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The short version, including the parts that don't flatter me.
Most trades pages open by telling you how many happy customers there are. I'm not going to do that, because I can't back it up yet. Here is the whole true picture:
- I'm 20. I'm not going to invent a decade of experience to make you comfortable.
- I have four completed paid jobs and three reviews. Three of the four are written up further down this page with the car, the month, the work and the actual dollar figure, each one published with that customer's permission on record, and none of them with a name or a city: my customers stay private, on every job, on purpose. The fourth was finished on August 30, 2026 and stays off this page until that customer gives me the OK, the same gate the other three went through. All three reviews are quoted in full, unedited.
- My Google listing is still under my old business name while I get it renamed, so I'm not sending you there yet, you'd land on a page that doesn't match the name on this site. The reviews are printed here in full instead.
- There's no photo of me on this site. I'd rather have none than a stock photo of someone else's hands pretending to be mine.
So instead of borrowed credibility, this is what I'm handing you: a warranty with dates and limits on it, a step-by-step of what happens on your property, the exact parts named before you approve anything, and a published list of jobs I turn down. Those are all things you can hold me to.
Device 1
The workmanship warranty, written down, dated, and limited on purpose.
I've always honoured this the simple way: if the thing I fixed isn't fixed, I come back. The problem was that it lived in my head instead of on the website, which is worth nothing to someone deciding whether to book me. So here it is with edges on it.
Covered, 90 days or 5,000 km, whichever comes first
- My labour. If a repair I quoted and installed didn't fix the complaint, or something I installed comes loose, leaks or fails, I come back and look at it at no charge to you.
- Parts I supplied. They carry their manufacturer's warranty. Inside the 90 days I fit the replacement without charging you labour again.
- Coming back to you. No travel charge to return to the same address inside my five cities. The whole point of mobile is that you don't drive anywhere, that doesn't stop being true when there's a problem.
Not covered, and I'd rather you read this now than argue about it later
- A part you supplied. Happy to install your part, plenty of people do. But if that part is wrong, or it fails, that's on the part, not on my labour. You get the labour-only price in exchange.
- Faults I didn't touch. New brakes don't cover an alternator.
- Normal wear consumed in service, pads and fluids do their job by wearing out.
- Work I recommended in writing and you declined. Your call, but it isn't a warranty claim later.
- Damage from driving on after I told you to stop. If I tell you the car isn't safe to drive, it's in writing, and driving it anyway is outside this.
- A vehicle someone else has worked on since my visit. Once another set of hands has been in there, I can't tell whose work failed.
How you claim it
Call or text 647-450-0406 with the date of the job and what the car's doing. That's the whole process, no claim form, no service advisor, no "bring it in between 9 and 5." I come back to the car. If it turns out the problem isn't my work, I'll tell you what it actually is instead of billing you for finding out.
Warranty v1.0, published 17 August 2026. Applies to work quoted on or after that date. Read the full terms →
Device 2
The arrival protocol: exactly what happens on your property.
Price isn't usually the real hesitation. The real one is what is actually going to happen in my driveway for the next three hours, and how much of my day does it cost me. So here's the whole thing, start to finish. Most of my jobs run one to three hours.
Before the visit
- 1You get the flat number first. Parts and labour together, for the whole job, before anything is booked. Nothing gets ordered and nobody drives anywhere until you've said yes to that number.
- 2You pick the window yourself. Real windows on this site, pick one, it's yours. No "somewhere between 8 and 5."
- 3What I need from you: a flat, solid spot to work, asphalt or concrete driveway, or a legal parking space, and the keys when I get there. That's it. If the car lives in an underground or condo garage, tell me before booking: ceiling height and building rules decide whether it's even possible, and I'd rather find that out now than while I'm standing there.
- 4Parts come with me. I buy them after you approve and they arrive in my truck, in their boxes. No mid-job parts run, no "I'll have to come back Thursday."
When I pull up
- 5Two texts. One when I'm leaving the job before yours, one when I'm outside. You're not waiting by a window.
- 6I park without blocking anyone, street or the end of the driveway, never across a neighbour's access.
