Cambray’s Automotive Services

Took my car back in to get re inspected. It failed the first time and I put about 850 $ into the car

Definitely DO NOT have any work done on your car here. I recently had my car inspected there. I received a call about three hours after dropping off the car. «Everything checks out on your car, you just need new windshield wiper blades.» I told them to go ahead and replace them so that my car would pass inspection. When I went in to pick up the car, they had charged me $ 80 to put windshield wipers blades on my car ($ 40 for the blades, $ 40 for labor.) This was complete extortion in my opinion. I paid it begrudgingly and was on my way.
Long story short, don’t take your car here if you value money at all. If you’re Donald Trump level rich and couldn’t spend all of your money if you tried than this is the place for you. I’d hate to see what they would have charged me if I had actually had my car repaired here.

All Their Work Redone: I bought my car used, private sale and it had a few things worked on right before I bought the car by Cambray’s. Namely, the alternator, fuel pump, and a section of the exhaust were replaced. Everything that they worked on had gone bad and had to be fixed or replaced within a month of the work they did. I can say it was not the guy I bought it from because of the fact when I told him about all the problems that were happening, he was really nice offered to help pay for any repairs that needed to be done due to Cambrarys failures, even though there is no law or anything saying he needed to do that, he felt bad that he sold me a car with problems that he thought were fixed.
FIRST: The fuel pump, although it was not actually the fuel pump that went bad it was the work they did when installing it, then lying to be about what was causing the problem. I was getting a fuel evaporation error, from the car (meaning there was some sort of fuel leak in the gas system). Cambray’s tried to convince me that the leak was due to the gas tank being rusty around where the fuelpump is, and the whole tank had to be replaced. When they quoted me a price for just the part (the gas tank), it seemed very high, I called a dealership to see what they would sell it for, and the dealerships price was HALF of what Cambray’s was just for the part. When I told Cambray’s this they told me they could only use parts they sourced so it did not matter. Feeling like I was getting a bit of a run around I bring my car to a shop I know and trust, they tell me that it’s not rust that’s causing the issue, but when the fuel pump was installed, they had DRILLED HOLES INTO THE GAS TANK. So not only was Cambray’s trying to make me pay way more that I should for the part, it was for a part that THEY BROKE! (Subsequently I got this problem fixed at the shop I know and trust for much less than Cambray’s was quoting in the first place).
SECOND: The alternator, at the same time of the fuel pump issues, the «new» alternator failed (the car could not start or run). They told me that this never happens but the core was bad so the replaced it again, they did this for free so I can almost give them credit for something. But of course the second alternator was bad as well. This one ended up failing about 4 months after the second one was installed, I didn’t not even want to bother with Cambray’s again.
THIRD: A section of the exhaust was replaced due to rust, and a few months after I buy the car I start to hear the exhaust rattle, and like its leaking, thinking maybe another section when due to rust I take a look under the car. No it was the section they replaced, they had not put a gasket in-​between the different parts so the exhaust started to come apart, easy fix to do myself. But it is extremely infuriating that I had to.
SUMMARY: Everything they touched had to be replaced or fixed soon after they did the work, as well as them marking up parts, and trying to pawn off the problems they created back onto me. Cambray’s should not be trusted, if it was just one of these things that went bad, fine… mistakes happen, but everything they did had to be redone by people who actually know how to work on cars. This is beyond unacceptable, I have no idea how they are in business.