They change their names A WHOLE LOT.
Town Center Automotive, TC Transmission, Tri County Transmission, Portland Import Transmission, Discount Auto Brokers, TIR Enterprises, Modern Motion Auto Sales. These are all the same place.
Want to know why? Because changing their name is one of the tricks they use to escape their bad reputation. If you have the same experience I did (many have) and if you try to research them, then you will find out that this repair shop is one of 12 shops that get the most consumer complaints in our three-state region.
So check the BBB, check the owners, and signers for the businesses. And CALL the State Attorney General's office- so that you can be sure to ask about each business name and all of the complaints that don't show up online after they age or the customer was too exasperated to continue complaining, so they are considered "resolved".
These crooks fake the system. And they write fake reviews for themselves.
I found out that a lot of people went through my exact same experience. I've received messages from others saying that they went through the same thing "word for word":
I paid thousands for a joke. After waiting FOREVER, Weedman declared the car was repaired, and then it failed. And in between these failures, he would hold my car hostage. For months!! Each time I called to ask if the repair was done, he would tell me an excuse that turned out to be a lie, then he would tell me to call back later, and when I did, I got more of the same, only *HE* would get mad at *ME* for calling to ask!
How mentally cracked do you have to be to get upset with the customer that asks for their own vehicle and for their paid-in-full repair, after all the weeks and months you've blown them off?
So after months of this I got my car back. Had it for just a few days before I found out that it was unsafe and not drivable, and it stranded me.
This happened TWICE. The looooong wait, the weird mad attitude from Weedman, and the failed (*cough*) "repair".
When I got the repair completed through a shop with high and consistent ratings, they told me that Weedman did the work BACKWARDS, then he "makeshifted" it- to get it to temporarily work. But they said that no matter how you slapdash it- the repair would always fail after a short amount of driving, and that Weedman's mistakes had RUINED THE PARTS.
So the parts had to be replaced. Again.
Just... really dig into your research on these clowns, okay? Repairs are expensive and you don't want to get hurt like this.
Do your homework, and you will find the same things that I found: If their reputation seems good on the surface, then dig a little deeper, and you'll find that that they are hiding their black ratings just as much as they hide their incompetence and damage. read more