- 7I don't need to come inside. Ever. Not the house, not the garage if you'd rather I stayed out of it. No bathroom request, no "can I plug something in." I work off my own gear.
- 8We look at the car together before a single tool comes out and I say the flat number out loud so we both heard it. If what I find changes the job, work stops right there and you decide, the quote never quietly grows while your car is in pieces.
While I'm working
- 9Solid, level ground only. Jack stands go on asphalt or concrete, not on a slope, not on grass, not on soft pavers that a stand can crack. If your driveway is a hill, I'll tell you before you book and we sort out a flat spot instead of improvising on the day.
- 10Nothing of yours gets stained. Drain pan under anything that can drip, cardboard down under the work area. Used oil, old coolant and old brake fluid leave in sealed containers in my truck and go to a proper recycling depot, never your storm drain, never your garbage.
- 11Wheel nuts get a torque wrench, not an impact gun and a guess, to the manufacturer's spec for your car. On any wheel-off job I'll also tell you to have them re-checked after about 100 km. That's standard practice, and a shop should be telling you the same thing.
- 12Watch as much or as little as you want. Stand there and ask questions the whole time, or stay inside and I'll text you when it's done. Both are normal. Nobody's getting shooed away from their own car.
Before I leave
- 13Old parts go in your hand, the worn pads, the seized caliper, the leaking gasket, before I ask you for a dollar. You get to see what you paid for. If you don't want them, they leave with me.
- 14Test drive if the job calls for one, brakes, suspension, no-starts. You can come along.
- 15My mess leaves with me. Packaging, cardboard, drained fluids, the lot. Your driveway looks like I was never there.
- 16You pay when the work is done and you've seen it. Cash or e-transfer, the flat number we agreed, nothing added at the end. No tax line either: I'm not HST-registered at my volume, so the flat price is the price.
- 17You get a written record of what was replaced, which exact parts went on, and the flat price. That record is what the warranty above runs from.
Weather, honestly. I work outside. In freezing rain or a real storm I'd rather move you than rush a brake job with numb hands, and I make that call early in the day, not after you've already been waiting for me.
Device 3
The parts policy, because "cheap mobile guy, cheap parts" is the fear.
It's a reasonable fear. A cheaper price has to come from somewhere, and the easy place to hide it is the box the part came out of. Mine doesn't come from there, it comes from not paying for a building, a service advisor, or an upsell quota. So the parts rule is written down and it's checkable before you approve anything.
The rule
- OEM, or the company that actually manufactures the OEM part. On most cars the "genuine" part in the dealer box was made by a supplier who sells the identical part under their own name for less. That's the tier I buy in. OEM or true OE-equivalent.
- Your quote names the exact brand and part number before you approve it. Not "quality pads", the actual name, in writing, while you can still say no.
- Price it yourself before you say go. Same part number at RockAuto, FCP Euro or PartSource. I'd rather you checked.
- Receipts are shown. Boxes come out of my truck unopened in front of you, and the parts receipt is part of the written record you keep.
- You get told before any substitution. If I can't get the tier I quoted for your car at a sane price, you hear which brand I can get and why, before the work, not after.
What doesn't go on your car
- No-name rotors and pads out of a marketplace listing, with no manufacturer on the box.
- Remanufactured calipers, alternators or starters of unknown origin.
- The lowest-priced thing on the shelf, slipped in quietly to protect my margin on a flat quote. If the budget option is genuinely the right call for your car and how long you're keeping it, I'll price it, tell you exactly what you're giving up, and let you choose out loud.
Bringing your own part
Completely fine, people message me things like "O2 sensor bank 1 install, I have the sensor" all the time and I'll fit it. Two conditions, both fair: you get a labour-only flat price, and the warranty above covers my labour but not a part I didn't buy. If it's the wrong part for your car, I'll tell you before it goes on rather than force it and charge you twice.
Published ranges for every job family I do, machine-readable and dated, live on the pricing page. Your flat quote is a number for your car, the ranges are there so you're never guessing what fair looks like.
