If you read my first review you may have noticed I was headed back to this Hell they call The Tamarack Unocal 76 for a belt replacement. Well - I did. Why? Well, because...I don't know...I'm a total dumb-ass. Ohh and gullible ta boot! After such an AWFUL first impression the mechanic PROMISED I'd not experience the same fate twice. He'd handle my shit like a epic GREASE MONKEY NINJA FROM THE LAND OF EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE. I was sold!!!! Yes siree bob I promised I'd be back "bright and early" and thanked him for the heads up! After getting the estimate, and buying some magic beans from this mysterious person I met in the parking lot, I was on my way!....I mean Geeeez he said something like... "When this belt thing goes, it's just done." Now in hindsight...that seems kinda obvious. When something is "done" it's done! End of F'N story. Well...it certainly built the urgency of me forking over MORE CASH to have Mr. RAV4 all happy again :O) so I also agreed to a few other items and left. MONDAY MORNING I called and scheduled a time to bring the car in and it was eerily within minutes of the same time I dropped the car off last Saturday. Good Ol' store clerk/gas attendant/propane guy/smog technician was there. LOL...he even said something like...I remember your face.... UMMMMMMMM ASSHOLE I WAS HERE FOR 3 PLUS HOURS ON SATURDAY REMEMBER???? Mr. Spit was there....he pulled the RAV4 in for the belt replacement. Wow...this is all happening way too fast... I turn to review with the mechanic what's going to be done to the car but he jumps on the phone. For ever! So, I just stood there and waited....and waited....and waited. Finally he got off the phone and we began to negotiate again...now we're replacing wipers. He jumps on the phone again.... ARE YOU F**************ING KIDDING ME DUDE?!? So, Mr. Spit and I (even he feels kinda awkward now) just stand there and wait...and wait.......waiting....still waiting..... He gets off the phone and tells me he called all his distributors and the price of the wipers is 14 bucks. OK...in hopes to save time I said no more phones! For this particular visit Mr. Mechanic let's focus on the belt and call it a day :O) So my car is on the lift. Meanwhile same crazy inefficient story here @ the 76. Lines are building because the clerk is preforming smog - everyone seems rushed to the point of paralysis. I've seen this BS before so I told him I'm off to breakfast (thank you Village Pie Shop for being so close to this dump) and away I went to leave the stress and comedy of the station behind me. 35 minutes or so later I leave to get my car. As I cross the street I see my RAV is still on the lift - my heart sank. I get up there and the mechanic begins to review what he has preformed...belt was replaced. He did not do something (some torque adjustment) because my car was wrong year - he was mistaken....what? I asked him "Have you rotated the car's tires?" No. He explains why he DID NOT do it....I asked to see the belt he replaced...I'm beginning to DOUBT EVERYTHING HERE. He showed me the belt and began playing with it dramatically trying to show me it was worn. THIS BELT DID NOT NEED REPLACED. BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It looked totally fine. I was officially FIRE FUC HOT MAD. OK...ummm then he begins the bait and switch. Asks me to come over and "check this out." He wanted to UP-SELL me on some other "issues" he found. I told him to take my car down immediately...THIS RELATIONSHIP = OVER ASSHOLE. Mr. Spit parked my car...the clerk rings me up. The cherry on the visit, just like last time I pay as follows: 1. Take print-out of mechanic work to clerk 2. He takes print-out and enters the order # 3. Asks me how I'm paying and I pay...by card 4. He prints receipt (that has amount, MOP, date, time) you know...a receipt 5. Clerk writes in pen how I paid, the amount, something I couldn't read on print-out 6. Staples RECEIPT to PRINT-OUT 7. Hands both copies to me.... 8. Ummmm......what just happened here....why do you always write on the print-out if you're giving it to me w/receipt?? WTF is up with this place?? My car is unhappy - I'm taking it to Sears Auto center and for a LONG, LONG HOT car wash. This place gets 1 "I have some magical beans for sale anybody...real cheap" outta 10 read more

Tamarak Unocal 76 - Please somebody finish this smog!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Smog Check Stations Near Me - Carlsbad, California

I have a 1985 Mercedes SL and I'm glad that I found this place. I read good reviews about it in here and 30 minutes later my car passed smog like a young lady. ;) Thanks for the great service and I will refer him to everyone. Keep up the great job. read more

Tamarak Unocal 76 - Smog Check Stations Near Me - Carlsbad, California