We Find The Problem Where It Sits

How It Works

No Tow Truck. No Waiting Room.

When a car won't start — or shouldn't be driven — the traditional path is miserable: arrange a tow, pay for the tow, wait days for a shop to "get to it," then get a phone call with a number you can't evaluate. A mobile diagnostic flips that. We drive to your home, your shop, or wherever the vehicle gave up, and we do the diagnostic work right there, with you free to look over our shoulder and ask questions.

That last part matters more than people expect. A diagnosis you watched happen is a diagnosis you can trust. We'll show you what we found — the failed reading, the worn part, the cracked hose — and explain what it means in plain language before anyone talks about repairs.

What a visit includes

• Conversation first. When did it start, what does it sound like, what changed? On older vehicles, the owner's history is half the diagnosis.
• Scan-tool reading on OBD-II vehicles (1996 and newer) — codes pulled, live data checked, not just "the code says O2 sensor, replace O2 sensor."
• Old-school diagnosis on pre-OBD classics: fuel delivery, spark, compression, vacuum, charging system — tested the way these cars were designed to be tested.
• Visual and mechanical inspection of the systems implicated: belts, hoses, wiring, connectors, fluid condition.
• A straight answer. What's wrong, how urgent it is, what a repair should involve, and an honest read on whether it's worth doing.

Why Diagnostics Are Different On A Classic

A modern car mostly tells you what's wrong with it. A 1987 Land Cruiser, a 1974 Volvo 145, or anything wearing a carburetor does not. Diagnosing older vehicles is a discipline of its own — vacuum leaks that mimic ignition problems, grounds gone bad after forty years, fuel systems that behave differently after a car has been sitting through a wet Peninsula winter. General-service shops see these cars rarely and diagnose them slowly, at your expense.

Classics 25 years and older are our specialty, not our exception. That's the core of who we are: we work on the cars other shops turn away, and we've seen the failure patterns — Japanese icons from Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, and Subaru; pre-'94 Volvos; and true vintage machines from before 1972.

Common problems we diagnose

• Car cranks but won't start — or won't crank at all
• Check engine light on, flashing, or coming and going
• Rough idle, stalling, hesitation, or surging
• Overheating and cooling-system problems
• Charging problems — batteries that die overnight, dim lights, alternator whine
• Knocks, ticks, squeals, and other noises that weren't there last month
• Fluid leaks you can't trace
• Brakes that pull, grind, or go soft
• Cars that ran fine when parked — and now won't wake up

What It Costs — Exactly

Our diagnostic pricing is flat and public, because "diagnostic fee" shouldn't be a surprise on an invoice.

The estimate form calculates your exact total before you ever talk to us. If the diagnostic becomes a repair, labor is billed at our normal published rates — no diagnostic-plus-markup games.

Service Area

We're based in Port Angeles and cover the Olympic Peninsula — Sequim, Port Townsend, Joyce, Forks, Port Ludlow, and the communities in between. The per-mile travel fee means far-flung addresses cost a little more and close ones cost less, which we think is fairer than a flat "service area surcharge" that has nearby customers subsidizing distant ones.