Toyota of Santa Barbara Parts

This is less of a review and more of warning: They charge you twice what a local mechanic would for the same service, if not more. I've gone here to get my car serviced 2 times and every time they charged $400. I came back the second time out of sheer convenience. These are routine checks on a car with less than 50k miles on it. No repairs or changes were necessary. Recently I had a seatbelt stop working, some mechanism within the actual assembly component malfunctioned. They claimed to have never seen this before and quoted me $1,000 to repair it. I bought the the belt & assembly for about $200 online, and with the help of a local mechanic I got it fixed; All in, the total cost was about $400. I want to stress that it's not that the employees are rude or anything, and I doubt they set

Maybe I am mistaken, but it SEEMS to have changed from past years. It had a REALLY BAD reputation, but my experience was very positive. Had the battery and starter replaced (battery was 7 years old). They got the job done quickly, even though the starter had to come from Los Angeles, and they kept me posted completely on what was going on in terms of time. I'm really happy. They seemed really busy, so other people seemed to feel the way I did.

great service from Daniel Barcelo and the techs