St Louis Hills Auto

Friendly, professional, fast, competent. What more could you want? Highly recommended.

Honest, fair prices, fast, this is by far the best place, very helpful. Fast oil change. They know car repair. No bait & switch.

Tom is great! He’s so helpful, friendly and very trustworthy. I will never take my cars anywhere else.

Honest, fast, They found the broken vacum canaster, with a smoke machine, blowing smoke up my truck, not my but, like others in the area did. they did the test & repair, for less than most wanted to charge to blow smoke test. At this place i know they wont try to put the smoker hose down the back of my pants. It’s nice to find a honest repair shop.

Great experience with St. Louis Hills Auto. Tom is such a nice and honest guy. You don’t have to worry about getting ripped off here. Very fair and honest. I won’t be going anywhere else now.

Finally found my new mechanic! Tom was wonderful and the service was great. My old truck might not seem like much to some people, but she means a lot to me even if I do not always show her the love she deserves But Tom and his crew were not judgemental they walked me through what I needed and DID NOT try and sell me on what I didn’t (huge pet peeve). I will definitely be bringing my truck back to st. Louis hills auto!

I got tired of paying inexperienced teenage boys at those in and out oil change places to work on my car. I wanted to find an great all around mechanic and St. Louis Hills is the best.
Tom is so nice, honest and professional. I’ve been taking my car here for a couple years now and I’ve never been disappointed.
They have many happy customers which means call ahead of time and make an appointment even for an oil change.
I’m proud to have quality small businesses like this in the neighborhood and I will always support them.

I was pretty sure that I needed brakes and I had been meaning to take my car in for service. I needed an oil change as well and the first place I thought to go to was Dobb’s. They agreed to take a look during my oil change. Well … 2 ½ hrs. later a mechanic tells me my oil is all changed (gee, thanks, and all it took was half my morning) for $ 29 BUT for $ 500 they will change out my brakes as well as rotors because they were pretty worn. I politely declined. I may be «just a girl» but that doesn’t equate to a fool. Seriously this is such gross overcharging that I immediately hopped on my Unilocal app and found a private owned & operated shop within close proximity where the mechanics wouldn’t rip me off. I called & got the owner Tom who was so incredibly nice I thought I was being Punk’d. He gave me a pretty up front estimate which was $ 200 less than Robb’s. Yeah, that’s how I will refer to Dobbs from now own. Because if you let them, they will ROB! Tom told me to come in but there was one ahead of me and for the job the wait would be pretty long but promised to have my car up by 10 & done by noon. I arrived a little after 8 and noticed that he was working with another car that was an older model car that had EVERYTHING wrong with it. Seriously, I wanted to call the owner myself and tell them to get rid of it. In addition to it being on its last leg, the owner tried to «fix» it herself and further jacked it up. I’m saying this to say that he took extra care & time so that he could get to the root of the problem and let the owner know. I kept thinking «I hope he’s getting paid for this diagnostic.» Most shops charge you just to tell you what’s wrong and THEN charge you to fix it. He took his time and finally got to mine… Late… Because of the little Black Death box he was working on before mine. Once my car was up he was great with communication, giving me a play by play of what was going on. He even showed me how worn the brake pads were and soon enough he was done. And even though my car wasn’t up by 10 he was still done by the promised time. Actually before the time! I noticed that he pitched in to help speed things along to ensure I wouldn’t be there longer. Once it was done he took it for a spin around the block to make sure all things were good and before noon I was rolling out. Tom runs a great shop and is extremely helpful and trustworthy and overall he doesn’t make you feel like an idiot or cheapskate for trying to hold on to a car that’s passed its prime (i.e. that Black Death box).

Tom is a great personable mechanic who was willing to go through my list of questions with me. Very knowledgeable and willing to take the time to explain everything. Great on pricing as well, very fair, most likely less than most. Will definitely make this my neighborhood mechanic, for maintenance and hopefully not too many emergencies.

I have left a review for another car repair place on this site that was negative. That’s what lead me to find st. Louis hills automotive. Let me say that they are AWESOME ! The owner is super knowledgeable and it’s the 1^st time IN MY LIFE that I didn’t think I was being taken advantage of at a car repair shop because I am a woman. He was very communicative and didn’t try to get me to have a bunch of repairs done that I didn’t need. I will always take my vehicles to this neighborhood gem. Thank you St. louis hills automotive! !!!

I can’t say enough great things about this shop! Tom and his mechanic Nathan were fantastic. They not only explained and showed me everything that they were doing to my 2001 Impala but also informed me of what needed to be done to pass inspection and the cheapest route to go about it. Even informed me that I could buy the parts myself and bring them in so that they would only have to charge me labor. I am a single mother and know very little about cars but they still explained everything to me in terms I could understand. I will never take my vehicles anywhere else!
I’ve always felt intimidated when going into dealerships or repair shops by myself as a young female and I’ve finally found a place where I feel confident they they will not over talk, over sell or intimidate me. So, I highly recommend St. Louis Hills Automotive to everyone but especially women.
I’ve also posted their business card to my FB for all of my friends and family, so they can know about a great mechanic, an honest business, and a professional friendly environment.

