Fixed my daughter's Subaru. No BS upselling just fixed the wheel bearings. I will definitely use…read morethem again. Thank you for being a professional.!

Andrew inspected and serviced my car of 14 years. He answered all of my questions and concerns…read morewhich saved me from making needless expenses. I recommend Bothel's Mechanical Repair due to the excellent service and reasonable prices. It is refreshing to speak with someone who is pleasant, patient and honest!

Randy & the crew at SMC Auto are honest, trustworthy and perfect gentleman! They diagnosed my car's…read moreissue, thoughtfully explained the problem to me over the phone before performing the work and executed the repairs with masterful skill in a timely fashion. I found their prices to be very reasonable and the customer service to be excellent. We brought my husband's car here first with no referral, we drive by SMC on Route 1 every day and we knew that a business that's been running for almost 40 years must be top-notch! So glad we took a chance on this place, we finally have a mechanic that we are confident in. Thank you Randy & team!

High integrity, excellent customer service, fair and professional. Absolutely above and beyond…read more I was up in Scarborough for a week-long vacation and my check engine light came on early in the week. Randy got me in within 48 hours, identified and fixed the issue within just a few hours. Unfortunately, the light came back on (no fault of SMC) the following day. I brought it back in and again, had a quick turnaround on getting it resolved. Randy called me off-hours to let me know it was all set, resolving all issues prior to me leaving Scarborough. He even followed up that Saturday (they're closed) to make sure all was good. I can't speak more highly of Randy and his staff. The price was reasonable as well. I can't recommend SMC more highly

I couldn't recommend these folks more. They're clearly just trying to help, educate, and…read moreaccommodate the people. I've been here a few times now and I'm always struck by how earnest, communicative and fair they are with their price of labor and their assessments. Love them. Amazing find.

I went in to have my ball bearings replaced and the owner also noticed I needed my brakes replaced…read moreas well. I had told him that I was going to do it myself, he said bring him the brakes and he'll include it in the replacement of the ball bearings since he had to remove the wheels anyways. No hassle, quick turnaround, honest, and highly recommend. The same service at Pape Subaru would have cost me triple what Cottage Road Service charged me. If you're plugging the address into Siri, it usually takes you over near Broadway Bowl, when in fact it's next to SMCC.

I am so pleased with how my car looks! They did a great job! Very reasonable price! Very friendly…read moreservice!

I cannot say enough good things! From my very first phone call the owner was the most friendly…read morebusiness owner I may have ever dealt with. Truly, treated me like family (the good kind;). I am kicking myself that I didn't have this done sooner. My 2005 vehicle looks brand new. I will be back again and again. An effusively friendly business is a rarity in Portland anymore and I will be going more often just because they made me smile! Impeccable work and beyond belief customer relations.

Wonderful service & great knowledge! Very happy with the job Paul did with my car's alignment.read more

Paul's Alignment Service is more than it claims to be. Yes, it is run by Paul. Yes, he does…read morealignments. Yes, it is a service. But what I didn't know going into things today was that Paul's Alignment Service doubles as stellar entertainment. Let me set the scene: Late morning. A bright day that is threatening rain. Just outside of Standish. A house in the wood. A brilliant specialist. I was dressed for success, hot off of a business meeting. I'd had this appointment for over a week and I needed it, too, the way The Duke was whallopping down the road like the wheels would fall off. I imagined I would pull up to a cement block shop, two bays and plenty of grease. I'd sit in the dingy waiting room and flip through some outdated magazines, the sound of pneumatic drills and metallic clanks just out of eyesight. Maybe I'd play around on my phone or call my Mom. This is the standard auto repair experience. Instead, I turned off the main drag (if you could call Rt. 112 a "main drag") onto a pretty residential street. Thinking I was lost, I dug out my phone for the address when I saw the unassuming black and white sign in a well-cared for lawn. A cedar-shake house sat back from the road. I hesitantly pulled down the freshly sealed driveway to a matching two-bay garage at the back. A little sign flapped in the breeze advertising the shop entrance. Inside, I found Paul, scuttling under a Camry, some kind of spider-like devices clinging to each wheel. He greeted me, called me by name, and immediately took to talking about the weather. The garage was neat and clean, one half storing some garage-like supplies and what appeared to be an amazing yellow dune buggy, obscured by a tarp. The other half had a singular lift, just tall enough for Paul to kneel under. Only a few minutes past my appointment time, he swapped out the Camry for The Duke and set to work, flitting about the car turning this, lifting that, moving this, a whirlwind of activity all the while chatting without a break. Paul and I laughed and talked on a wide variety of subjects such as gas mileage, the downside of all wheel drive, snow tires, ABS, driver's education (or lack thereof), estate management, hoarding, junkyards, the rising price of equipment costs, global warming, drag racing, the death of mom and pop stores, antiques, clothing, and funeral costs. Paul brought things right back around again when the hour was up and he had finished fixing my car to the subjects of gas mileage and the downside of all wheel drive like the expert conversationalist that he is. So I walked away from the experience with a smooth ride, an education, and an hour well-spent. I suppose it wouldn't do to start calling the place Paul's Alignment, Philosophy, and Stand-Up Comic Service but that's really what it is.

