I have been taking each of my vehicles to John Doerr for over 20 years and talked my elderly father into taking his cute pick-up to John, instead of driving 20 miles to take it to a man he trusted. My father was happy with the work and the charges on the work John had done.
I bought my first used car, a Nissan Maxima, from a friend who owned a used car lot. When a problem developed with the a/c, he recommended John to me, saying that he took all his inventory that needed repairs to John. That John was honest, skilled, and prompt; and that he stayed away from the local auto dealer. John fixed the a/c in two days, and it ran fine after that. He also replaced two axel boots and fixed two rear windows whose individual motors failed when they had never been used, and the windows slid down -over a year apart.
He suggested that since no one rode in my back seat and I didn't use the windows that rather than replace the expensive motors that he permanently fix a metal bar under the first window so the window would remain in closed position. Later, when the second window motor failed, he did the same thing, charging me $15 each time. I hope I tipped him, as he had to take the inside of the doors off to get this done each time.
When my daughter was in college, I gave the Nissan to her and bought a new Chrysler 300. It will be 20 years old next year with 80,000 miles, and the interiior still looks new. (The exterior has a few dings where ppl have hit me in store parking lots.)
I was towed to the local car dealer's lot on a New Year's Day when everything was closed and it was the most bitter cold day of the year. I didn't have the option of being towed
to John's shop in another town, as I needed the driver to drop me off at my home. They later told me that one battery cable was bad and had to be replaced, and I had them install a new heavy duty battery. Their charge, with the computer hook-up, was unbelievably high. The car ran, but lights across the dash at night would get dimmer as I drove. Then, the headlights would come on when I turned on the car and go off when I turned off the car; but the light switch no longer works.
So, when John has time, he is going to go over my 300 with a fine toothed comb, replacing all the fluids and looking for electrical problems and anything he can spot that might cause me problems down the road. I don't trust anyone else.
My dad left his cute pickup to his grandson, and I want to leave my...
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