Christensen Automotive

A very professional group that takes the time to explain their service to your vehicle. Excellent customer service. They earned my trust and endorsement.

My daughter has gone here for years and so had I. They put a new engine to the tune
Of $ 6000 because she was late on oil change they did not honor when the engine
Blew up. What happened to honesty and pride in work?

I was extremely please at the work I got done on my 1978 Corvette It seems there is no repair shop in the Carson Valley that can work on an old Corvette let alone tune it up but Lance got the job done my Vette runs like it suppose to. I well defiantly take it back to them.

If you’ve got money and time to waste, this is the place to go! Lance comes across as a nice guy, but will try to rob you blind. My ford expedition was misfiring, and in need of new spark plugs. Lance had us drop the car off at 8:00 AM. By 11:30, they still hadn’t checked the car. We finally got a diagnosis-​at 2:00 PM! Besides replacing plugs, he wanted to replace all eight coils– because one might be bad and they couldn’t tell which one– estimating $ 1300 worth of repairs. We decided to get two other opinions– (both of which easily determined the bad coil) — and ultimately had everything fixed, up, and running, for $ 325!!! So glad we didn’t take Christensen Automotive as the final answer. Haven’t had any more problems with my car, and saved nearly $ 1000!

Very friendly, fast and fairly reasonable. Car broke down on the way from CA and they were able to get a new alternator in under three hours.

I travel many miles each week between Reno and Minden. Between the two cities there are many places to get my oil changed. But I keep going back to Christensen because they do a great job keeping my car running great.

I took my car to Christensen Automotive for a timing belt change. The quote the initially gave me (to get me in the door), went up drastically once they had my car apart. I agreed to the repairs even though their sales tactics made me uncomfortable. What a mistake! The car was running perfectly fine when I took it in, but when they returned it to me it ran so rough that the entire car shook violently when idling. I took it back to them, assuming they would fix the problem that was so obviously related to the repair (or misrepair) they had just done. They kept it for a couple of hours and called to tell me that I now needed a major servicing… more $$$! It is unbelievable to me that they would take a car that is running perfectly, return it in rough running condition, and then have the nerve to tell me that I need to pay for more repairs. Since I’ve had this experience I’ve heard from many others that they too have been burned by this place. A friend of mine even had the exact same problem with his timing belt and finally had to take it to another shop to be fixed. I hate to write negative reviews about local businesses, but perhaps if they read this they will rethink how they do business.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your mechanic was treating you fairly, perhaps you ought to try coming here. No hard up sell, just plain good service. Most often they have been able to get the work I needed to have done at a price I can afford, and they really work with me and my crazy schedule. This is a family run company and everyone working there seems to like their job. I know I am treated fairly and they do honest good work.

I had to work down in LA for a week and my wife was stuck at home with 2 kids, a car with chains that she could not remove and a truck with a transmission line leak. Lance from Christensen came to our house with a mechanic, removed the chains from my wife’s Honda and then took our truck back to his shop for repair. The bill was going to be $ 550 so he called a local Chevy dealership and was able to get the problem fixed under warranty even through we were out of the factory warranty by 14K miles. He pulled off a miracle and saved us $ 500 two weeks before Xmas. All he asked of us was $ 15.00 for two quarts of transmission fluid.