AUTO EXPRESS SERVICE / Oceanside Mechanics

This is the worst shop ever. We took our car there on Friday morning for a coolant leak. They told us they would order the part and Monday fix it. We drove by the shop at around 5pm to go to the store and noticed our car parked on the outside of the gate after the shop was already closed. We thought strange and we pulled up closer to the car to find the driver window down with the keys in the middle compartment. We got in our car and drove it home. Thank God we were able to catch this. The bad thing is Monday morning we went back to the shop to get some parts they took off and they acted like they didn't know what happened to the car. They thought it was stolen but had never apologized or owned up for the mistake they did. They said they didn't even file a work order. To me it felt like it was a setup and they were trying to get the car stolen. Highly recommend NOT to do business here.

Got my truck diagnosed here. Gave them the keys got a drink and went and sat on the side of the building and could see my truck. They obviously didn’t know I was there. Because when I went to pay they told me they took 2 hours to diagnose it and wanted somewhere near $300. I looked the guy straight in the eyes and said “you know I was sitting over there and watched you drive the truck in? ” Dude turned pale white. Told him it was 25 minutes ago, I know because I took a screenshot of the time on my phone. Dude says oh my bad we will do the minimum diagnostic rate. I said “ Yea I thought so”. Moral of the story if you go here make sure you know when they pull your vehicle in. Only gave them 2 stars because they did figure out what was wrong.

This place gave me a misdiagnosis of my car. Quoted me at $300 to replace my “bad part”. Didn’t sound right to me so I went home and fixed it myself.the shifter cable wasn’t fully into the gear box to shift. That was all. I went back and asked for a partial refund since they gave me a faulty diagnosis. “Manager was unprofessional and said that I could’ve done something while I wasn’t there to scam them. Don’t bother with this place. Shady