Ray’s Auto Center

Ray’s Auto Center cares for people who care for their car. Here’s what I mean; I drive a well cared for twenty year old car. Wally, Steve and Gabe can see I take pride in keeping my machines running and looking well past the normal years.
Well running old machines are quite revealing of the owner who are usually value oriented. With experience I can plan ahead for repair. Recently I came in for a synthetic oil change and the price turned out to be identical to any of the quick lube changes stores.
Plus at my request Gabe pointed out some suspension components that will be needed soon. Because he works on a pit crew and repairs race cars, besides being the son of an excellent mechanic, Gabe knows suspensions. So his guidance is important to me before I choose what components to have him install. He knows to ask intelligent questions about the sensations I feel while driving. Then how to preserve the good feelings of control and remove the bad feeling and noises.
A wonderful oil and filter change plus undercarriage inspection and planning suspension tuning shocks and springs for the future. I can be mad about the price of driving and repairs. But I’m thrilled I found Ray’s to save me thousands of dollars a year driving the old car I love.
Honest Quality Workmanship and surprisingly reasonable prices.
Thank You, I wish there were more Ray’s

In the past I have spent over 2000 dollars with Rays on something non-​collision related on at the time was a low mileage car. Basically after having to pull the engine the hood was put back on crooked and months later there is a rainwater leak around my break pedal. They referred me to a glass shop to get My leak checked. Then after the leak specialist said it was originating somewhere else on the body I came back to Rays. Basically it ended with no one even wanting to look at the vehicle and the middle aged woman at the front desk raising her voice at me declaring that none of the work done (pulling an engine and replacing an oil pan) could have possibly caused an issue with a rainwater leak. Thanks for the crooked hood, the lighter wallet, and the rudeness.

I came to Ray’s originally because a tow truck driver told me that several of his customers had positive experiences there. I would trust them to work on any American made car I have. Prices are fair. Not great – fair. The people are personable, helpful, and a good sense of humor. They’re a bit of a Lakewood institution. If you have a Japanese vehicle, I would look elsewhere. Their choices in parts on my Honda weren’t the best. I would recommend Ray’s to my friends in the area. Don’t expect much from the waiting area, but they’re fun people to talk to.

Went to this place after failing an emissions, because at the emissions place they were not able to get any readings off of my vehicle, so a certified mechanic had to check it, so went to rays auto because it was the closest Ase certified place to me, had a really bad experience was told the mechanic Wally the issue he told me the cost 160 $ then left did not explain anything all I was told was that I had to wait 45min, after the waiting I was finally told they too were not able to get a reading, but I still had to pay the full amount for the test that could not be done, was told that it needed a thermostat and it would cost me 160 $ for them to replace it, so pissed off already I just said alright and left, the mechanics did not wipe their oil stained hand prints off my vehicle, did say anything just left, so as I was driving the hood popped opened because they did not shut the hood all the way, called the place back no apology did not care, So this place has really poor customer service and Wally will try and sucker people to paying more than they need too. A thermostat cost 12 $ and takes less than 10 min to replace .I would not recommend this place to anybody

I had some noise coming from under the hood, as well as the belts being extremely loud squealing sound.
I took it into Rays.
Steve and Wally did a great job with it, they looked around, looked for leaks, tightened the heat shield on my Catalytic Converter (that was what was making the noise under my hood). They also tightened my belts, and checked for leaks in my coolant system.
The best part of it was, they did not even charge me for the labor. How many places that you take your car for them to look at, they do not even charge you?
This is the local friendly service that everyone loves to have.