Ken`s Import Service / Bellemont, Arizona

Rating: ★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Automobile Body Repairing & Painting, Used Car Dealers

Address: 1609 E Butler Ave, Bellemont

Postal code: 86001

Phone: (928) 779-2121

Summary: The auto shop claimed that they were service professional for import cars and would use genuine BMW fuel pump for my car. One year later the car broke down. The BMW dealer I went to told me that the fuel pump in my car was a fake, and that the pump was melting down creating a fire hazard to my personal safety. Here are the details about what happened: In November 2010 I was driving my 2006 BMW X5 in a... view more road trip from Texas to California. The car broke down in Arizona due to fuel pump failure. I had the car towed to Ken?ˆ™s Import Service & Repair in Flagstaff, AZ, where they claimed that they were specialized in imported cars. The auto shop put on a new fuel pump and a new fuel filter under their work order #21052. I was assured at that time by the auto shop that the new fuel pump is an authentic BMW fuel pump. Because my car has an extended warranty, the auto shop also contacted and filed claim with the warranty company using BMW part number. Under that situation, both I and the warranty company approve the job and paid the bill of $1066. First trouble came right after I picked up my car from the auto shop. The engine worked really strangely on the road. After I barely made to Las Vegas, the engine light is on and I had to send the car to Desert BMW of Las Vegas. After checking, the dealer told me that the seal of the new fuel pump was fit incorrectly and was leaking badly. I had to stay in Las Vegas for three days to fix the problem. Then I contacted Ken?ˆ™s Import Service & Repair asking for an explanation. After lengthy emails, the auto shop acknowledged their fault and refunded me $309 for the repair bill of the seal leaking, but refused to pay for my hotel/taxi expenses. Trying to save myself from more arguing with the auto shop, I accepted the check, hoping that is the end of my trouble with that auto shop. The turning point came in February 2012. I have moved to Los Angeles at that time. The car was in BMW of Monrovia for service check of some other parts in the fuel system. After disassembling the fuel system from the car, the dealer notified me that the fuel pump was melting down and leaking fatal gas steam into the car, that the fuel pump there was NOT a BMW pump, and that this was a fire hazard to my car and my personal safety. I was totally angry after knowing the truth, for the facts that: a. Ken?ˆ™s Import Service & Repair has marketed themselves to customers as professionals for imported cars while they are in fact incompetent to provide such service. (What kind of professional service are they who do not even know how to put a seal correctly and cannot tell if a part is real or fake?) b. They lied to their customer/warranty company on their face, used fake and inferior auto part, and recklessly put their clients?ˆ™ personal safety into danger, for their own profits. I wrote a letter to the owner of Ken?ˆ™s Import Service & Repair, demanding an explanation and solution. He dragged on for two months, then simply said "the fuel pump for your car is a oem. pump and that is where I have to go by", but refused to show any supporting document to prove its authentication. To whoever read this review: Think twice before you use this auto shop. I have the official reports from two BMW dealers, witnesses, physical evidence and all the written communication with the auto shop regarding everything I said here. I would like to bring to your attention about the business practice of this auto shop, just to do my part to prevent the same disaster from happening to other consumers, who may already fall in as victim of this company but did not even know the danger they were in. Also, I am in the middle of taking legal action against this auto shop for their wrong doings.

past-customer / 4/21/2012

As a preface, I originally took my BMW to brakemasters on the advice of the person who sold me the car. The car`s check engine light had come on and therefore I needed to take it somewhere where they could read the codes that were activated. The aforementioned business saw the two codes that were activated and decided to simply replace the parts whose codes were showing on the computer... This would cost me over 80... view more0 dollars without any real guarantee that it would fix the problem. So, feeling uneasy I opened up the phone book and found Ken`s Import Service figuring that their services might be a little more appropriate for what I needed. Within 2 minutes of speaking with the gentleman on the other end of the line I knew that this was a real auto shop. It was explained that, yes they would check out the activated codes with their computer, but they would also do an hour long diagnostic check, running through all possibilities of what could be wrong. Once they came to a conclusion as to the most obvious explanation, after actually thinking about it as opposed to throwing expensive parts at the solution, they called me and asked if I would mind if they went ahead and began their work. After finding out how much it would cost me, $200.00, I honestly would have paid them 750 dollars after finding out the other place would cost me 800, I felt like I was in good hands. The actual codes that came up were for the Knock Sensors, the Throttle position sensor and the O2 sensor. The actual part that needed to be replaced was the plastic air-intake boot that feeds air into the engine, it had a small leak in it and was throwing off the sensors, which in turn activated the codes. I highly recommend taking your car here if you have any type of foreign car or domestic for that matter.

ejm300zx / 5/16/2008

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