Clay’s Muffler and Brake

This place is also known as American Muffler & Brakes or Gilroy Muffler and Brakes is a complete joke of a business. They are crooks and will take your money, take forever to repair your car, request unecessary repairs to get more of your money, their welding is god awful and unprofessional along with their lack of communication. Shop constantly closed at odd times, no call backs — nothing! Several customers were also complaining while I was there about their car not finished after 2 – 3 weeks being there. A client was complaining about gas that was stolen from their tank with no explanation! Stay away from this shop. The guys there don’t care about fixing cars the right way.

If you have a blind friend, with an amputated arm and lazy eye, who is bored, and hasn’t gotten laid in a while„ with a welder, save yourself some money, and use him. You have a better chance of a quality exhaust job, then to have this schmuck touch your vehicle.
Seriously. No Joke. Unofficial retarded friends are better than the ass blowing hot air in your face.
«Eek! Methinks not.» is not enough of a description for this prick.

Worst place you could possibly take your car/​truck. Messed up my jeep so bad and now he says he can’t help me. Welding looks TERRIBLE you can see exactly every spot that he completely burned and melted. My muffler actually broke off from my vehicle while I was driving!!!

Hello I’m a car enthusiast. I used to take my car to Quality Mufflers but sadly he closed down. I try to keep everything local so I went to try American/​Clay’s Mufflers. First off I don’t think this guy knows what he’s doing. I take my car to him around 2pm to get a ‘Y’ pipe and Electric Cut-​Out installed he claims he’s done it before. My car had to stay over night he couldn’t finish it on time (I don’t even think he parked it inside the garage, it stayed in the back). I went the next day around noon and it was finally done but it looked like shit I said «fuck it, it will work for now». I drove around for awhile and the welds started to crack so I had exhaust leaks. A couple weeks later I was driving and the welds broke off, my whole exhaust was dragging it was making so much noise I pulled over and waited for it to cool down. I just reached in there and gave it three (3) hard pulls and it completely broke off. I got it all repaired at A-​1 Mufflers with great work and customer service.

Bad customer service. Waited an hour to talk to Clay about a quote and left before I could see him. The girl at the front desk was nice though and even gave me a bottle of water while waiting.

You may notice that this is the same review I wrote for American Muffler. 3 days after I wrote the review, I drove by the shop and the word «American» was painted over and «Clay’s Muffler and Brake» was painted on the windows. I just want to make sure that everyone knows that it is the same place with the same owner! The person that did the work listed below was Clay. AVOID, AVOID, AVOID!!!
This is by FAR the worst exhaust shop I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. I was hoping to find a good local exhaust shop to support but what I was left with was getting screwed. I went in to have a SMALL exhaust leak looked at. He said I needed to REMOVE my catalytic converters because they were making it run hot. He said he would replace the pipe where the catalytic converters were for 200.00 He also said it would give me more performance and better fuel economy so I agreed.
Little did I know this is ILLEGAL!
I picked it up and was HORRIFIED at the work done, the welds, the appearance. It is awful. EVERY weld leaks now (no exaggeration) and it looks like someone with zero experience got a hold of a welder under there. It also now sounds like a rice burner and is loud and rattly! I told him I want it to be quiet like stock! I wish I could post pictures that I took of it to show the poor quality. I assure you, you’d be shocked!
He refuses to give me a refund and said «I didn’t touch your Jeep.» That teaches me to pay with cash. Jeep gave me an estimate of over $ 2000 to fix it and it would have been covered under warranty if he hadn’t cut it all apart! We’ll be in court dealing with the havoc he played on my poor vehicle. Do yourself a favor and avoid this place like the plague! There are plenty other exhaust shops around that actually have a clue as to what they’re doing.
I’m disgusted.