WARNING! DO NOT TAKE YOUR CAR HERE FOR ANY REASON!!!
I can only think of two words to sum up my experience "Horror Story". I went in and requested 2 new tires and an alignment, I was the only one there so I was expecting about an hour. After 1 hour a mechanic came into the lobby with a spark plug with the electrode end that was covered in dirty oil. He approached me and showed me the spark plug and said the my cylinder was filled with oil. I was horrified that your employee was disassembling my car in an unrelated activity. Next he took me to my car and the whole top of the engine was taken apart. I was told there was no oil on my dipstick so he had to see where the oil was going however, I had the manager show me and the oil level was slightly below the mid point, I had just changed my oil less than two months ago with full synthetic and it was still clear where as the oil on the spark plug was extremely dark. After some discussion the mechanic got a camera and showed me inside the cylinder and there was no oil as he indicated but a small amount of carbon on the cylinder which is normal for a car with the mileage. At first he said it was my head gasket then after seeing inside the cylinder the story changed to I had a leaky valve cover. I told him to put it back together and perform the service I requested. Now this should be the end of the story but on the way home from work the next day my check engine light came on with not one but two engine coded, the car had been running fine before it was taken apart by your employee. So, if we were speaking at this point you may ask "So, are you a certified mechanic?" To which I say no but I have done almost all of the repair work on my cars for over 50 years and more importantly I am not a total idiot. So at this point I feel I need to get my story posted to as many auto forums and social media sights as possible to warn others. I am so flabbergasted that a mechanic would disassemble my engine with even speaking with me first to see how I wanted to handle it. It reminds me of the National Lampoon Vacation movie where Clark went to look at new cars and they crushed his car while the salesman was showing him what cares were available. However, that was a fictional comedy movie not real life. read more