Global Auto Tech

When you first get there the staff is very friendly, very interested in helping you out with your car needs, but once they take your car in, prepare yourself for a ride to the bank. I went in for a simple inspection, 10 Min’s into it the owner comes to me with a list of things that need to be repaired. he says «you can pass inspection now, but I would get this checked out within the next month. we can do it here for about 3 – 400 $» I said, sure sure, and went on my way. A few weeks later when I took the car to my regular mechanic I brought up the list of things the owner of the shop had suggested, my mechanic told me «you don’t need any of these things now, your cars fine.» That was the last time I went there.
Now I was lucky but unfortunately my brother was not. He goes in to get a simple break replacement done, he had brought in his own breaks, that was a charge of about $ 40, not bad. He left without a problem, less than a week goes by and his car all of the sudden just stops in the middle of the road, he takes it back to the same mechanic, because its just too coincidental that less than a week after he gets his breaks changed all of the sudden his car just stops out of nowhere. (2005 Mustang GT with less than 65 000 miles on it, regularly maintained, with no previous problems what so ever.) Now they’re telling him that the master cylinder has to be replaced, along with a caliper, and that its all going to cost him anywhere from 350 – 400 $ (300 $ must be their magic number or something.) We said fine do the work, but we will never be returning for anything!
They are scamers, and try to rob people by offering them services they know the customer doesn’t need. Its unethical and they do it because they think the customer doesn’t know better. Not they way you should run a business, you should be honest with the customers and the customers will continue to come back, but by trying to get a few hundred extra out of a customer during their first visit?! I guess to them its better to make some quick cash now and lose out on a long time customer.
I advise people STAY AWAY! If you must do business there always get a second opinion, because chances are half of what they are telling you, you wont be needing.