Don Rite Auto Repair

helps me out with all my vehicles, he is fair priced and honest. Does my smog in a timely manner. Treats all his customers like friends. Wanted to take some time to write a review for an honest company.

This guy is horrible not friendly, and takes care of other stuff before in between your smog. I thought this was best place because it is right across DMV but man owner is not PRO CUSTOMER SERVICE what so ever, my vehicle failed first smog, and guy said it was 70 $ to tell me what is wrong. I went to 3 different mechanics after that all which have no relationship and they all reviewed my failed test and said it was catalyctic converter, at no charge. after taking care of my issue I go back to don rite and guy takes one full hour to smog the car and with in that time texting calling opening shop, I have been to other shops and in and out in 15 max. Thought it was convenient and return lost more time.

The DMV across the street directed me to Don Rite (directly across the street from the DMV) to have my smog test done.
After about five minutes, I was approached with a piece of paper showing a little box in the middle of it that stated that the connection had failed… he told me that the computer couldn’t read my car’s VIN No. information because there was some sort of disconnection somewhere. I was told that they could diagnose the problem, but that it would cost me $ 60.00 to do the diagnosis, and then another 2 – 3 hours of labor. YEAH RIGHT!!!
After leaving the DMV, I decided to go ahead and take the chance to drive my car over to my mechanic’s shop on Vermont and 228^th Street (Top Value Auto Repair). The loud noise ended up being my power steering belt, which needed replacing.
GUESS WHAT? Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!!! They were able to hook my car up to the smog equipment, and had no trouble at all getting it smogged. There was no disconnection at all. Me thinks I smell a rat who may like to take advantage of people who don’t have the time or don’t know any better. That piece of paper I was shown at Don Rite Automotive Repair may just be a piece of paper that they keep laying around to show people.
I will be turning this matter over to the Department of Automotive Repair and to the DMV. The Dept of Automotive Repair should contact other people who went to Don Rite’s to have their cars smogged to find out if they were also boondoggled.
Sorry Don Rite, your story just did not seem credible to me, and I’m glad that I went ahead and drove over to my mechanic’s shop to find that you weren’t telling the truth as I had suspected.
I would be interested in knowing if anyone else has had this «failure to connect» problem at Don Rite.