Device 4
What I don't do in a driveway.
Anyone can list what they do. The useful list is the other one, because a mechanic who takes every job is a mechanic who's going to get in over his head on yours. A driveway has no hoist, no press, and no machine shop. So these are jobs I turn down, or send elsewhere, on purpose:
- Timing chains and timing belts. Needs a lift, cam-holding tools and a full day with zero margin for error. Getting an engine's timing wrong in a driveway is how you turn a repair into an engine.
- Clutch replacement. The transmission has to come out. That's a hoist and a transmission jack, not jack stands on your interlock.
- Head gaskets and internal engine work. The engine comes apart, surfaces get measured, a machine shop gets involved. That is not driveway work at any price.
- Transmission rebuilds and internal transmission work. Same reason. Taking a gearbox out of the way to reach something behind it, a rear main seal, for instance, is a different job, and I've done one: three days, booked as three days, on a driveway that suited it. That job is written up in full. I'll only quote that class of work where the space and the schedule genuinely allow, and I'll say no where they don't.
- Wheel alignments, tire mounting and balancing. Those are machines, not skills, an alignment rack and a tire balancer. After suspension work I'll tell you plainly that you need an alignment and roughly what it should cost.
- Welded exhaust work. Bolt-on exhaust, flex pipes, mufflers and resonators, yes. If your car needs cutting and welding, that belongs on a lift.
- Safety certificates and commercial (DriveON) annual inspections. In Ontario those can only legally be issued at a licensed inspection centre. A mobile mechanic can't hand you one, and anyone offering to is telling you something untrue.
- Emissions deletes. DPF or EGR removal, "tunes" that defeat emissions equipment. Illegal. I don't care what it's worth, the answer's no.
- Telling you a car is fine when it isn't. If I find something that makes it unsafe to drive, you get told plainly and it goes in the written record. You can absolutely decide to leave it, but you'll never hear "it's fine" from me to keep a job pleasant.
What's left is what a driveway does better than a shop, because there's no waiting room in the equation: brakes, suspension and front end, batteries, alternators, starters and no-starts, cooling and water pumps, tune-ups, serpentine belts, CV axles, valve-cover oil leaks, fluids, and pre-purchase inspections on a car you're thinking of buying. That's the whole list, and it's short on purpose.
Device 5
Who exactly you're letting onto your property.
What I am
A sole proprietor. One person, own tools, own truck, working in the open on your property by your invitation. You have my name and my personal cell, there's no dispatcher, no franchise office, and no rotating list of subcontractors who might show up instead of me. The person who quotes you is the person who does the work and the person who answers when you text afterwards.
What I'm not going to claim
I'm not going to tell you I carry a commercial garage liability policy, because I can't hand you a certificate for one. Plenty of sites imply that and hope nobody asks. If your condo board, your employer, your landlord or your insurer requires proof of coverage before anyone works on a vehicle on their property, tell me before you book and I'll tell you straight whether I can meet the requirement. If I can't, I'll say so and you can go to a shop, that's a better outcome than me showing up and hoping nobody checks.
What I am responsible for
- The work I do and the parts I supply, that's the warranty, with real dates on it.
- Anything of yours I damage while I'm working. If it happens, you hear it from me before you notice it yourself, and I make it right.
- Being straight about scope. If a job turns out to be beyond what a driveway can safely do, I stop and say so, even mid-job, even if it costs me the ticket.
What I'm not responsible for
A fault I never touched, a condition I flagged in writing that you asked me to leave alone, or the consequences of driving a car I told you not to drive. That's the entire liability position, no fine print anywhere else on this site, because there is no fine print.
What I don't need from you
Your house keys, your garage code, or your car overnight. Car keys stay with you unless the job needs the engine started. For a quote I need the year, make and model, the symptom, and roughly where the car is, that's all. Nobody's leaving a vehicle with a stranger and hoping.
The proof I actually have
Four paid jobs. The three I can publish, in full.