Before purchasing my 1995 Jeep I had it evaluated by a repair shop and they recommended several items that totaled over $ 1000. Wanting another opinion, I asked my friends and family for a recommendation with no luck. Finally, I grew impatient and decided to have St Louis Hills Auto give me a quote for service. After the evaluation my Jeep, Tom went over his recommendations and pricing. Tom gained my trust immediately after pointing out items that could wait (the same items that I was told needed to be fixed asap by the other repair shop) and his recommendation for repairs. St Louis Hills Auto Repair completed all my work the next day and saved me A LOT OF MONEY and time. I couldn’t be happier with my experience and I will be recommending Tom and St Louis Hills Auto Repair to everyone I know!
Thank you Tom!

I was referred to St. Louis Hills Automotive by a friend whose opinion I trusted. My car had been performing poorly and I was unsure what was causing it. I had done some routine checking but couldn’t figure out what it could be. I took my car to Tom on a Saturday to make an appointment. He offered to take a look at the car that day but I had other obligations so made an appointment for the following Monday. By mid-​day Tom called me to tell me my catalytic converter had gone bad. He quoted me a price that was well below what I knew mechanics charged for that type of repair. By 5:00 that evening my car was ready and performed perfectly. Tom and his crew were friendly, polite and very professional. I’m going to get my routine maintenance done there as well as anything else that may arise. I would readily refer them to anyone else.

I always use local mechanics. My grandpa was one in Milwaukee, and my uncle took over the shop from him. They have a lot more riding on the honesty of their word and the quality of their work than a dealership or chain shop ever will.
I moved to the area about a year ago, I have three vehicles I maintain, a Honda Accord, a VW Jetta, and an old F-​150. I do the minor maintenance, but bring them to St Louis Hills for the big stuff.
Tom is great. He’s honest and upfront with the work and cost. He treats you fairly and with respect and stands by his work and that of his employees. He’ll describe what’s wrong in understandable terms, or more detail if you want it, without talking down to you. I have no problem sending my wife there to get her car looked at or worked on, as I know he’s not going to try and sell her what she doesn’t need or pressure her into buying what she doesn’t want.
The only time I had an issue with service, they were apologetic, acknowledged they made a mistake and made up for it. That’s exactly what I want in a mechanic. I will continue to take our cars there, and suggest you do the same.

This is by far the nicest and most female friendly place I have ever been. From the polite person on the other end of the phone every time I call, to the explanation of what is wrong with the car to the details on why. I appreciate this place giving back some votes for humanity.
Also my fiancé had a flat tire one day and he stopped what he was doing to pull his car in and fix it with a used tire to save money!
What a great guy! What a great place!
PS– You should drive out of your way for this place, it is worth it.

St. Louis Hills Auto has been great. I only take my car there. Reasonable price, trustworthy, and great service. Tom and Kathy are great!!!

Tom and his staff have been very honest, cost-​effective and truly care about their customers. I drive a ways to have such good service, but I don’t mind at all!

Excellent service. Will take my car back every time he explains everything in layman’s terms so anyone can understand.

I discovered an oil leak under my car on a Monday morning. I called a few places and this place quoted me a good price, was close, and could work on my car that day. So, I took my car there and had them look at it. They said that the leak was coming from somewhere in the timing belt case and that they would have to tear into it to find out exactly what the problem was. I left my car there overnight, and the next afternoon they called me back and said I needed a new oil pump and that it would cost me over $ 1000. I am a poor grad student and don’t have this kind of money. So, I did some research and discovered that oil pumps themselves rarely go out and that a much more common problem is for a 5 dollar gasket in the pump to wear out. I also found out that if the pump itself had been bad, I would have lost oil pressure and had my oil light on the dash come on rather than just having a leak. So, I called the mechanic back and told him all of this. He then said that he knew this, but that no where sold just the gasket because my car is old (96), and that he called everywhere to ask this and that the only option was to buy the whole pump. After he told me this, I looked up a diagram of the pump and got parts numbers for all the seals and gaskets in it. A two minute online search and an equally short couple of phone calls, and I discovered that every auto parts store in town has all of the seals and gaskets in stock in a variety of brands for, you guessed it, around 5 dollars apiece. So, I called the mechanic back and confronted him with this information and he kept changing his story. He told me that he now thought it was a crack in the housing of the pump and not the gaskets. I told him that if this were the case, I would have lost oil pressure. Then he said the only way he could warrantee his work was if I let him put on the new oil pump and that he didn’t know if he could tear into the old pump and put it back together right, and blah, blah, blah. At this point, I told him not to do anything else and that I would get the car the next morning. I was going to have it towed to another garage. He called me back later that night with yet another story about how he was going the extra mile and wanted to look at it one more time just to save me as much money as possible and it turns out that the gaskets I found will work and that the people he called looking for parts are all idiots because they gave him bad information. At this point, I was afraid of him leaving my car in a million pieces or of making him mad and having him sabotage something, so, I told him to go ahead and fix it. It ended up being around $ 400, and seems to be okay for now. I just hope it stays that way.
While this place seemingly did the right thing in the end, the bottom line is that they tried to put one over on me and got caught. I am sure this place has done this before and gotten away with it and I am sure that they will do it again. So, be advised, I would avoid this place for anything more than an inspection or an oil change. In fact, I plan to avoid it altogether because I don’t like the idea of giving my hard-​earned money to liars and swindlers.

Car finally fixed! Go see Tom for any car issues, inspections, etc. Tom took care of an issue that started with another shop. He was honest, reasonable and explained everything in detail. I’ll be bringing our cars here from now on.