Euro Auto Service

Andre is the best car mechanic I have ever done business with! He is always honest and clear about any fixes that need to be done on my VW Passat TDI. I always feel that I can put my trust in the decisions being made to get my car back in good condition because Andre is so knowledgable about the craft. If you have a European made car, this is THE shop for you in NCSD.

I had taken my SLK230 to another European specialist in Escondido a while ago… for reasons I won’t go into here, I left feeling unimpressed and overcharged.
To resolve an intermittent but persistent stalling issue, based on a recommendation from a coworker who has a newer model SLK, I decided to give these guys a try. Andre has been nothing short of fantastic.
The problem only happened when the car was cold, and didn’t always show up, so he had to try the car several times a day over the course of a week to get the problem to recur so that he could track down the solution. By my own judgement, having tried to do the same troubleshooting myself, he spent a minimum of 4 hours troubleshooting, it might have been closer to 6 or 8. He was a bulldog though, and managed to identify the source of the stalling through a combination of persistence and expertise, and he nixed the problem without too much time under the hood. It was a combination of both a vacuum leak and a faulty sensor, the most difficult type of thing to nail down because of the double failure. I also had him address a couple of other known maintenance items on the car at the time.
Time to settle up, he charges me for an hour and a half. I’m floored, I’m insistent that he should charge me more because I was in constant contact and knew how much time he’d spent. He pleasantly and politely refused to charge me more over and over, and eventually I just paid the lower amount, I couldn’t convince him otherwise. He said this is how he keeps his customers loyal, and I’m a new believer.
I offered to buy him a case of beer, but apparently he doesn’t drink! I’m wondering if he’s truly German, and he’s obviously too nice to be a mechanic. :) I never in my life thought I’d have my car worked on and then feel that I was egregiously UNDER-​charged.

Found this place on a TDI forum and they are everything I hoped for; excellent service, honest advice and great prices. I drive from Coronado because I have not found a mechanic that even compares to Euro Auto Service!

Andre is an honest mechanic that treats your car right. I started taking my cars to this shop when I bought a MB station wagon. The wagon is long-​gone, but I keep taking my cars (all makes and models) to Euro Auto Service. Great people!