European Car Specialist / Vehicle and automotive servicing, repairs and mechanics in Pukekohe

He swindled me and he ****ed my car. i spent over 5k with him. Now im left with more repairs thats going to cost a **** load.
HE CHARGES 460+ for a service which is INSANE. he doesnt even service it. he changes the oil and thats it.

dont take your car here. he is a rip off and a scam.
i should of read the reviews before coming here.
jan needs to be… audited and shut the down!"

So unless you want your car ruined, keep away from this highly… dubious business"

After a diagnostics scan Jan advised me several codes had come up that needed attention. No call was made for the repair quote I just got a bill for over $4000. While the lack of a call prior to proceeding was not all that troubling it was unusual.

Jan also advised me prior to collecting the car he had also discovered a turbo problem, this was to cost $7000 to fix.

I had a sneaky… suspicion not all was well so decided to take it to Archibald and Shorter to check. The car did have a minor turbo problem but not to the extent Jan indicated.

Archibald and Shorter only charged $4300 and not only that they subsidised the repair by another $2000 as the part was just out of warranty.

I phoned Jan after to getting it repaired at Archibalds and asked him to explain the massive price difference he claimed that had he found the repair did not require the extent of repairs he had assessed he wouldn't have fitted the part.

I wasn’t going to post this until I discovered another post. Ironically this person also wasn’t going to post there concern until they too read another post that was similar in nature.

Jan perhaps your error was genuine in my case and as you claim you would have charged less had the part not needed replacing once you started to fix it. I will however leave this post and if other posts continue to show the same pattern we will know there is genuine reason for concern."

First initial contact was good, got car straight in to be looked and got back pretty quick with a quote for the work.

Quote was over priced but I was told it was a brand new genuine part so I was happy to pay the extra.

Job was done quick but hen a friend mentioned theyd be ripped off by this company in the past to a tune of $25,000 for repair work to a BMW and Dodge Ram.

So when I paid for work I asked for the faulty part,… which they gave me. When I got back home I still had this niggling feeling about what my friend said so I check the park they had replaced,

The part was covered in dust and definately NOT brand new so I took car back, owner Jan van den Berg blamed one of the boys in the workshop and offered to but in the brand New one but I opted for a discount, which he was reluctant and the funny thing was he said he didnt want to see me back as a customer. Now that makes me Laugh, even with the money I managed to recoup still an expensive lesson in doing some research and finding a mechanic that wont rip you off.

Labour charge is $75 an hour so beware and get a quote before you commit to any work, as my friend made that error.

Hopefully this will be of help to someone and I feel I little better now that I have sat down and done this."