Four isn't many, and inflating it would be the fastest way to deserve your suspicion. So instead of volume, here's specificity, the car, the month, the work, and the dollar figure that was actually paid. What you won't find is anyone's name or city: every customer here stays private, on every job, no matter what they'd allow me to print. The same figures appear on the pricing page and the real work pages. No page on this site where they get rounder. Three of the four are below. The biggest of them sat here as an honest blank for a week while I waited for its customer's OK; the OK is on record, so here it is. The fourth, finished on August 30, 2026, is in exactly that position now: on the books, off this page until its customer says yes.
- The car
- 2011 Volkswagen Golf GTI, 2.0 TSI with the six-speed DSG, 170,000 km. The biggest job I've done, and the one that best shows how I work.
- The work
- Rear main seal, with the gearbox coming out of the way to reach it. Then everything worth doing while the car was already apart: a DSG service with fresh fluid and filter, brakes at all four corners, pads and rotors, and a water pump with fresh coolant. Road-tested at the end.
- The number
- One flat quote of $3,000, agreed before any work, honoured to the dollar. Four jobs' worth of work in one visit, parts and labour together, nothing added at the end.
- How it went
- The owner first messaged through this site in April, took four months to decide, and booked the whole list at once. Three days in his driveway, booked as three days, finished through genuinely ugly weather. He left the five-star review below the same day it wrapped.
- Why the box sat blank first
- This write-up appeared only after his explicit OK, given directly and recorded 2026-08-30, the scope agreed and the moment it was given stored with the job record. For the week before that, this box said "not published yet" instead of quietly filling itself in. That rule, and keeping every customer nameless and cityless on top of it, is what makes the rest of this page worth reading.
- The complaint
- Clunking over bumps and a loose, wandering feel in the steering, classic worn front end on GTA roads.
- The work
- Front suspension refresh, worn front-end wear components replaced in one visit, in the owner's own driveway. There's video of this one on the write-up page.
- The number
- One flat quote of $1,400, agreed before any work started, honoured to the dollar. The owner had a shop quote in hand first and wanted a second opinion before anyone touched the car.
- How it finished
- Same day. Old parts handed over so he could see the wear himself, then a test drive.
- Check it against my own published numbers
- $1,400 sits inside the suspension range I publish for everyone, $350–$1,500 per job scope, which is dated and machine-readable at /data/consumer-rate-card.json. If I were quietly charging my own customers above the range I advertise, that file would show it.
- The vehicle
- 2023 Ram 2500, 6.7L Cummins turbo-diesel, belonging to a commercial used-car lot, a repeat business customer.
- The work
- Full diesel service: full-synthetic oil service to the correct heavy-duty spec (all twelve quarts), both fuel filters, the CCV filter, plus a forced DPF regeneration run under bidirectional scan-tool control with codes read and cleared.
- The number
- One flat quote of $450, no line items added at the end.
- How it finished
- Same visit, on-site in the lot. The truck never moved and never lost a day to a dealer service lane.
- Why it's worth listing
- A repeat commercial customer is a harder audience than a one-off retail one, a lot owner knows what the work is worth and what it should cost.
The reviews
Three reviews, all real, all quoted in full.
Left on Google by customers who paid me. My listing there is still under my old business name while I get it renamed, so a link would send you somewhere that doesn't match this site. I'd rather print them unedited here and tell you which job each one is about.
Proof of how I actually inspect a car
You can read a full inspection report before you ever book one.
The other way to judge someone you've never met is to look at their output. My pre-purchase inspection report is published in full as a worked sample: brake pads measured in millimetres at each corner, tread depths, a codes scan with readiness monitors, honest Ontario rust notes, road-test findings, and every finding turned into a negotiation number off the published ranges.
It's marked as a sample and it's a made-up vehicle. I'm not going to publish a real customer's car and address. But the format, the level of detail and the willingness to write down bad news are exactly what you'd get.
Read the full sample inspection report → · What a pre-purchase inspection includes →
Still deciding? Ask me the awkward question.
Tell me what the car's doing and you get a price range on the spot, plus real time slots you can book yourself. If a job on this page's "won't do" list is what your car needs, I'll tell you that instead of taking the money.