Dixie Dan's Auto

These guys shouldn't be trusted. They fail to take responsibility for botched repairs.



In my case after we spent over $1,500 fixing an oil leak and replacing the timing belt/water pump.



We repeatedly asked them to give the car a once over. It is a new used purchase and we were needing to decide how much to invest in the car for repairs.



They failed to give the car a proper once over and told us that the car was decent and just needed a replacement of cam seals, timing belt and water pump.



$1,300 dollars later the car was still leaking oil! The repairs did nothing to fix the problem, which was the oil leak. I presume they made an assumption of where the oil was coming from and that they did not check the variable valve timing...which is where the car was leaking oil.



It ended up costing us another $1k to fix the repairs because of their, I presume, negligence. On top of replacing the variable valve timing we had to replace the timing belt again because it was covered in oil, which cause the belt to breakdown.



Just to be safe we replaced all of the seals they said they replaced.



My experience with them is not unique. I know of one other person who ended up with a dead car after Dixie Dan's replaced this persons timing belt. The belt busted. And, like usual, they failed to take responsibility.



Over the phone in discussion about the situation with one of the Dans he said something like "you can't blame the doctor if they don't catch what's wrong."



But, you can.