Calgary Auto Repair Reviews

These guys are a wannabe machine shop. Super unprofessional staff and incompetent. If you bring your stuff here you will get it back in worse condition. Parts will be a mess and what you asked them to do will most likely be out of spec. Then they will argue about it after. This shop is incompetent and just a huge giant waist of time.

Took a block here for basic overbore and decking on a recommendation in an attempt to save time. I typically do my own overbore/hone and have a rigid stone hone, inside mic and everything else required. I delivered the block with pistons, pre measured with piston OD's and specified piston to wall clearance written on the box. I should have known there would be problems when I got a call questioning why my specified clearances were so tight, which were actually +50% larger than what the manufacturer of pistons it's self recommended.. needless to say I reconfirm my original clearances to them, go pick it up a couple weeks later. I measure piston and bore myself and largest bore is double my spec with about 30% variance largest to smallest. Shockingly the bores had little to no taper despite each one being a different diameter. It gets worse when I discover they have mounted the block in the fixture down the main bearing journals without any protective sleeve marring a groove into 4 out of 5 main bearing journals. I complain and take it back to their shop, they take the block into the back for a bit and come out claiming all bores measure fine and I must be measuring wrong, they claim the damage to entire main bearing journal must have been there before. Ultimately avoided all responsibility and did nothing to help. I spent a month of time and over $650 to turn a pristine block into trash and ended up just doing the work myself anyways after pulling and stripping a new donor block. Probably added a full year of delay and doubled the cost of what should have been a very basic build.

This happened a while ago but I was just thinking about it today and some people need to know about this. I had a 2004 Ford Explore Sport Trac with about 115,000Km on it and it needed a timing chain replacement (Ford was not going to cover it despite there being a recall, my vin was not covered). It is a engine out job and takes about 2 days and costs about $4500. After 2 days I called and was told that its not done yet. So I called again after a few more days and was told the same thing. It took 2 WEEKS! When I picked it up I was reassured the the mechanic said that the engine was in very good condition. Walking out to the truck I had a peek under and it looked like they put on a shiny new oil pan, It didn't look like my original, it looked new. I know because I often do my own work on my vehicles. A few weeks later I now have a rear main seal leak... This made me think of everything that transpired. They probably dropped my engine and didn't tell me about it. At the time I recently bought the truck for $10,000 and put a staggering $9000 into it within 9 months. Most of that is the timing chain job and transfer case. You can imagine that I am now done with this thing. Lesson learned is to never buy a ford v6 cologne engine, and never bring it to Cetus automotive.

Amazing service again! In and out quick, even without an appointment, and they always save you as much $$$ as they can!

Staff (Carl and others) very helpful in providing me good advice on my vehicle 1995 Silverado. Tammy helped me in a salvage operation. I will give her a tip.

Very good service.

Got 2 12mm bolts tapped because of previously damaged threads in brake calipers. It was great that they said they could do it same day but they told me they’d call with an estimate. They called at noon and said they were done and I thought great, it can’t be that much. It was $292 for two re threads, I’m in no way a mechanic but I do know a bit. I’m not sure how it took $250 worth of labour and $40 for parts. I just think they should have called with the estimate first, I definitely wouldn’t have got it done.

Always happy with the service at CETUS. They care, and they know what they're doing. They'll always take the time to let you know what's going on and what your options are, without pressuring you into any decisions. I've taken my family vehicles to CETUS for 4 years now, and never had a complaint.