Automotor VW - Patto Sigcha Mecanico VW | Mechanic and Parts

Ecuador

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Verified:
over 4 years ago
Altitude:
2860.6 masl
Phone:
None
Contributor:
wiracocharuca

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Repairs Vehicles:
Unknown
Repairs Motorcycles:
Unknown
Repairs Bicycles:
Unknown
Sells Parts:
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Si tienes cualquier VW Patto Sicha el mejor mecanico de VW de todo Ecuador. Super tecnico, muy profesional, con un muy buen equipo tecnico y sobre todo muy buena persona. Altamente recomendable. Cel +593999901132.

If you have any problem in your VW Patto Sicha is the better mechanical VW in all Ecuador. Very profesional, very technic, good team and good persons. High recomend.

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Worst experience with mechanics for 8 months!

As were said by other people Pato can arrange atmosphere of overlander friendly place. He will offer you to stay in his garage to sleep inside the car and will show a lot of overlander stickers! But this impression is wrong!
We arrived with the problem that we loose an oil. So he had to take the motor out to see the reason. He said us what need to repair and we agreed. All work was very slow. We had to ask him all the time why he does nothing with our car. It helped. For three days his boys (Pato almost doesn't works) did everything we arranged about. But there were a lot of things we had to remind him to do. Like to clean motor filter and air filter. All professional mechanics do that themselves while changing the oil.
But the worst surprise from Pato we had after 500 km after leaving him.
While driving the motor compartment started to smoke!And few seconds later big fire started. It was extremely dangerous because the fire was near the fuel tank!
We were lucky to stop the fire and there was no explosion. But the car needed to change all cables and a lot of new spare parts to replace! The reason of fire was that Pato (or his boys) didn't fix well the fuel hose!!!!
I wrote to Pato in WhatsApp about this situation because I thought it would be more fair before leaving the reference here. But he just ignored my message!!!
I think maybe Pato know something about vw cars (it seems that we loose less oil than before) but as were said before not him but other guys do the most of the work. And it's not professional and dangerous like in our case!
I recommend you to avoid this place! We really sorry that we didn't go with our problem to mechanic in Loja!

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Really bad experience after all!

We were losing way too much oil that’s why we came here. Pato examined our car and said it was a problem with rings and gaskets. He said it was necessary to take out the engine to replace some gaskets and rubber rings. It seemed all accurate and reliable. Because it would take many days we decided to travel to the Galapagos in the mean time and leave our van behind. When we came back everything looked fine. He said he checked and replaced all what was necessary and that we were not losing oil anymore. According to Pato the parts he needed were expensive cause they don’t have our car here (VW T3 air cooled 2.0) the final bill was a lot but it seemed fair for all the work that was done. Our van worked fine for the first 200 km but than the problems started. Two weeks later the left side of our engine was not working any longer and we had oil leakage again. At the next mechanic (who took out the engine) we found out Pato didn’t do all the things he said. It turned out he never took out the engine, he didn’t replace gaskets, he didn’t touch the radiator like he said etc. Although he returned half of our money after we confronted him with everything we felt really betrayed cause still we lost a lot of money ending up with even more problems. Really know exactly what kind of job you want him to do and make sure you really see it with your own eyes if you end up here. He seemed really kind and trustfull, always friendly and smiling, but in the end he wasn’t in our case, unfortunately.

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El taller de Patricio (Pato) es especialista no sólo en VW sino en atender viajeros. Además es super honesto y ayuda a conseguir los mejores precios en repuestos. Nos dejó quedarnos en el taller mientras esperábamos los repuestos para reparar la kombi.

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We came for maintenance work and had all parts required, called a week ahead to ensure he had time for us. Work for our ‘91 VW Vanagon included: change front brake pads, CV regrease, brake fluid flush, regrease suspension bushings - all should’ve taken 1 day or less as arranged with Pato.

THE GOOD
-Patto is a nice and honest guy
-can camp there, wifi works and toilet is clean enough (can find showers around the area)

THE BAD
-work is extremely slow and his one mechanic is unreliable (doesn’t show up for work because he gets hungover often according to Patto). We were there for 4 days before any work was started. Note Patto barely works on cars himself.
-we discovered a cracked upper control arm and instead of trying to find another one through his contacts Patto opted to have it welded. We were very specific on how it should be fixed and offered to go get it done. Patto said he’d take care of it and the part came back completely destroyed and unusable. After we caused a fuss, Patto sent a message to his contacts and found a replacement part in less than an hour. This was nice but left us wondering why he didn’t try this in the first place thus saving a huge headache.
-overall, the work was mediocre as we had a torn CV boot within a couple hundred kms due to incorrect assembly, the front brake parts were not sufficiently greased and needed service almost immediately, the alignment shop they took us to didn’t adjust the camber correctly and had to be redone. In the end we were there for 8 days when we should have been there for 1.

Unfortunately, we do not recommend it. Better to take a chance with someone else.

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Estivemos por duas semanas na mecânica do Patto, nos trocamos bastante coisas na Kombi e ele nos ajudou muito, deixando a gente trabalhar para não pagar tanto. Sem dizer que é um lugar seguro para estar, tem banheiro, ducha próximo e são pessoas muito amáveis. Só temos a agradecer e recomendar.

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We arrived at 12:00 at the garage because we had a problem with one of our break-disk on our Volkswagen T4. Patto was very friendly and helpful. He managed everything to organize new parts. It was a "wonder" because this model of Combi was not sold in Southamerica. In the evening everything was fixed and well done. We didn't feel like gringos or foreigners taking money out the pocket! He gives you the feeling helping a friend with all the friendly staff around. And that is the truth because it was very cheap. He repairs all type of cars and even other mechanics recommend Patto because he is a VW-specialist. Thank you very much my friend!

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Go nowhere else to fix your VW in quito, seriously. Patto is the man, has a wall of Kombi travelers stickers to his cred, loves talking and teaching, and while we were there saw his crew working on other kombis, beatles, and even a Thing. Clean shop, wifi, and a true part of the VW family.

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Si tienes cualquier VW Patto Sicha el mejor mecanico de VW de todo Ecuador. Super tecnico, muy profesional, con un muy buen equipo tecnico y sobre todo muy buena persona. Altamente recomendable. Cel +593999901132.

If you have any problem in your VW Patto Sicha is the better mechanical VW in all Ecuador. Very profesional, very technic, good team and good persons. High recomend.

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