Aloha Shell Service

Update: the guys working here are all nice guys. The issue was the manager who just went over the top on the tint thing. As a business, this was a bad move: as a new arrival this one incident eliminated all future business here: no gas, no garage services, and no more safety checks. Just overall a bad customer service move.
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Do not bring your vehicle here for a safety check. Find somewhere, anywhere else to go.
We had two cars we brought to the island and needed to get plates. DMV won’t give plates without safety check first, so we come here and get temp inspection cert. A little annoying they don’t take appointments and can’t inspect more than one car at a time, but otherwise all fine.
Get our plates and come back, and instead of just walking in and getting the sticker, we have to sign in and wait another 30 mins. Then they proceed to want to recheck our already passed vehicle, pulling out the «oh, you have tint and didn’t pay for the tint inspection before… now we need to reinspect.» All this despite the «passed» inspection I hold in my hand that the state already used to give me my plates.
Of course, then they find our tint is now too dark. It’s measuring illegal in every state the vehicle has ever been registered in, yet somehow non-​Hawaiian tint measuring devices must be 10% more sensitive than CA, TX, CO, VA, and AL – those states never found the tint to be as dark as it measures here.
But nevertheless: No tint removal, no safety sticker.
When I asked how it is that my relatively light tint fails and all these other folks drive around with obviously darker tint on their cars, the answer is «they just know somebody.»
Moral of the story: if you «know somebody» at Aloha Shell your safety inspection process is probably no big deal. Otherwise, find anyone else to give your business… that’s what we’ll do from here on out.

Nice people here. Just got gas but what a great smile everyone there had. It just seemed like they really liked being there. Love that!

I reviewed Aloha Shell back in July 2014 but am compelled to do it again. They are simply the BEST auto repair business on Maui. Curt, the manager, is smart and honest and will take the time to help you fix problems with your older vehicle. Thank you Curt and Aloha Shell for all you do for Maui !!!

The guys who do the recycling are great and work so hard! Plus you can never get ripped off because they do everything right in front of you. They also have so many people working at all the areas they service. Plus it’s a 24 hour service station with 24 hour recycle machines.

Good, honest mechanics.