Was paid for diagnostic reading and he never done the job or refunded my money! I wouldn't trust or recommend this guy!

For 4 days he communicated that he would pick up the car to replace the motor. Set an appt here on yelp for 10-12 today. I even texted him last night and again he confirmed. No show and not even man enough to pick up the phone. Typical scum bag! 1/1/2025 4:31 PM You sent your Auto engine repair project to Johnson's Automotive & Welding 1/1/2025, 11:29 PM Marvin J. Marvin J. Just seen your inquiry on the Mazda CX nine engine swap please give us a call 843-550-0034 to further discuss the details of the repair and or schedule your appointment for the vehicle to be picked up and brought to my shop to commence the engine swap as always thank you for your business and we appreciate you choosing Johnson's Automotive And Welding, LLC for your automotive needs. Have a great day. Here is my price estimate and availability: Price Estimate $850 flat rate Availability Fri, Jan 3, 6 AM - 8 AM Fri, Jan 3, 8 AM - 10 AM Fri, Jan 3, 10 AM - 12 PM Fri, Jan 3, 12 PM - 2 PM 1/2/2025, 3:36 AM Good morning and thank you. The price is good but I searched Laurinburg NC and I see you are pretty far away. We live in Marston NC. I guess give me a call 9109957487 I am up by 4 am every day. 1/2/2025, 5:20 AM Marvin J. Marvin J. Marvin J. confirmed appointment: Arrival Time 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Sat, Jan 4 No show/No call/had a better offer but already gave this guy my word he had the job. read more

Adding to Adams review, not to mention he's dented my hood & fender...driver door won't open correctly. Never in my 46 yrs have I seen someone so incompetent. And yes, if anyone wants to see proof, I have all the text, voice text, pictures of damage to vehicle. We had a 3yr warranty with engine that needed a pic of odometer reading sent in to validate the warranty, and asked him 3 times to send it to us...nope..he wouldn't even do that...so now we dont even know if our warranty is even gonna be valid... When we picked that car up yesterday (after having to pay him $150 to take it to his shop, we had to pay $240 to have it towed back to our house bc apparently he didnt know what he was doing. He is a liar & a thief. I cried my eyes out when I saw the damage he had done ro the car, after we spent over $3000.00 to have it repaired, and he didnt even do what he was apid to do. This isnt over tho...so i sugguest yoy stay away from this c head!! $350 deposit & $595 To further add to review, after my husband crawled underneath car, instead of heating the exhaust nuts and bolts, he proceeded to take a blow torch and cut the exhaust in 4 sections, INCLUDING where it bolts into the exhaust manifold, then he proceeded to weld the pieces back together; did not weld back into the position they needed to be welded back to fit properly, so he had to add an extension to where it bolts into the manifold & it isn't even close to being lined up straight; it's at least an ¹/²" inch off. And instead of trying to fill that gap with weld, he just left it. So needles to say, theres a ¹/²" open crack where he tried to weld it into the exhaust manifold. On top.of that there are holes where he welded the other three pieces together. The power wire to the starter is NOT tightened up, there's at least 6 other wires that are NOT connected. The low pressure ac line is rerouted to hwew its stocking up The fuel line js NOT correctly installed. The inside fender well is not installed. There was absolutely no reason for this deep fried turd to take the hood off which is also missing the shock that holds it up. There was absolutely no reason to take fenders off, because he really did a number on the fenders. What this turd did to me should be a criminal offense and rest assured the police and lawyers will be involved.. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF THIS LOWLIFE HAS DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS TO YOU, SO I CAN SHOW A PATTERN, HE HAD THE AUDACITY TO SEND ME A NASTY MESSAGE AFTER I TOLD HIM I WAS GOING TO REPORT THE CAR STOLEN. LIKE I SAID I HAVE PROOF OF EVERY WORD IM WRITTING IS TRUE.. I FEEL SO BAD FOR THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH THIS LOSER. ONE MORE THING HE USES YELP TO GET THE WORK AND SQUARE TO GET PAID, I HAVE NOTIFIED THEM BOTH.. read more

I'm giving everyone fair warning not to use this little man's service, he definitely has some mental or other issues (sniff sniff) just an observation. He has really damaged my hood,fender,door and lord only knows what other damage he did to the engine and transmission. He was supposed to do an engine swap a 2.4 4 cylinder engine. Told me a day to take out a day to put back in, he wanted to pick the car up early so the engine would be out when the other engine got here, other engine got here 2 weeks ago, haha. This scumbag, told me Atleast 5 times it was done I could pick it up at a certain time, first time I was running late didn't even call him until an hr after I was supposed to be there to pick ut up, he text back n said he had a problem I could pick up in morning, I would if drove out there for nothing. I was there the next morning, it wasn't ready, no phone call just let me drive 30 mins knowing it wasn't ready. 3 more times he told me it was ready that he would deliver it to my house, no show either time. Then he told me one more time it would be delivered on a Friday, no show, n I answer any text or calls until Sunday. I finally got mad enough to pay the piece of shit and hire a tow truck to pick it up, if this scumbag gets on here to defend his little weezle ass, I have all the texts to prove every bit of this, upon request since there are so many of them.. pS i only hit the 1 star rating because you have to, they need a negative 5 star up there. The website us a total fake, don't believe any off it he has no shop or staff, dude looks like a deep fried turd. read more