How to deal with a rude and pushy mechanic
Mechanics often insult your vehicle's build quality and engine while relentlessly pushing unwanted upgrades. The service experience breaks down further with false time estimates and a complete lack of follow-up communication about ordered parts. Some even resort to aggressive retaliation, like intentionally dropping your phone on an oily floor when asked to use tap-to-pay.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1never going there again
- 2avoiding chain garages and going to independent shops instead
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“he literally every time he was talking about something he would say something negative about my car, like the build is bad or the engine is trash”source ↗
“he kept trying to sell me upgrades which I respectfully but quickly passed on”source ↗
“he even go frustrated that I asked to do tap to pay and he took my phone brought it back and dropped it on "accident" on oil floor”source ↗
“The people are rude and not helpful and they give false time estimates for work to get done and most recently was told I would get a phone call about parts ordered for my brakes and yet I get no phone call.”source ↗
Where this came up
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