Dave’s Palisades

Went here to get gas — it was $ 1.05 more per gallon than the station across the street. Ridiculous! I feel like they owe me $ 15.

I don’t understand the negative reviews, my experience has been nothing but positive and I recommend this shop to everyone.
A friend of mine recommended the shop to me, as her experience has been nothing but positive. A mechanic at Dave’s assisted her in buying a used car (a difficult experience to say the least) and when I was about to embark on the same task, she recommended them.
They accommodated everything we asked. We had multiple cars in that shop and every time they gave us an honesty opinion as to whether we should buy the car. We were shown exactly what issues they were with each vehicle and we were provided with reasonable estimates, and finally with recommendations as to whether to purchase the car.
I will never take my car anywhere else. It’s an honest shop and one that provides phenomenal customer service and repairs.

Whenever I’m in Lake Oswego I stop here to fill up my gas tank because I find they have the best price in town and they are always so darn nice.
For example: today as I was filling up, the nice fellow cleaned my windshield and offered to check my oil. It had been a while since I had my oil checked so I was very happy to take him up on his offer.
Today must have been my lucky day because as it turns out, my oil was dangerously low. The fine gentlemen at Dave’s added 2 quarts of oil for me and sent me on my way.
Thank you kind sirs for going above and beyond for me today. Your hard work is greatly appreciated.
2015 — Review # 1

These guys totally changed my perception of them by taking genuine concern with my review and fixing the issues with our car for free under warranty. Much appreciated and my opinion of them is that they do solid work and are good guys.

EXCELLENT!
I went here on the recommendation of a friend whose parents have been going to Dave’s for 16 years. All around good service from the first phone call about my car that had coasted to a stop and needed to be towed in.
I was worried about the shop being in Lake Oswego and repair charges being expensive, but they were entirely fair.
Some brilliant mechanic found a short, chased it down and now I’ve got my car back after 24 hours. On the first day, they even gave me a ride home after I fell asleep on the couch in the lobby.
OH! Curry in a Hurry is across the street! Great place to go eat while waiting on car repairs.

They were honest, trustworthy, fast and provided ms with excellent customer service. I plan using them for all my car maintenance needs.

I had my car repaired in Dave’s Palisades in Sept 11, 2013. It was engine light on indicating Catalytic Converter needed to be replaced. This has happened before, so I told them to check the exhaust system carefully, to see if it was the CAT or something else. At first, Dave quoted me $ 400 for replacing the CAT, about $ 250 replacing the 2 tires. I thought the quotes were reasonable, so I also asked him to go ahead to replace the air filters but did not ask for the quote for that part. The first day when my car was there, they told me they checked the car, it was not the CAT, it was a vault connecting to the CAT which costs only $ 10 for the part. All together fixing the exhaust system was less than $ 200. So I thought «great». Next day, when I went to pick up my car, Dave handed a bill of nearly $ 1600. The CAT cost nearly $ 800, the Vault cost nearly $ 300, AND, there was an diagnostic fee of about $ 170. I asked why he charged me so much for the CAT since he quoted only $ 400 early. He said he replaced a California CAT. But, he did not tell me he was going to do that, also did not let me know the estimate of $ 800! No warning at all for the diagnostic fee either! The quote for fixing the vault was way off too! I said this is a lot of money, he said, «We this time actually fixed your problem. The previous people did not. Your car is going to run for a long time.» Well, I trusted him, so paid and left. Only after couple weeks, my husband noticed the car could not up to speed going up hill couple times. I seldom drive the car, did not notice it. About 4 weeks later, the car could not run over 25 m/​h uphill. Since we just moved, and we thought it was the transmission problem, I waited until Oct 23^rd to have the car checked in a transmission place. But it turned out to be the Catalytic Converter. So I went back to Dave, they said it was the rear CAT this time, need $ 500 to fix me. I requested them to fix at no cost because of their promise my car «was going to run for a long time», and they claimed they fixed the exhaust system, and overcharged last time. They said no. I certainly do not recommend this place to anyone. Dishonest, bad quality service.