I've taken vehicles to Scott three times with mixed results. I'm not sure that I would ever go back.
My first experience at Scott's was great. We had a bad blower motor in our Altima that I thought would be a bear to fix, but Scott knocked it out in a day and charged us a lot less than what I expected it would cost. I couldn't have been happier with that repair.
The second repair we had done at Scott's didn't go as well. I took my truck in to have the oil changed and the spark plugs/wires replaced. I got my previously clean truck back from the tech with leaves in the floorboard and one giant leaf sitting on the center console. I threw the leaf out the window as the tech watched me with an annoyed look on his face. Don't know if he had a bad day at work, but I did find that the oil was over a quart low the next day when I checked it.
Our third visit to Scott's really didn't go well at all. When I walked in the office to drop off the keys, Scott didn't even say hello or ask me what work I wanted done on the car. He took the keys as and turned away as I volunteered a list of what needed to be done. Then he took a sheet of paper from under the counter and placed it on the counter in front of me. He didn't speak, he just put the thing on the counter. I wrote it all out in detail and left it at that. I picked up the car two days later and immediately felt like they hadn't even touched the car. Sure enough, one of the major problems I wanted fixed (a front-end problem) was still plainly evident. I took it back to the shop immediately and the tech who worked on it wouldn't even entertain the notion that the problem wasn't fixed. When Scott finally rode with me to experience the problem, he treated the problem like it was a joke, like I should be happy with the car as it was and not complain about what he saw as a minor issue. So I left the car with them another three days, and when I picked it up, the issue was still there. I took it to another shop, got it fixed within three days, and haven't been back to Scott's since.
The bottom line is that Scott's can be a good shop. It's really hit or miss with them. Maybe Scott is having some growing pains with his business, or maybe the strain of running it has taken a toll on the work. Either way, I won't go back, solely because I will have my concerns taken seriously by whomever I contract to do work for me. The fact that Scott's has seemed not to care much at all is the main reason I won't give them any more of my business. read more