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Salt and cold are what actually break cars here.

Every city has brake jobs. This one has four to five months a year of driving through brine, a freeze and thaw cycle that rebuilds the pavement every spring, and mornings cold enough to take a third of the cranking power out of a healthy battery. Almost everything we fix traces back to one of those three.

Salt & undercarriage inspection

Brake and fuel lines corrode where the clips hold salt against the tube. They fail without warning.
Batteries die in February because of what July did to them. Cold just presents the bill.
Struts, wheels and control arms take the pothole season, and March is our busiest month for them.
Heaters and defrosters stop being a comfort item the moment you cannot see out of the windshield.

Every job gets a picture. You get the pictures.

Failed parts, measurements, corroded lines and scan screens. Partly so you can see what you paid for, mostly so a second opinion is easy to get.

Handheld OBD2 scan tool held in an orange nitrile glove showing fault code P0303, cylinder 3 misfire detected — P0303 - cylinder 3 misfire, stored. The code tells you which cylinder is unhappy. It does not tell you whether the cause is a coil, a plug, an injector or a leak, and that is the part you are actually paying for.

Professional Autel scan tablet held in one hand listing a catalyst efficiency code as current, pending and permanent — A proper scan separates current, pending and permanent codes instead of showing one mixed list. Here a catalyst efficiency fault is stored in all three states - that is a real problem, not a fluke.

Two alternators, the failed unit and its replacement, photographed together on a rainy day beside a wet fender — Old unit out, replacement in, photographed together in the rain. You get the picture of the failed part whether you ask for it or not.

Instrument cluster lit with multiple warning lamps including check engine, tire pressure and brake system — Six lamps at once is not six faults. It is usually one supply, one ground or one battery that dropped below the voltage the modules need to stay awake.

Car instrument cluster lit with a check engine lamp while rain covers the windshield — The call that comes in from a rained-on driveway with the check engine light glowing. This is the one we built the business around - you stay dry, we get wet.

Close view of a clogged air filter pleated element covered with dirt and plant debris — The same filter out of the box. A five minute check that nobody charges for and almost nobody does.

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One flat call-out across the whole county.

No zone pricing and no surcharge for the far side of the map. $150 costs the same in Bay View as it does in Menomonee Falls.

Before you call

What areas do you cover?

All of Milwaukee County and eastern Waukesha County - the city of Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, West Allis, Greenfield, Oak Creek, Franklin, Glendale, South Milwaukee, Cudahy, St. Francis, Brookfield, New Berlin, Menomonee Falls and the city of Waukesha. One flat call-out everywhere, no zone pricing.

How much does it cost to get you out?

$150 flat. That covers the rollout, a full diagnostic scan and the first 30 minutes on the car. If you decline the repair, that is the whole bill. If you go ahead, it comes off the total.

Do I have to be there?

No. Plenty of customers leave a key and go to work. We photograph everything before and after, and anything unexpected gets approved by text before we do it.

Can you come out in the winter?

Winter is our busiest season by a distance - no-starts, batteries, starters, heaters and brake lines. We work in it. Cold weather does not close us.

Do you fix cars for emissions failures?

We can fix why it failed, but we cannot perform the test - Wisconsin emissions testing happens at Wisconsin Vehicle Inspection Program stations. We read the exact failure, repair it, and get the readiness monitors set so it passes the retest.

What is the warranty?

12 months or 12,000 miles on parts and labor, whichever comes first. If something we fitted fails inside that, we come back out and there is no second call-out charge.

What payment do you take?

Card, tap, or bank transfer. You get an itemized invoice with the parts listed individually - not a single line saying 'repair'.

What will you not do?

Transmission rebuilds in the field, engine replacement in a driveway, bodywork or paint. Those need a lift and a roof, and we will tell you that on the phone rather than after we have taken a deposit.

The mechanic comes to the car.

Most repairs do not need a shop.
They need somebody to turn up.

Diagnostics

Batteries & Starting

No-Start

Brakes

Rust & Undercarriage

Suspension

Oil Changes

Cooling & Heat

Salt and cold are what actually break cars here.

Every job gets a picture. You get the pictures.

One flat call-out across the whole county.

Before you call

Something wrong with the car? Tell us where it is parked.

Most repairs do not need a shop.They need somebody to turn up.

Diagnostics

Batteries & Starting

No-Start

Brakes

Rust & Undercarriage

Suspension

Oil Changes

Cooling & Heat

Salt and cold are what actually break cars here.

Every job gets a picture. You get the pictures.

One flat call-out across the whole county.

Before you call

Something wrong with the car? Tell us where it is parked.

Most repairs do not need a shop.
They need somebody to turn up.