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• Review frommel s

  Date: 06/19/2024

  almost every thing that ******************* says is a lie. he has know idea who i am and what i have done and do for this community in the last 39 years. i've been in ********** my whole life i am loved and respected he thinks he has the right to say what ever he wants this is a joke. ******* to remove and replace a transmission on a 4x4 pick up is an outrages amount ??? and for the bbb how dare you to post such garbage. i was a member for appox 20+ years untill i found out that no matter how bad you are as long as you pay your still accredited. i want them to tell you how many bad reviews i've gotten in the last 39 years. so bbb i will be expecting an answer if you post such garbage you can tell the people how many ????? !!!!!!

• Review fromDoug S

  Date: 06/06/2024

  Known *** for well over 20 years. Before he passed in 2008, my father was friends with him, and the body shop he worked at even sponsored his racecar. At my recommendation, many of my law enforcement friends and family used him over the years. So naturally when my son recently had an issue with his truck, a 2004 Silverado, we took it to ***.... And to our absolute shock we got screwed. Badly. The cost was outrageous and it took forever to what amounted to simply replacing a flywheel. Got it back and subsequently learned that many of my friends and family and their business and families also had recent bad experiences with ***. Guess he really went down hill.However, a few days after we got the truck back we discovered a leak in the transmission that we didn't have before. We didn't have a leak. To avoid ***, we decided to first look into it ourselves and with a simple visual observation it was clear that when the flywheel was installed the front seal must have been damaged. Reluctantly we took it back to ***. Feeling like I disappointed my son by recommending *** to begin with, I hoped that *** would be responsible and reasonable as the leak was obviously a result of his work. A front seal is nothing and should have been done when he had it apart. Poor workmanship. We left the truck for him to inspect the leak. He had the truck for another three weeks. We waited and got the call and instead of just replacing the $15 seal and accepting that he should have caught that, or even just working with us a little , he said it would be over 4800 to rebuild. It doesn't need that, just a front seal, Mel.I explained that the leak was a result of their initial work and their reply wasn't to deny that fact, but rather to say that the truck was driven 1000 miles since their repair. Obscene. Absolutely obscene. I have since learned of many other ppl who were once friendly with *** and relied on his work also got screwed. DO NOT USE ACADEMY TRANSMISSIONS CROOKS.