Electrical repair service near Mclean, VA

The managers and mechanics at Bowie Shell are honest. They do not inflate prices and provide a thorough and honest assessment regarding the status of the car and fair pricing for any repairs needed. Carl and Ron are the greatest.

This Gem of a human being wants to charge my daughter $349.00 to put a set of rear brakes on her car and it will be extra for rotors! I've NEVER seen anyone charge a price like this. It's a 2005 Monte Carlo and this is at least DOUBLE what it should cost to slap on a few brake pads. DON'T give this POS your business, save YOUR money Remove review

This place was impressive! Clean shop, free coffee, wood floors!! They only charged me $899.45 for the rear main seal on my 2003 Lexus Rx300. The dealer had quoted me $1750! The owner, Jeff told me that he had been working for Lexus for 13 years, he even took care of my idle problem when he did the seal. I mentioned it to him and he knew exactly what it was. Love this place!! will be back

Go ANYWHERE else!!! Gave me estimate on repairs for a problem I was having. Two of the part prices they quoted were AT LEAST 400% markup of actual cost. Found out, after taking somewhere else (and checking also with at least 5 other shops), I only needed ONE thing replaced. Meineke's extremely outlandish high-priced rip-off attempts at their over 400% markup part prices were not even in need of repair or replacement!!! I wish one of those "Dateline" type investigations would be done on these crooks.

My car was towed to Earl's on Saturday before Labor Day, because the fan belt broke and the steering was frozen. I had just gotten my car inspected by another shop and it passed. Due to the holiday. Earl called and told me on the next Tuesday that I needed a fan belt and an air compressor for the air conditioning unit, and did not mention anything else. I asked if he could get a used part, so it would be less expensive. He said that would be fine. We discussed him going to one of the local auto parts store to buy it. He quoted me a price of just under $300, which I assumed was a good price. He said I could pay with a check. But, when I arrived at his shop, he said he would not take my check since the branches were not right in the neighborhood; he also did not take credit cards. (That should have been my first red flag.) So I offered to drive to an ATM to get him cash. He agreed. As soon as I turned on the engine, the engine light came on. When I asked him about it and he said that it was normal for cars to have the engine light come on. I said "no" I did not think that was right, and that there must be something else wrong with the car. He began to rank and yell at me and said that he was right and I was wrong! He had NO customer service skills! Also, he told me I had a large oil leak, which no other mechanic told me about. So, I was upset even more. But, I gave him the cash and told him I did not feel safe driving a car this way. The next day , I brought the car to another repair shop who informated me that the compressor was defective. It shorted out the fuse. When I called Earl to ask him for the reciept for the part, he yelled at me and said he as done with all this woman stuff! He then hung up the phone in my ear. DO NOT GO TO THIS MAN TO GET YOUR CAR REPAIRED. It will come out worse than when it went in!