German Auto Care

After buying my wife her dream car, the Audi A4 Cabriolet, I went to the dealer ONCE for maintenance. After that I started a diligent search for a reputable German car mechanic that did solid work and charged fair prices. Peter, at German Auto Care, is that mechanic and more!!! He went above and beyond our expectations while replacing the brake pads and rotors coming in well under the original estimate! I highly recommend his skills to anyone needing work done on a German car. We were so impressed we brought him our other German car as well!

When my go-​to independent garage, VW City, closed abruptly and unexpectedly, I was fortunate enough to get a call from my favorite mechanic, Josh, who told me he was moving to nearby German Auto Care on South Marietta Parkway. Josh started at German Auto Care in fall/​winter 2014.
Compared to VW City, German Auto Care is a lot nicer. The garage is bigger (more lifts, more space) and cleaner. German Auto Care is celebrating its 30^th anniversary in 2015. The owner is Peter and the shop’s assistant is Jacques. Along with Volkswagen, the shop also works on Audi, BMW, Mercedes, and Porsche brand vehicles.
I have trusted Josh to take care of my car for several years now and he has done nothing but a phenomenal job at a fraction of the dealer price. At German Auto Care, Josh has helped me with everything from simple oil changes to diagnosing leaks to major preventative maintenance such as timing belt and water pump replacement. Josh’s hourly rate is $ 90 per hour. However, a lot of work is priced by the job instead of by the hour.
My car requires 4 quarts of synthetic oil. An oil change (parts + labor) costs about $ 90. I had my timing belt, water pump, and other associated parts replaced (a major job) for only $ 450 in labor, which is very low compared to other shops. Parts for the timing belt/​water pump job cost upwards of roughly $ 300. Josh only buys high quality parts and does a thorough job. For example, he replaced my old water pump that had a plastic impeller with a new water pump that had a metal impeller.
My car has almost 15 years and 200,000 miles on it. Josh has helped me keep it in tip-​top shape, especially in the car’s latter years when more parts have worn out and/​or broken. He’s successfully diagnosed and repaired both oil and coolant leaks and kept me driving on the road safe. He’s honest, dependable, and easy to talk to. He’s great at answering questions. I like to ask him questions because he goes into great educational detail. Josh has also been accommodating and has fit me in to his busy schedule when I’ve needed work done on my car sooner rather than later.
The shop’s hand-​written work orders are detailed and handy for record keeping.
For preventative maintenance and repairs on my car, I would not go anywhere else unless Josh leaves.

German Auto Care on S. Marietta Pkwy
I started going to see Peter when I first moved to Atlanta. He has helped me maintain a host of great german cars. Let’s see we have had a 1963 Porsche 356, 1968 Porsche 912, 1981 Porsche 911SC, 1989 Ferrari Mondial T, 1991 Mercedes SL300, 2001 VW Jetta, 2002 Porsche Boxster, 2006 Porsche Cayenne S and a 2011 Audi Q7. Peter has done everything from the normal maintenance of oil, tires and brakes to rebuilding the boxster after a nasty crash on I285. His specialties are Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Audi, and VW.