K & T Auto Repair Service

Avoid this place like the plaague. scam artist.
Went there for an oil change $ 50 for a non synthetic
He then Started saying I needed this and that replaced etc trying to make me waste more money. I denied his request .
He gave me a hard time about it but whatever. Customer service sucks. And I did not feel comfortable here. As if they are trying to trick me etc stay away

This auto repair place is the most Horrible PLACE I have been too!!!
Please be very careful when tacking your car to this horrible place because these guys replaced my radiator and had left THE CARDBOARD INSIDE!!! When I got the radiator replaced I took my mom to work in Carlsbad and when I came back to escondido my car was HOT!!! HOT!!! HOT!!! The meter was indicating that my car had been overheated!!! I took the car back to ANDY ALSO THE OWNER and his brother was there at the time. I explained to his brother what had happened and he said it was the thermostat. So I said ok go ahead and change it this is a Honda civic 2006, said to myself, time for new car part. So once again I left to Carlsbad and my car over heated once again on my way to escondido. The next day one more time I took it to Andy and ANDY THE OWNER had personally told me that he had checked the car and came to the conclusion I had a broken gas kit! He ANDY the owner now is charging me 900.00 to fix the supposably Brocken gas kit. When I took my car for a 2^nd opinion my friends down in their shop had told me it wasn’t my gas kit. When they uncovered the shield that was hiding the radiator, you can clearly see the cardboard box left in front of the radiator! So the air couldn’t cool down the motor! That’s what made my car overheat!!! Yea right I ain’t paying for nothing I’m gonna go fight to get my money back!!! My motor did get overheated so the wonderful people that now are tacking care of of my car will let me know if Andy messed my motor up and ANDY will pay me a new motor or he can explain that cardboard to the judge!!!

I first went in here to get a smog check via a coupon. While there, I had them do an oil change with yet another coupon. While waiting, one of the mechanics came in and told the owner/​manager Andy (in Vietnamese) that my oil plug was messed up. I didn’t understand a word he said, but when I later asked if there was a problem, he told me about the plug, but after he inspected it, told the mechanic it was still usable and a new one wasn’t necessary. Can you believe that?
One time Andy even loaned me his own car since he was having problems with the smog reset on my car (requiring a test only smog test). I really could go on and on.
Its since been years since I’ve been going to Andy’s place. He is always crowded, but always makes time to accommodate me when I just drop in without notice.
They are honest people.

Was referred to this place by my parents and all the rave reviews that they talk about with this place.
I was WRONG to come here with my car.
It took 3 weeks to get my car out. Andy the front desk man said he needed more time blah blah blah. When I went to go pick it up of course I did my own inspections. I popped the hood of my car and the first thing I saw was a rag in the engine bay (Cmon’ man! Common sense to clean up after yourself). Next thing I started the car up and noticed that the CEL (Check Engine Light) was on. I mentioned it to Andy and he brought the scanner over and all he did was CLEAR it on his device and didn’t even explain the error code.
I drove my car back home and timing was off and the CEL (Check Engine Light) came right back on.
UNFINISHED work that takes A VERY LONG TIME! Horrible mechanic work.
FYI: Stay away from K&T Auto Repair Service

We’ve been going here for years with our Mercury Cougar, Honda Accord and now our Toyota RAV4. Reasonable prices, allows us to bring in our own parts and just charges labor (and not the rip off amount that other service stations charge). Always helpful and explains everything to my husband… even going over options, not just trying to sell us on the most expensive service. NOTE: plan for a ride if they need your car for a few hours… nothing is around there and they have more of a shop style waiting area.