South Bay Transmissions

Don’t take your car there they just going take your money and mess your car up more make sure you take it to someone that knows what there doing people

Best service, best prices, great turnaround. I have been going here for years. Juan is the best! Looks like a little mom and pop garage, they will not rip you off and are very honest. I’ve been dealing with cars my whole life and these guys get a stamp of approval.

Worst car repair experience ever. They will trick u and rip u off.
One day my car’s transmission collapsed and I had to tow it to the closest Transmission Repair shop, which was this one. I talked to the owner, and he told me to leave the car so they can give me an estimate of the repair. I asked him if they charge for leaving my car sitting in his shop, since I couldn’t take it anywhere. He said they don’t charge for that. A couple of days after, they called me and told me I needed to do a full transmission repair, which gave me an estimate of around 10,000±. I was shocked since I didn’t have that money and I didn’t have a current job (I am a college student). I constantly researched and asked my friend for help on how to get out of that nightmare, so my friend helped me find a mechanic who would give me the transmission for 500 and the labor for 200. However, when I told the South Bay Transmission owner, who had my car, if I can take my car to the other mechanic since I couldn’t afford to pay him 10,000±, he told me to pay him 300 for leaving my car sitting in his shop! The mechanic didn’t want me to take my car unless I paid him, so I asked him how much he would charge me if I bring the transmission to his shop for labor only. He charged me 350, which is 150 more of what the other mechanic offered me. I didn’t have any other option, so I brought him the part, they did the labor (they wasted half of the transmission fluids I purchased on Amazon to the ground), and after about a month, I had a transmission engine light on. I took my car to the mechanic that sold me the transmission, he checked it, and showed me that they damaged some connectors as well as cut an Output Speed Sensor cable from the transmission, which caused an electric problem, giving me engine light problems. Also, my car was leaking a lot of the transmission oil. This same mechanic checked it and he noticed one of the screws were not tightened enough, and another screw thread was damaged. I couldn’t go to their shop and complain for these problems since they didn’t include any repair warranty in the receipt they gave me. For the record, many other mechanics diagnosed the engine light and told me to do another Rebuild Transmission… I work part time, but still I can’t afford another rebuilt transmission, plus I couldn’t pass the smog check (and so I couldn’t get my registration renewal), and now I don’t have other option other than to drive my car carefully to college, avoiding cops.
Car repair can turn into a very dishonest business since there are so many mechanics with their own rules and deals, and South Bay Transmission proved to be one of the worst, so think twice before taking your car to this shop.

Once I had my brakes go out on me on the way home where I pass this place. I pulled in and they helped me right away, regardless of all their other work.
When you leave the car there they always offer to give you a ride home. If it’s on a weekday and you have to go to work, they offer to give you a ride to work! They even delivered my repaired car to me at my home once! They are very thorough and check out pretty much everything without charging you for it.
Their prices were extremely fair; Juan, the owner is particularly sweet and I dare say quite handsome. He can give me a ride anytime!