Electrical repair service near Vancouver, WA

Bill and his technicians are the best. Fixed a 15+ year dealer unfixed pinhole leak problem on our AC. THOUSANDS spent at the dealership. The serious vibration at idle- broken motor mounts. He mentioned it when I was at the counter explaining the problem. Automotive ESP? May be, but great service, nice folks, great price, fixed the problem and said all else was really good. Said nothing else was necessary- quite unusual for an auto shop. I believe him. Take your car or truck to Bill.

I will never take my muscle car or any of my other cars anywhere else for any mechanical repairs. After spending over $2600.00 at three repair shops from California to Vancouver with no results but a lighter wallet, recalcitrant service managers and a car that still did not run I was told to take my car to Auto Electric Specialties by the local shops who could not fix the problem but were eager to take my money. In less than an hour Auto Electric Specialties had the problem diagnosed and repaired. They did not try to sell me any other service I did not need. I was so happy the car was finally running after having it towed from shop to shop I asked them to take a look at some other areas, from gauge light brightness to door locks that felt like the key was going to break off rather than unlock and they were all repaired for less than than 10% of what I had already spent just trying to get it running. These people are customer service oriented and know their technical stuff. They kept me apprised of the progress they were making or had made on getting my car to run. They are virtual miracle workers when it comes to car repairs from my perspective. Use them, you will not regret it. For me, they are 27 miles from my home but it is well worth any effort to get my cars to their door for service and they will be my only auto service provider until they close or I die!

DO NOT let the mechanics who work at this place touch your car. I never write reviews but I feel like everyone needs to know this place employs literal scumbags. I had the starter replaced on my car a few weeks ago by their mechanic Matt. He came to where I worked, swapped it out, and I was satisfied. Well, next morning I go to drive to work and my car overheats while driving down I5. Turns out the hose that runs from the radiator to the engine snapped off the radiator which was directly above where you would need to work when swapping out the starter. Coincidence? Yeah I don't think so one bit, it was literally the MORNING AFTER they replaced the starter. I get it towed back and I call McFarlands. They say they wont have a mechanic available until Monday (starter was replaced Thursday afternoon, car overheated Friday morning). I say that's fine, I understand things happen. I also ask over the phone if they are going to reimburse me for my tow bill. The woman tells me only if the car overheating was a direct cause of something their mechanic did. That's fair obviously, however it was no coincidence that this issue happened less than 12 hours after their mechanic was working on my car, but okay. So they schedule the same mechanic, Matt, to come out to my house Monday and figure out what happened. Monday rolls around, he shows up and checks out my car. Like I said the hose had snapped off the radiator and therefore caused the engine to overheat. He tells me that and I think okay, well obviously this isn't some freak coincidence, you snapped off the hose while swapping my starter, accident or not. Since there's obviously no way I can prove it was his fault (not like I was recording him on camera the whole time he was fixing my car on Thursday) he tells me he can't fix it for free and I still have to pay the $125 fee for them to come out to my house. So basically if I wanted it to be fixed, I would have to buy a whole new radiator, reschedule him to come out and then have him fix it. So we're talking around $250+ NOT including the tow bill AND not including all the days of work I have to miss because of something this dude did lmao. This is where it gets even better! Matt tells me that he "feels bad for me" and that if I buy the radiator (still a $100 part that I should not have had to buy in the first place) that he will come sometime after work/on the weekend and put it in for me for free since it's really not a hard swap to do on my car. I think well this is the best I'm going to get out of the situation, and I say okay and get his number. I order the radiator and it comes a few days later and I call him. He picks up the phone and we agree that he can come over on Saturday and swap it out for me. Saturday rolls around and take a wild guess what happens? He doesn't show up. I call him, and since now he obviously knows my number from when I previously called him, he doesn't answer. I call him the next day. No answer. I call him a few days after that. No answer. Yup, this dude is a garbage human being and I am shocked anyone would ever employ this guy. So like I said, avoid this place at all costs. There's several mobile mechanics in this area. PLEASE spend your money elsewhere.

NOTHING was done correctly. The distributor they took 4 days to put in ended up failing. The “high performance” control module that I bought for the distributor, they promised me was in the car was NOT in the new distributor. It was kept. The distributor WASNT tightened down and you could move it by hand. The valve covers were replaced which I didn’t NOT agree to. They leaked onto the exhaust manifold AFTER I got the car back. That was one of the jobs they recommended they should fix. They just charged me for new valve covers apparently because I ended up with a lot oil on my exhaust that had to be cleaned off again. And I paid another mechanic to do all of this work after I was over charged for the labor. 1200 I paid for basically nothing to be done right and a part to not be returned to me that I was lied to about being in my engine. I won’t be bringing my car back to Arthur’s. And I didn’t not like the response of the guy at the front desk when I told him about this.

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