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Mike Lingard Jr.
Mobile Mike's Auto Mechanic Service
0 star Review
Dishonest and dangerously faulty workmanship
Mike Lingard Jr of Mobile Mike's Auto Mechanic Service
7188 Hwy 26 Stayner Ontario
Quoted a price with new parts to replace power steering rack on a 2014 Dodge Caravan. The repair was done with a used rack.
The workmanship was unsafely faulty. A bolt was completely stripped and installed backwards in the steering shaft coupler causing grinding noises and the steering to be completely off. The van was returned to me with the steering wheel upside down. ( It was the correct when dropped off) When questioned, Mike was insistent that an alignment would take care of the problem. When told of the grinding noise coming from the front of van while driving it home Mike made excuses " The dust shield might have been touching the brake rotor I did have the ABS unplugged so I can get to the steering rack it might have triggered it on but it we'll go It just needs the dust cover push back a little further".
Mike told me that an alignment would solve the problem and it was part of an alignment to fix the upside down steering wheel. NOT!
I again told Mike " They will not do the alignment as they say the steering is not installed properly " to which Mike told me they were shady and to take it to his guy "Andy " at Canadian Tire in Collingwood. He assured me it was safe to drive. At this point I was in Barrie, so 55 kilometres to get to Collingwood. I was told once again by Canadian Tire and his guy that the alignment could not be done as the steering wheel was upside down.
I called Mike, he got very angry with me. He said he was " tired of telling me the same thing" he said he would do it himself on Saturday after previously telling me he did not have the machinery to do an alignment and returning it with the steering wheel upside down. He also told me it would take 15 minutes. On the drive back to Barrie the van made more horrible noises and I was actually scared.
At this point I decided to take it to Marshall Automotive, a well established Mechanic with a 4.6 rating on google. It cost me $447.29 to fix Mike's incompetence. I did not repair the clock spring/ signal switch that he broke. I drove 110 extra kilometres wasting my time and gas with faulty steering, on Mike's insistence.
When I called and texted Mike after the diagnosis I did not get any response.
This Hack put my life in danger giving me a vechile back with completely faulty steering. The bolt was not all the way through the steering shaft!
He also lied about the used parts saying they were new! Beware! read more