Wow, I am THRILLED! I tend to avoid cleaning the inside of my car because, well . . . boring,…read moretakes too long, etc. But it had been awhile (read: literal years) since I'd done anything at all to the inside of my trusty little 2009 Toyota Corolla, so it was just grimy and dusty and had dirt from the garden and leaves and whatnot. I decided to splurge on an interior detailing, and am very glad I chose Pristine. You make an appointment online (when I did so the next available was about a week and a half out, and they called to confirm and ask basic details, which I appreciated). Since I don't have pets and don't smoke, and there were no major stains, I was able to get by with Pristine's base rate for small cars ($175 at this writing; all prices on their website). I truly think this splurge was worth it--it looks *amazing*! Seats thoroughly vacuumed and cleaned, including underneath the two front seats (the guy found some things that had rolled under there from some long-ago shopping trip, LOL); carpets and floorboards now spotless; all the little console cracks and crevices spic and span. Included the trunk, too! Just FYI, the place is a little hard to see from the street--you have to pull off Forest Ave. and go between the buildings, down the long driveway to the "auto detailing" sign and their front door. Once you do you'll be greeted by the very nice young men who work there, and then leave your car with them for a few hours, and voila! There are various detailing places and I called around for estimates from a few, and I'm happy to have found this one. Highly recommend!

Don't waste your time and money here. I paid for the full package of an interior and exterior…read moredetail and I'm going to have to finish both myself. They didn't even try to properly wash - let alone detail - the exterior of the car, it seems they just took a hose to it and used my own windshield wipers to handle the windshield. The front especially is filthy with the tires covered in gravel still thst even has dirt sprayed up and onto the door. The interior of my car is quite dirty, literally sand on the seat, dirt stains to wipe off snd the windows either not finished or they had used a dirty rag because there are ugly streaks everywhere. I'm going to have to pay to have the exterior washed somewhere else and hand scrub the interior, I took half a dozen pictures of the intetior and emailed it back to them.

All of my interactions with their personnel were friendly and professional. My car was a total loss…read moreso I did not have any repairs made; the car became the property of the insurance company.

My front bumper needed total replacement which they took care of with professionalism & quality…read morerepair. Convenient extended hours too!

Walked in telling them I want full diagnostics and that I already have the codes (I got them from…read moreadvance auto parts). This guy just runs his own codes again, "looks under the hood to see how easy it would be to fix oxygen sensors" and that was his diagnostics. I had to even ask what diagnostics he did when he went to charge me for this. His codes were the exact same by the way. Just wants to start changing things without a deep dive - so you'll end up changing a bunch of items with them. Customer service was obviously terrible too. Don't go here

Never written a review in my life and I'm 99.9% sure I'll never write another…read more The entire process of dealing with ABC was horrendous. They seem like decent guys to joke around with (trying to be fair here). But what I experienced was anything but professional. It would take pages to document this past weeks experiences with ABC. It feels like it's been much longer than that. They wasted way a large amount of my time and money as a result of incompetence. Whether it was completely forgetting about my tow, or charging me for new parts that he GAVE back to me so that I could INSTALL THEM MYSELF because he didn't HAVE TIME, or telling me he'd be there at 4:30pm to check me out but he then leaves to go home early for the day, or telling me he didn't get around to the oil change I asked for because he didn't have time! (which is odd because he went home early!!!) OR MAYBE it was just the fact that the whole reason for the tow was because the fuel pump was going, and he didn't touch anything besides the brakes! Throughout this entire process, I made an in-person appointment, 2 weeks out. I then went back in 2 days prior to the tow to confirm (shouldn't even be necessary on my part). When i finally got ahold of them over an hour after my scheduled pick up time, they begrudgingly came to pick me up, and then proceeded to tell me that they aren't going to even work on it for a few days because they have certain customers that are a priority. WHY DID I WAIT 2 WEEKS FOR AN APPOINTMENT THEN??? None of it makes sense. Honestly, they truly seem like decent individuals. BUT this was the most unprofessional spot I've been to since moving to Maine. 2/10