John’s Auto Electric

Took my car to john as water pump and thermostat went out, (these are parts that are driven by the timing belt) John just replaced the water pump and thermostat, failed to change the timing belts as (he should of known being a mechanic that any timing belt driven part when goes out you MUST replace the timing belt too with fresh new one) several days later, timing belt snapped, cause all major probs, took it to another mechanic for second opinion, to find out i need a new engine, at $ 3640 later, due to johns negligence tried to go back to him and tell him, he acted like he didn’t understand me with his foreign accent, acted like we had a communication breakdown, also my mechanic who replaced the engine noticed that several parts that john supposedly replaced were used parts, john charged me for new parts yet later discovered they were actually used dirty parts. I also referred a friend prior to that thinking that John was a good guy, well he noticed the same thing, john replaced a distributor with a used reconditioned one and charged my friend for a new one. Ive been going to john for years, and had no issues, up untill now, he seems to be getting «sloppy» with his work and trying to save a penny or two by avoiding and buying new parts. NEVER RECOMMEND HIM AGAIN! DONT USE HIM!
UPDATE: Just found out by the new mechanic after inspecting my car after John worked on it said that the Waterpump that John claimed he replaced (see above) with a new one was in fact a used one and it was spray painted to cover it up as the under chassis of the car has the paint on it where the Waterpump was spray painted. John charged me for new one and I got a used one. My type of car you can’t just buy a Waterpump on its own it comes with the full timing belt kit as a package. This is the reason why my belts weren’t changed and caused to break on me and caused serious damage to my Engine due to johns negligence by being cheap and charging me for new parts.

John has worked very hard to make things right for me. I wish he would take better care of the cars he works on is my only complaint.

My electric trailer hitch plug was not working on my Nissan truck properly. It was just the left turn signal would not work so I had John’s Electric repair it because of the good reviews. He decided to redo the whole trailer hitch plug assembly because he said it was bad which I thought was a little odd but heck he had good reviews on Unilocal and google. Well I put the Nissan truck back on my trailer about 3 months later assuming that everything was working properly and found out the trailer hitch plug did not work at all so I went back to him and showed him the receipt and he said bring the trailer with the truck. The trailer was a bran new 2013 with no electrical problems. John then still charges me a second time on the repair. On this second repair little did I realize to get the lights and signals to work he changed some of the trailer wires as well so it would on be operational on the my Nissan truck. The trailer had no problems with the other two vehicles I used before until John changed the wiring in the trailer. I decided to go to A1 RV body repair to fix the trailer wiring which they did and I will have them fix the Nissan truck this time. After $ 500 no results. I will never go back. I wanted to warn others.

My ’03 Explorer windows quit working. I called another auto electric repair shop and made an appt. When I arrived they had no record of my appt. nor a technician. I called John and he got me right in. He quickly diagnosed the issue and just over an hour later I was on the road. He charged me for one hour. Shop is in a low-​budget part of town and appears junky but John knows his stuff and is honest. I’d go here for any repair.