Automotora Santiago (Kombi VW and others) | Mechanic and Parts

March 23rd, 2024 by ripelemonade08

DON’T GO THERE.
we arrived with our campervan because the engine didn’t work well (it often bugged to accelerate). He took apart our engine and seems to know well the mechanics of various types of vehicles, and told us what was the problem which would cost us 60USDollar. I went to get the spare piece he needed in the shop next door, when I came back he told us the Bolts of the front wheels were very old and needed to be changed, that it was very dangerous and they could result in our wheel falling of the car when driving. He told us it would cost 180dollars of working hours because it would take him all day to work on it, plus half of the next day.
After hesitating because of the price, we said yes okay. we went outside to the same store next door to look for the needed bolts, and decided to contact our mechanic from santiago to verify if the price is okay. He told us to run as fast as we could from wherever we were because the price was ridicoulous. Of course we immediately went back to the garage and the guy already took apart parts of the front wheel axis (and also our motor was still not fixed and completely took apart). We told him we didn’t want him to change the bolts, that we were in contact with a mechanic who told us he asked way too much. He simply replied to us that we should still change the bolts because he already did half the work (30minutes), and he would ask us 180dollars to put the old bolts back in, and thus that it would be better for us to let him at least put new bolts in.
Given that our engine and front wheel axis were taken completely apart, we didn’t have an option but to agree, feeling bad the rest of the day of course.
In sum, probably good mechanic, but will try to rip you off at any moment.

March 25th, 2023 by andylop848

Friendly older guy, works on older vehicles, old subarus, Fiat 500. He diagnosed our problem with the kombi quickly, and gave us advice.

January 14th, 2020 by lesmilav.canalblog.com

Spécialiste en boîte auto efficace et pas cher

February 5th, 2019 by thibaud.animation

This guy asked us 80000 pesos for one hour and half work for just cleaning our brakes. .. We negociated at 70000 but he said "Chili is expensive". He knows lot about kombis... But dont go here if you can 😁

February 1st, 2019 by mmartio1981

Very kind and helpful men, they help us with our Kombi, recomended.

January 17th, 2019 by thibaud.animation

This guy knows a lot about kombi, and he fixed our brakes problem

January 22nd, 2018 by Gringosperdidos

Great mechanics who can work on all brands of cars, even old ones. They change the steering box on our old kombi VW and did a great job. Really friendly as well.