Holland’s Crest Auto Repair

After long ride from Bucks County Pa due to excessive traffic, noticed battery light on. Looked on Unilocal for auto repair in wildwood. Hollands popped up. I called, they were very nice and helpful on phone. Took car over Jack put a meter on it to check for charging. Confirmed it was not. Took back over next day. Completed job. Great job on Mazda6 alternator. Thanks guys!

In Wildwood for the week and much to our surprise we woke to a flat tire yesterday as we were gathering our stuff to head on the beach. We are 300 miles from home and not sure where to go and don’t really want to take a second mortgage on the house to get this fixed. We went to the front desk of our hotel and they recommended this shop to give us a hand. We called and explained the situation and the man on the phone said «can’t get new tires until Monday» and hung up. Uhhhhh thanks for nothing. I would of at least appreciated some help or direction on where to resolve this. I would avoid this place.

On our way down from NYC last night, I lost a tire to a fight with a pothole, which I needed to call the Garden State Parkway authority (at #GSP on my phone) to get a tow to come and pop on my spare (I could have done it, but my wife was afraid of me getting hit). Turned out the guy who did the work didn’t tighten the lug nuts enough on the rim, and I couldn’t drive the car over 40MPH without the entire car shaking.
Afraid I would be swindled by some local IDing me as a tourist, I was hesitant to find a shop. After reading the three other reviews for Holland’s, I called and explained that I needed a tire rotation, balancing and a wheel alignment. I figured leaving off the fact that my tire had blown and that the tow truck dude had to knock the rim off of my father-in-law’s car with a mallet (because of rust) wouldn’t leave me open to trickery.
After heading in, the guy was an extremely solid human being. He basically said «okay, wheel alignment, tire rotation and balancing… and… is that it?» (as in «c’mon dude, I heard your wheel scraping when you drove in»); I finally admitted what had happened, mentioning I found them on Unilocal.He said, no problem… it’ll take one to two hours, and he’ll give me a call.
My wife and I walked down and ate breakfast near the ocean, sat around for a bit on the beach, he called me once to ask if the car was shaking before or after I had gotten the tire changed, and I said «before.»
In about an hour and a half he called to say they were finished. We headed back, while I prepped for some shady «gonna need some new brake pads» or some other service I know I didn’t need. When we arrived, he said that he rotated and balanced the tires, but that he didn’t perform an alignment, since there was a pin issue on the front end (that it wasn’t critical to fix today, just pointless for us to pay him to do the alignment now, when they’ll do it when the issue gets fixed later). Also, he said one of the other tires was in pretty bad shape. His solution? Go buy a tire at another place.
This is very long, but is supposed to serve one purpose. This guy, and the place are great. They are honest, good workers, and I wanted to cover exactly how my interaction went in order to make those considering going to other shops in the area stop considering them and come here.

We have lived summers in Wildwood Crest since 1967. Jack and his family are both knowledgeable and careful mechanics who work on the full range of cars and trucks foreign and domestic. They also provide a wrecker service. We would go to no other mechanic in Cape May County.

Great service received, put my new rims on my M3 and hand torqued them and checked them later for free, many thanks!