H & A Auto

I came into the shop last second on my only day off. Jeff went out of his way to make sure I got the right Lexus parts that day, was out of the shop and on the road before I knew it. He is very kind and will be 100% honest with you because he cares about the work he does and how your car will perform.

H&A saved me $ 2000 over what the local Honda dealer recommended. They did a great job on our car repairing what actually NEEDED to be repaired. They specialize in Hondas and Acuras (hence the name H&A), but also work on Toyota and Lexus cars. Jeff was friendly and helpful. I will definitely bring my car back to them. Highly recommended!

My wife took our Element to the Honda dealership close by and they told her that we needed to get over $ 700 worth of repairs. Took it to Jeff and showed him their work order and said that there was only $ 248 worth of repairs needed. All the other stuff was just fluff that the Honda folks made up. My Element only gets worked on by H and A!

Thank God for an honest and excellent repair shop to have for my 1991 Honda Accord. I’ve been going here for 3 years now since my sister found them on Unilocal.I used to take my car to the dealer for everything, and those days are over now. A repair I needed a couple of years ago would have cost $ 103 more than it did at H & A if I’d had it done at the dealer. And like others have mentioned, the dealer told me I needed some expensive repairs and it wasn’t true. Jeff is the nicest guy and I now don’t stress when I need anything done on my car; knowing I get great service and fair prices from him. I highly recommend this repair shop to anyone who has an older Honda especially.

I highly recommend H&A Auto! I was having a intermittent squeak with my Toyota and was told by the Dealership it was the tensioner belt and was going to cost 475.00 to fix. I procrastinated because it was off and on but when it started to be everyday I knew it had to be fixed.
A friend of mine recommended Jeff and so my husband and I popped in that day and he and Kris looked at it right away. While we were taking with Jeff, Kris filled up my windshield washer fluid and cleaned off my battery connectors that were dirty. They replaced the belt that day with parts and labor only costing 107.00!
So happy to finally find and honest and reliable mechanic!!!
Thank you Jeff & Kris, we will be back!!!

These are the only mechanics in OC who I trust to work on my Honda. They are incredibly knowledgeable and very fair. I’ve actually been quoted a price, and ended up paying LESS than the quoted price because they found the parts cheaper. I’ve gone there multiple time with both of my Hondas and every time I’ve left happy with my service.

Great place! I’ve had quite a bit of work done on my 2001 Honda Accord over the years and used to go to another local mechanic and although he did great work and provided fair prices, he didn’t have a timely turnaround and I would have to wait a few days-​weeks to get my car back. This time around I decided to try a new place and I was recommended to H&A Auto by my brother-​in-​law.
Jeff went above and beyond to provide fast and quality service! My car needed the distributor and alternator replaced, Jeff quoted me a fair price and I went ahead and had him do the work. I was surprised at how fast the turnaround time was! Will definitely go here from now on!

I have previously gone to the dealer to have my car serviced… then recently, I took my 2006 Honda to H&A for routine servicing at the recommendation of my cousin. This was by far my least stressed-​out service visit – ever. The dealer shop had said that I needed to do a couple of (expensive) things that the guys said did not really need to be done now. I guess it is true that dealers want to over-​sell you, but not the care at H&A.
Jeff and Kris are very personable and they took great care of my car. Jeff has vast experience and expertise. both mechanical and technical, with Honda and Toyota cars. It is comforting to know that he has such a depth of knowledge when he works on my car.
The shop is clean and the waiting area is comfortable. I had put off my visit to H&A because it is a half hour away – I wish that I had not done that. I am now a customer of H&A, and happy for it.

A recent transplant from Northern California, I was on a quest to find a good and honest mechanic for my 2001 Acura MDX (which has always been maintained with the best service available). After three visits to H & A Auto over the last year, I am impressed and highly satisfied with the knowledge, service, and honest evaluation I received. Today Jeff provided a same day minor service on my car while I waited. I have found my Southern California mechanic!

