Eastern Auto Center

I have been a loyal customer since 2007. Don is an excellent mechanic and has a ton of experience. He can often diagnosis your cars issues before hooking it up to a computer. He is a fair and honest businessman who is always trying to save the customer a buck. I no longer work in East Boston but I still bring my cars to Don. A great mechanic is hard to find.

I have been back to Eastern Auto many times since my first review and Don always provides personable customer service and a good product at a very fair price. He almost always seems to squeeze me in last minute also. Go see Don, he’ll take care of you!

Pros: Good service at reasonable prices
Cons: Owner doesn’t speak very good english
I took my car to Eastern Auto Center on Tuesday with a rumbly exhaust system, check engine light, cracked windshield and in dire need of an oil change. Obviously it needed some work done.
I dropped it off at about 11:00 and they told me they would call as soon as they had a look at it. at 3:00 I finally get a call saying it’s a cracked pipe and the part is 430 or they can weld on a used one for 230 which I asked if it would solve the check engine light, he said he didn’t know and it would be 50 to check the code, which I thought a little much since you just plug a machine into the dashboard and it gives you error. Anyways he said he could keep it over night and have it fixed by the next afternoon. The next afternoon the car was done and he offered to have a friend come and replace the windshield which would require the car to spend another night there but be done before 11 the next day. I said fine but then waited until 3:00 on Thursday before they called me to report my shiny new windshield had been installed.
All in all they did good work at a fair price, I just wish they were a little bit more accurate with their time estimates. Also the owner/​manager doesn’t speak very good english so it’s very difficult to discern exactly what the problem is with your car. However, I will take my car back there in the future, I’ll just be sure to call ahead and schedule an appointment.