AAMCO Transmissions / Trinity, New York

Rating: ★

Auto Repair & Service, Automobile Parts & Supplies, Brake Repair

Address: 1266 Ralph Ave, Trinity

Postal code: 11236

Phone: (718) 773-6535

E-mail: jtransman@aol.com

In response to Jonathan: First of all, I never met you or saw your face over the 5 days, and 3 times I was in your shop about my car, which tells me you are not so intimately involved in the day to day grind of your business. How can you know the intimate details of what happened before you were involved, I only heard your voice when you called me about the car the 5th day your shop had it. I`m not going to call y... view moreou a liar, but perhaps you are just spewing out the BS that your managers told you about the situation. You know they BS the customers, imagine how they must be BSing YOU! I never refused to listen to the alternator, why would I? in fact I DEMANDED to hear the whirring noise from it that they were talking about. Steve and I both spun it and listened to it, and when I told them I didn`t hear any noise, Steve said it was because it wasn`t under enough stress like when the belt is on it, I thought that made sense but was still so skeptical about them telling me it was bad, that I signed the alternator over the center where it comes apart so I would know if it was tampered with before I had it BENCH TESTED which I was threatening to do since John the manager would not budge on the price of $600+ to replace the supposedly "bad" alternator which I knew was not the problem, and is still humming away at 4000+ miles after I was told it was bad and the reason for my power loss by the way. You have no idea what I was told in that shop, because you were not there to hear it, but if you like I can play the audio I taped of your manager John telling me the alternator was bad, or perhaps you`d like to hear your lead mechanic (don`t remember his name) agreeing with me when he said that a bad alternator COULD NOT cause the power loss I was experiencing. The fact that you were willing to not charge me a dime for the tens of man-hours you have into my car only shows how guilty you truly are,.... Your team misdiagnosed my car, would not back down from charging for it, and only when confronted by a well informed, intelligent person who called you on ALL your BS, did you (the owner, Jonathan) finally get involved. You realized at that point, that you were better off cutting your losses, and giving me my car at no charge. Don`t pretend to be some kind of angel. PS. I would NEVER let your shop touch my car again, so keep the free oil changes to yourself.

IntelligentConsumer2 / 10/30/2011

I have just discovered that AAMCO are involved in dececptive practices in 2010 I took my vehicle to this location and was dissatisfied with the quality of their workmanship. It cost $3500.00 for the rebuilding of the transmission unit and it received a warranty for 3 years or 50,000 miles. The shop was a mess and the manager John Savin was as misleading as a representative of this location he was nothing more than a ... view morecon artist. My vehicle has less than 50,000 mi and i maintain it in very good shape. last week i was driving on the street and i accelerated the engine and saw a huge cloud of smoke in the rear view mirror I immediately stop the vehicle and saw a large amount of transmission fluid leaking from the bottom of the vehicle. The vehicle would not move and did not shift at all the vehicle was towed and transported to 1266 Ralph ave the shop new location which I must say is far nicer than the former Utica Ave location. I at this time have not received any feedback from the shop and am without my vehicle. I did inform the shop that the vehicle is still under warranty and that the car should be repaired by them. I was told that they would phone me back today after leaving their shop and did not receive any phone call.

Blackkady Black 2 / 10/10/2011

I brought my 2005 Subaru Baja Turbo to these guys 6 weeks ago because it was loosing power when accelerating, and making a whirring noise under the hood. The manager Steve seemed very professional on the phone and in person. It was to be about $100 for initial diagnostics. The first mechanic said there was a power loss. The manager later told me there was no power loss, and said it was b/c I was hearing a noise from ... view morethe bad alternator on accelerating, and was instinctively taking my foot off the gas, and the alternator needed to be changed. I argued this b/c it seemed ridiculous that it A) had not just shut down the ignition system if it was bad, and caused instead a DECREASE in power. and B) I had been driving this car for 5 years, and know I wasn`t laying off the gas, and C) Why would an alternator with 46,000 miles on it go bad. They nevertheless reluctantly talked me into changing the alternator (for $600+) with some convoluted story about how it could cause a power loss like I was experiencing, and this was after doing further diagnostics which were supposedly "very involved", and would now cost about $300 in total. After the work was done (5 days later now), the manager calls me and says "I know why you`re having a power loss, you have a bad turbocharger". They now wanted to charge me the $600+ PLUS the cost of a repair to the Turbo. At this point their supervising manager named John got involved. He was extremely difficult to deal with, kept changing the subject, and would not budge on the price for the repairs which I believed I did not need. He told me "I know your alternator is bad" I said, "but it was putting out the right voltage, and we have a source for the power loss now, how do you know it`s bad?" to which he said "I could hear the noise it was making with the stethoscope we use to listen to the parts". Later I asked John what it would take to fix the Turbo, John told me "I don`t know, we have to ask the mechanic" I said "you`re not a mechanic?" he said "no, I`m not" but yet he was able to BS me into believing that the alternator was the source of the problem with intimidation, and 4 syllable words. Finally I got a call from the owner, who said " we don`t work on Turbo`s, you don`t owe us anything on the car, but we don`t want to have anything to do with it anymore". This was after they had the car for 5 days and had countless man-hours into it. He first said he would drop the car off with me, but then reneged when I told him I wanted my old alternator back in the car, He put back the old "bad" alternator, I picked my car up, brought it to the dealer, within 24 hours they told me the Turbo unit was bad, and 48 hours later I had a new unit installed, they even changed the oil at no charge. This was a hellish experience. Dealing with the managing staff was very stressful, and they became rude when I would ask them intelligent questions. I would tell everyone reading this to STAY AWAY FROM THIS AAMCO CENTER!!! They should call it SCAAMCO! BTW, 2000+ miles later, and my "bad" alternator is still humming away with no problems.

IntelligentConsumer / 10/5/2011

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