Castro Motorspots, you would have to be high as hell to go here...

[KIRIEIW]

I'm not super surprised. Many shops that have good reputations do screw up, usually due to bad employees/ people that have no idea what there doing. I used to go to a shop called "Sonic MS" in my area for doing modification's on my car. A few years later my shocks blew on the car, most likely due to me being to low on my coils. Well when I ended up doing the suspension job myself the second time around to replace the shocks, I found out quickly how horrible of a job the technician did installing my suspension kit, over torquing seriously every single faster. Threads where even stripped on a stud! It sucks, but technicians usually have a time limit on a job, or at minimum a "suggested" time to complete a job by. Because of that, they might rush threw the job, not doing there best work.

If you think your capable of doing work yourself OP, then by all means do it. Also, if you do work on your car enough you should have caught that tranny leak. I have yet to see a e30 that doesn't have a leaky tranny on stock seals, can't blame that one on Castro.

Edit: I guess your blaming the mounting hardware thats missing for tranny on Castro

[IRUNEDM]

I had my exhaust setup done there a few years back and asked them to install the S52 headers that I had provided. They ended up leaving the M50 headers on and broke one of the header studs without telling me anything, causing me to have an exhaust leak for a few months until I noticed it.

[2mAn]

Please take a few minutes to proofread that initial post. It's painful to read

[torqueflight]

I just looked at the selector rod and its not the one the one I gave them with the bend in it. Its one that had been ground down. It might not even be the brand new z3 shifter I gave them either.

[Coupelx]

[torqueflight]

Castro Motorspots,

Okay Ive had enough. Ive been there 3 times. I usually do all the work on my car, Im very capable. I was so caught up with work and I needed things fixed asap. I now realize I've taken my car there 3 times like and idiot. I can't believe I see some many e30s rocking their license plate holder.

They have not used parts I have supplied. Changed me for work they didn't do. Sent me out on the street with no brakes. Stolen stickers out of my car and now I have no idea what work they really did or didn't do. Or if they have taken parts off my car.

Ive driven my car over 70k miles and owned it 5 years before I took it to Castro's. Ive never had any issue with my transmission and I beat the hell out of the car. The last time it was there I had them check the car to see where leaks are coming from. My e30 has typical leaks. I was surprised when they told me the transmission was leaking as Im sure it would of presented itself by now. So a few months later its getting really hard for me to shift and its gotten so bad it would barley go into gear. I go to swap the oil thinking its maybe really old and there was hardly any oil in it. Come to find out 2 mounting bolts are missing from the passenger side where the tans meets the engine. And the inside of the bolt holes are super clean. So they couldn't have been gone for that long. Now that I changed the oil the syncos feel fucked. Hopfully I just put the wrong oil in it.

I supplied them with the metal rings that hold the boots on the tie rod ends. Just found out they used zip ties.

I had them do a full bushing change / rebuilt kit when I had them install the z3 short shifter. They gave me all the bushing back and said they didn't want to drop the driveline but still change and said they would do it if I ever brought it back. Not only that but they gave me the car back with the linkage grinding the hell out of the driveline with no mention to me that it was doing it. They just told me to let it grind till it wears a notch in it and then it will stop. Needless to say it was so bad I had to take it back and have them install a bent one. But now the car doesn't feel like it has a short shift so Im not sure if its still my shifter or not. Im gonna have to take it all apart and check the part number.

After the tie rod swap I noticed a couple days later I was missing a bbs cap on my weaves.

Had them doing the wheel bearings and all I hear is crazy grinding on the passenger front wheel when I make a hard left turn.

Also had them install the bushing for the controls. It squeaks so bad I feel it vibrating under my feet.

Unreal. Not only is this poor business practices. This is fraud.

Beware.