Texas Auto Service

I have used this garage to work on all my vehicles. Each time I have had no issues what so ever. I have a feeling the others and their reviews had more underlying issues with their cars/​trucks. Mechanics use a standard book to price their jobs so the cost is the cost.
The alternative to good service is to find a shade tree mechanic off Craig’s List… Good luck with that.

If you want good service at a fair price, don’t take your car to this establishment.
I dropped the car off and the guy called me later with a quote of $ 999 for a tune up and two minor repairs on our 6 year old GM car .
I thought it was a bit high, but figured I should trust him because the labor or the parts must justify the cost. The car was at the shop for a total of 3 hours and 10 minutes and my wife picked the car up. Later, I arrived home to review the bill and noticed they charged $ 525 for labor !!!
We were also charged $ 95 for the 6 spark plugs that are available at retail for $ 4.95 each in every auto parts store.
I didn’t complain, but learned my lesson to not trust them and will never return.

My husband & his family swore by this place, so it was the obvious place to go when his car broke down in 2008. Yes, I said 2008. It was his transmission… it was out. So we paid about $ 2,000 to get his car fixed and he was so excited when we got it out. When we got it out, the radio was completely screwed (not sure how they managed that), and he drove it for about a week when it started breaking down at random. While it was in the shop, it had developed another problem. My husband was 99% sure it was the fuel pump… a fairly cheap repair. We took it in, and they said it wasn’t the fuel pump, it was something else… they ‘tested’ it for months. We trusted them, so we had it repaired and paid another $ 500 or so. We got the car out and this time my husband drove it around for about 2 hours before it broke down. We took it back again. They spent a few more months ‘testing’ it, and paid a couple hundred more dollars to get whatever was wrong with it this time fixed. (They still insisted it wasn’t the fuel pump.) Over a year after we took it in, they decided to check out the fuel pump. Guess what?! It needed to be replaced. They said they would comp the labor for all of the other work we’d paid for, but it would still cost another $ 2,000… FOR A FUEL PUMP?! THE PART IS SIXTY NINE FREAKING DOLLARS! We got the car back and are getting it fixed elsewhere. These guys are not trustworthy, honest repairmen.

*Full Disclosure* I am friends with the owner, and I went to college with his wife *
I have had my drivers license since 1991, 17 years, and over the past 17 years I have had a horrible habit of trading in my cars on something new because I was scared of not having a warranty. One 1989 Cutlass Supreme and Four Saturns (1993 SC2, 1996 SL2, 2000 SL2 and 2003 VUE) later. I am for the first time in my life paying off a car (hurry up June 20^th) with no plans for trading it in when the warranty runs out in 6500 miles.
I have every other Friday off, and since this repair shop is an hour trek from my home, I waited until my first Friday off in May to drive my car over to Texas Auto Service. My goal was to find out everything that was wrong with my car and what needed to be done to keep it moving for a few more years.
Clinton and his team gave my car the full body treatment. Unfortunately, they came back with about $ 2000 worth of work that needs to be done. But, what they did do was tell me the priority and my time frames for each repair. They also told me what I should be able to get done before my warranty runs out, and how to get them to do another repair «while they are doing the warranty work.»
I had taken my car to the Saturn dealership in Waco just 4 months ago and they told me there was absolutely nothing wrong with my car. Thanks to Texas Auto Service for giving me a heads up that I needed to replace the timing belt, water pump and tensioners before I hit 100,000 miles. They were honest with me, if the timing belt happens to break while I am driving… it will ruin the engine and I would end up having to buy a new car. Saturn would have just let me wait until I was stranded on the freeway one day and then say… well you can buy a new car… with a worthless vehicle with no trade-​in value.
I was told I needed to have my brakes fixed as soon as possible, that I was almost down to the squeelers. I returned 14 days later and they had my brakes fixed in under two hours. They were dead on about my time frame for my brakes as they just started squeeling two days before I had them fixed.
Now I know that I have to start saving money to have the warranty work, leaky valve gasket covers (and the spark plugs while they are at it) done at Saturn by July and to have the timing belt, etc. done before the odometer does the big flip.
I can’t explain how having a mechanic that I can trust is helping me thru my first walk thru the trecherous terrain of having a car without a warranty.