Oceanside Auto Repair and Smog

I recently made an appointment here for 8:00am on a Saturday to diagnose and fix a check engine light indication as well as smog my 2010 Ford e350. This place has good ratings so after looking throughout the local area I decided to give them a shot. I arrived promptly at my scheduled appointment time but was told that they would get to my vehicle when they could, and that they had 5 vehicles show up that morning so it might be a while. Made me wonder what the point of scheduling an appointment was if people can just show up unscheduled and get priority. But with it being my day off it didn’t bother me and I had a ride home so no big deal. Almost 5 hours later I got a call from them saying that they didn’t know how to lower the spare tire from under the back of my van in order to get to my evap canister, and that when I had converted it to a camper van I must have blocked an access panel to do so. After assuring them that I had not blocked any access panel they then tried telling me tha

Engine was making a squeaky noise. They changed the serpentine belt and tensioner that had a humming noise. Once installed they realized the alternator was making humming noise as well and they changed it. At the end of the day when the reparation finished and paid, we realized that the squeaky noise was still there, no changes. Took the car next business day and they had to change the water pump, at no cost for me, and the noise disappeared. They took responsibility on it, and made it the right way! Service: General repairs & maintenance

Great service good place to get your car repair they did great work on my 2017 black volkswagen Tiguan I will definitely bring my vehicle back to this shop again, with the problem I had the dealership couldn't fix the car taken the car here one day this shop fix my car and were cheaper than the dealership 100%.