Rick's Tire & Auto — Local services in Greenville

Hi, well you now many newer cars manufacture suggest the timing belt be replaced every 100,000 miles to prevent damage to the car’s engine you know preventive maintenance, Well the 1st time I had the timing belt replaced was at one of those hi tech shops that cost a lot of money, well it’s getting time to get it replaced again but this time I decided to use a local shop and low tech, but I was told word of mouth that this shop rick,s tire & auto do good work at a cheap price. 1st mistake, do you remember the saying ( you get what you pay for) well it’s true. I order a timing belt kit off Amazon it came with everything including the water pump, it was suggested to replace all the seals also, so I had this shop to do it the crank and cam seals. A little over a year I could smell oil, well knowing I just had new seals replaced in the engine it could only possible be the valve cover gasket, well I try this local shop again to replace the valve cover gasket. 2nd mistake. So I let this shop do the repair, the mechanic said i might smell some oil but it should go away I said ok. I live about 8 miles from this shop, I could smell the oil like he said, so I thought this is ok until looked under the hood pools of oil on the front of the engine was not there before, the shop is closed now end of day. So I called the shop the next morning the owner said to bring the car back and we will check it, I got a call from shop the owner said oil was coming from the cam seals, he also suggested I replace the timing belt while they’re doing the work if it haven’t been replaced, then ask when was the last time it was replaced, I explain to him about a year ago and your shop did the work........crickets. He said you know these new parts don’t last like the old ones. Well I don’t think it’s the parts, I think the old shop just did not installed the cam seals correctly, the mechanic did say he had a hard time getting the seals out and putting the new one in, I suggest if you have a newer car don’t go here, If you need a expensive oil change maybe this is your shop ... 😡

Don’t think the valve cover gasket was the problem , no more...

In two weeks time, after first paying to have a motor replaced, I've had several issues related to that motor or some other vital system in my car for which I've had to return my vehicle and pay more money with an additional tow fee. Sometimes it was less than 30 minutes after picking up my "repaired" car. The state of my car now is that is no longer running, less than a month after taking it out of the shop the first time and almost $2000 later. I regret ever doing business with this shop and shop owner. I would not reccomend...

Always too busy to take my car in when I need it repaired there's no place for me and my grandson to sit down unless we take a blanket and put it outside on the grass and having some more to see it while you're waiting for your car to be repaired can be very important I have never been pleased with the pricing when I have used him in the past I have used him for tires in the past Walmart is cheaper I guess everyone has to make a...