My husband and I have been taking our cars here for about 10 years now. The «H & A» stands for Honda and Acura. The shop was owned by Gary, at first. It is now owned by Jeff. We’ve always had honest, reliable and competitively-​priced service, minor and major. If you want to avoid the overpriced service at the dealership and want reliable service and honest opinions, while supporting a small business owner, come check out H & A Auto!

Like another reviewer, I found this place because I was looking on Unilocal for something close by, and this was one of the few with consistently high reviews.
My car was making a very strange sound while I was driving it at highway speeds, so I took it in on a Saturday afternoon with short notice. I’m always a bit wary when I take my car to a new auto shop, but from the very first phone call Jeff and his staff were friendly and professional.
After spending several hours diagnosing the problem, he came to the conclusion that it wasn’t a mechanical issue and that the debris that had gotten caught under the hood was responsible for the strange sounds. He apologized for it taking so long, didn’t charge me, and sent me on my way. I even got a call several days later to check and make sure that my car was running fine, which it was.
This place specializes in the following: Honda, Acura, Toyota, and Lexus, so if you have one of those four vehicles you definitely want to bring it to Jeff and his team. Friendly, professional, and good at what they do. What more could you want?

I was reffered here for their acura specialties by a friend. Good, quick oil change & reasonably priced too. Nice people so far. I’ll go back.

I brought my Honda Fit EV to get some struts installed and Jeff did a great job and he’s fairly priced. He’s the new owner and we’re in good hands for sure! I’ll be coming back without a doubt and will continue to recommend his shop.

If you have an old Honda, this is the place. They’ve always been up front, very accommodating, and nothing they’ve ever fixed was comparatively expensive. One of the reasons to keep a car you love is because you found a mechanic that seems to love it just as much.

There is now a new owner named jeff very nice guy and he is remodeling the place and it is looking excellent sounds like he is getting things in order. Can’t wait to see what it’s like when it’s done. Everything at the shop is continued excellence there diagnostic abilities and there smarts with cars is great. Highly recommended if you have a honda or toyota.

New owner Jeff, original owner Gary, and their staff are very affable, competent and as honest as the day is long. We brought them our 5 year old Honda Odyssey, now 2 years off warranty, and not worked on by a mechanic since. Yet just a few months ago, the local Honda dealership had looked at it while performing work for a minor safety recall and had generated a laundry list of «recommended repairs» worth several hundreds of dollars. We chose to postpone at the time. So today, given H&A’s good reputation, we pretty much gave Jeff carte blanche to look over the car with a fine tooth comb and just tell us what needed to be done… after a good 40 – 45 minutes up on the hoist, the result was a whopping 30 $ for an oil change — which they told us could probably wait another few weeks — otherwise they told us the car was very clean and in overall excellent condition. They gave us a clear assessment of what we should expect down the line, no sugar coating, no exxageration. Now, if all car repair shops could abide by this same high level of ethical standards, the automotive world would simply be a better place! We will absolutely be back as Jeff continues to build his clientele and we will be referring all of our japanese minivan driving friends too!

I’ve been going to Gary for about 4 years now and he’s the only mechanic I trust. Not knowing anything about cars it’s awesome to know someone is not going to fix a bunch of things that aren’t broken. Gary is just straight to the point and does an amazing job. So go to him if you need anything done to your Honda or Acura.

So far, so good.
I had something leaking (yes, that’s the extent of my car knowledge) and they did a diagnosis, then called me, told me what it was, gave me a quote and then fixed my car.
Good service, nice work.
Today I called to see if they could do another diagnosis (was rear ended) and then said to come in tomorrow after we chatted for a little bit.
I’ve been going for a while now and they’ve always been reasonable (with pricing) straightforward and don’t try to up-​sell.

Every other place I go to costs at least twice as much. On top of that, other places try to pawn off extra crap, which racks up the cost to about 3x as much. H&A is honest and gets the job done. I’ll never go anywhere else again.

Believe the rumors… Gary is a stud.
He will look at your car and tell you what’s wrong with it for free. Who does a free diagnostics these days? And his prices can’t be beat. There was this sense of trust when I was there. And that says a lot — being a woman at a mechanic shop.
You’re in good hands here.