Gomez Auto Services

Brought my car in with an issue, was quoted $1100 as an estimate. That was more than I could pay immediately, so when I went to retrieve the car and decide what I would do, they backpedaled letting me know they guessed at some of the things, and it might have been less, which set off alarm bells. They charged me $117 for the estimate, which only bothered me because they didn't actually bother to diagnose the problem. So after I get the car home, my tow truck driver has a look at it, and without so much as pulling out a wrench realized that the problem was actually a $7 cap that was leaking. So not only did they charge me for a diagnosis they didn't fully do, what they did do was just wrong, and likely would have charged me $1100 for something that was easily less than $100. Only 2 possibilities, incompetence or scamminess. The thing they guessed at? I did need. I paid the tow truck driver $200 to do it all. Obviously his costs are lower, I don't begrudge them their prices, just the shadiness.