following week I took it to Thunderhill for a track day. I did an inspection to make sure I was good to go. Tune was a little wonky, cold and hot starts the car would completely stall, with or without AC running. MS3PRO ecu. Coolant tank was empty, and turbo water line burnt from contact with exhaust manifold. Easy fix, and besides.... WOOHOO TURBO MIATA!! One morning session was all it took for things to go wrong. Exhaust leak, loss of power. Turns out the turbo to manifold and downpipe bolt/studs came loose. Tightened them and it came loose again second session. Turbo and downpipe were basically hanging on at that time. From all the restarting due to car stalling from tune. The car started having electrical issues. Starter gave out, ground wire melted away, flickering lights. Had to limp it back home. Turbo Miata things I guess? Made an appointment to bring the car in the following week. Charged $600 for labor, install starter, new ground wire, and install Stage 8 hardware. No manifold bolts hardware installed, only downpipe, because it had to be completely disassembled to get to it. They said it would hold up. I asked why this wasn't covered under warranty or if the tune can be tweaked, they said "it's a common issue with turbo Miatas"... Either way.. Back on the road. WOOHOO turbo Miata! Over the course of a couple months and track days. Constant issues with hardware coming loose on the manifold. Tighten only for it to come loose again. Having to leave track days after 2 or less sessions, I was pretty much over the turbo miata thing. I decided to contact Sakebomb for what my options are from preventing the hardware coming loose. Locking hardware all around, kit will need to be disassembled. $1,000 for labor. Ouch. I looked at it as an investment at this point. Got the car, drove home. Took a look at the locking hardware, one of them was loose! I contacted them about the issue before heading down to SoCal for track events. I went over to the shop, the tech took a look and just shrugged his shoulders and said they can't do anything about it. Will have to schedule another appointment. "It's a common thing with turbo Miatas". Fast forward to now, again with constant loosening of the hardware, blown gaskets, crazy AFR fluctuations. I decided to contact them again. Took days for a response, phones don't answer. I messaged them through their text message system. I told them the issue, asked for them to make it right or provide a refund for the $1,000 spent. This is where things get juicy. They weren't too happy with the message. These are bits of their response. "This is a common problem with this kit and application" "We installed the parts you provided correct" "You can kindly take your business elsewhere at this point" "Probably should have bought a more quality kit" Ouch... this was how I was treated after spending almost $6,000 in labor at this establishment. My whole point of this review is to share my experience dealing with this shop. Lack of communication, compassion, and professionalism. This shop has a great reputation online and in the forums. However I think that was a thing of the past. There's no way that this kind of service is acceptable to the Mazda community in 2024. They are a busy shop, people still take their cars there. I just think it gets to a point where they're so busy, they don't care about providing excellent service to boost business. I hope the owner of this shop can realize their clients aren't satisfied with the service they provide. Hire more competent employees, so the workload and environment will be less stressful for them, which in turn would be better customer satisfaction.

    In SakeBomb We Trust (to keep all Rotaries on the Road)
    Eddo C.

    After purchasing my FD RX7 from the prior owner, first stop to baseline the car was to drop it off to Heath and the team at SakeBomb who are ROTARY SPECIALISTS (the few left in the greater Bay Area). They were very detailed about the configuration and willing to provide me with the options based on my customized goals of decent power maintaining reliability. More importantly, the honesty and integrity this shop has is worth every dollar. Given they were going deep in to the engine to fix a leak, they decreased the charge of labor since they were already in there. Bonus is they have a dyno and tuned the FD with PowerFC given all the reliability mods that were in place It's been 2 years and the car has been running smooth and more importantly reliably! The only shop I trust with my Mazdas - Sakebomb Garage and Miataspeed are part of the same outfit. They also specializing in getting your car prepped for the track, if and when, you are ready.

    Front lip install
    Bruce L.

    A monumental shout out to David and Christian and the remainder of the SakeBomb team. I found SakeBomb thanks to Yelp. I've been on the hunt for a reliable aftermarket shop. I have a few cars, but my recent pride and joy is my Miata. I messaged David via Yelp, and eventually got his number and set up a day to do an install on a front lip and a short ram intake. We were able to set up the appointment quickly. I met Christian at the shop and he was quick to take my car in and let me get to work. I was texting Christian and David all throughout the day and they kept me in the loop on what was what. The price for installation was absolutely unbeatable. I'm going to now do any additional installations through SakeBomb. Overall: great customer service, reliable and quick installation, and a tidy and well out together shop. I'm excited for the future of my new baby

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