Calgary Auto Repair Reviews

As another repair shop, we send our cylinder heads into Cetus for checking/repairs. Turn around times are quick, pricing is fair and Carl is great to deal with. We will continue to use them.

Staff were super friendly. Did the work on my van in the timeframe they said it would be done. On previous occasions, any mistakes were corrected without any fuss or added expense. Tammy and Fred treated me great. Has my recommendation

Cetus AutoPro Repair is a massive rip off!! I brought my truck in to get a misfiring plug replaced and they quoted me $980.00!! I obviously said no way, then went back and picked my truck up. I still had to pay $260.54 for their diagnosis. So I paid $260.54 for them to tell me what I already knew. All I can do now is tell everyone I know how horrible this place is.

Amazing service... very personable and knowledgeable. I will continue to go back to Cetus

Great service from these guys, brought a couple of cylinder heads to get inspected and resurfaced. They were very efficient getting them done and back to me. Would recommend them to anyone looking to engine work done!

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!