AAMCO Transmissions & Total Car Care

A WARNING: Do not EVER take your vehicle here. Keep reading this whole review…
I’ll start by saying I am 3^rd owner on my vehicle. It was bought from the factory by a Ford Dealer for one of its salesmen (who was a family friend) to travel by highway to another dealership in another state. After 2 years of ownership he sold it to my Grandfather in certified pre-​owned, dealer kept condition.
He kept it until his eye sight was declining and he gave it to me on my birthday to help me and my struggling family during my dialysis and transplant.
Although these people at Aamco, Prospect Park are considered to me to be «Masonic Brothers», I have left this place every time feeling like I had been ripped off.
My vehicle had no leaks, and was running perfectly (this car was taken good care of all its life with receipts to prove it) when the transmission released on a side street near my house. I had it towed to their shop on a flatbed to have it fixed.
I had my transmission «replaced» being told that, quote «We DO NOT rebuild them, we replace them». paying $ 2,500.00 for a «NEW» transmission was out of my ability to pay, but they said they would work with me on payment to give me time without losing the use of the car.
I went to pick my car up and was told that «they did me a favor» and gave me a free oil change and a 3 year warranty on an added master cylinder to fix the brakes that worked fine other than a slightly loose resevoir.
I got the car back on a Friday (getting home and complaining to them that the car wasn’t starting properly as if the starter wasn’t shimmed, the brake light was coming on, and that it was holding back the power I expect and feel it trying to put out) I was told not to worry about it and to bring it back later.
I had a trip going to Elizabethtown, Pa from Philadelphia (2 hour drive) with my family.
Half way there the engine light goes on and the release finally came.
Having built several engines and race cars in the past, I pulled over and waited 15 minutes to check the oil.
Checking the oil proved double the oil in the motor (they changed the filter and threw more oil in it without draining the old oil) the pressure the added oil caused, blew the seal on the valve cover gasket and finally released the pressure the engine couldn’t hanle.
The oil drained from the new leak from then on.
The over load of oil soaked the plugs, keeping the car from running properly.
I called and asked about my power steering which was now leaking like a siv, asked them to fix it and mentioned the issues with the oil, trans, and brakes telling them that these problems were their fault and that I expected them fixed when they did the power steering.
I was told they fired the guy that «changed» my oil because he was terrible.
I took the car back to them and they replaced the spark plugs, coil pack, wires and the batttery, charging me for it and telling me that they did nothing wrong to make the car run terrible.
I was called and told that the car was done and they test drove it to Maryland to make sure it ran good???
Unbenounced to me, they had not touched the brakes or the power steering that was so important to me they said I could pick it up.
When I did the shop was closed, I had to add power steering fluid to it and as I left. the brake light came back on.
I also saw that the protective cover for the throddle body was missing and that the bolts on the transmission itself had never been touched.
The transmission was the same housing that the car was sent down to them with (I ran the VIN) and with the standard dirt from 150,000 miles on it says the transmission was NEVER replaced, only used as to charge me for more than I needed fixed.
If you like your car ruined, then this place is for you.
I’m forming a class action law suit for the same type of issues against Aamco/​Cottman Transmissions.
Maybe some day these guys will realize that people go in to find out how far a company will go to rip people off and to catch them in their lousy games.
At this place, you will only lose money.
Even if you feel like you got a good deal, YOU DIDN’T…
…and I am ABSOLUTELY sure of it…