Shear Performance

A little more than a year ago, I met Justin Shears of Shear Performance while he was speaking with some of his other customers at a classic car event. I asked him to take a look at something on my car. He made some good suggestions, so I asked for his business card.
We spoke a couple other times at events, and then I scheduled to have work done to my 45 year old hot rod. I shared with Justin that my budget had limits and that safety and reliability were my (budgets) priority. We put a list together, identifying the important work and giving it a priority. The advantage of the list is that sometimes while working on the top priorities, it can be affordable to get some of the lower priorities. For example, Taking the seat out to fix the brake light wires under the carpet, can be a good time to upgrade to shoulder harnesses.
I have been to Shear Performance about five times in the last year as we continue to make improvements. There have been times when I lose focus and go towards more power!!! Justine reminds me that my budget goals are to continue to improve safety and reliability. I am likely older than Justin’s father. Yet he still knows how to tell me that I misunderstand something and help explain it to me. Sometime I need to think about it, yet I would rather be told «No, that’s not quite how that would work» than spend twice.
My 45 year old car is much safer today. It starts every time, runs well and yoo hoo it now even stops without leaving many bus lengths in front of you
I appreciate that Shear Performance has a good depth of knowledge and years of experience on older American Muscle cars and current parts manufacturers. Since I stumble with words, I appreciate a shop were the person I speak with is the person who will be turning the wrenches on my car.
I have given personal references to others to go to Shear Performance. They have come back to thank me for the reference.

I went to Justin for a better price on the major job and found a mechanic for life. All the costs and time given up front never changed as the work unfolded. He found couple of minor things while in there and took care of them at no cost. More importantly, the job was done right and I’ve had no issues with the car since. The guy knows his cars and also builds customs and races. For hustle free mechanic look no further, thank you.

Justin is incredible. Excellent work. Very thorough assessment and accurate estimates both on cost and timing. Excellent communication too. He did an excellent job on our classic car. We are taking our other classic to him also. Highly recommend him. Diligent, motivated, and trustworthy. So glad we found him.

Finding a good mechanic sucks. Because are there really any? Let me introduce you to Justin. I took my sisters car here *2002 rav4* with 110k miles that she plans on driving for another 500K. So it had some issues which we already knew about from prior quotes catalytic converter was in fact dead (not just the sensors), pads, etc basic stuff but combined is generally sticker shock. Sadly though we had to get it done.
Called my personal goto person who recommended Justin so figured why not. no Unilocal reviews? wait. do i want to take a chance? why not.
Once you walk in you will notice the place is VERY clean, almost too clean. I think he mainly does custom cars so I was worried that he wouldn’t do my sisters car. Figured It would take some convincing but it didn’t. He does specialize in race and classic cars but does everything as well. Apparently this kid is known in the «scene», lots of racers would pull up to say hi and it was interesting chatting with all of them.
Anyway on to the work. Justin didn’t know that we had 3 quotes already (one from a dealership just because. why not). In fact I didn’t even tell him everything that was wrong though we had it 100% confirmed at this point. He did his thing, looked at the car, asked some questions and spotted everything. When we got down to the price I requested factory only parts (per my sister) and was expecting something crazy expensive since at this point I’m convinced he mainly does high end cars but it was a lot cheaper than my other quotes.
Done! Had him fix the car and couldn’t be happier.
The thing you will notice about this guy is he might be too nice. I hope he doesn’t get jaded and turn into a crook like most (if not all?) of the other mechanics in OC. When you are there you will feel like it’s just your friend working on your car, for a «friend hookup» price.