My Car Guy

Sep 5th, 2022

I had the pleasure of doing business with Dave Sutch in June of 2021. I purchased a vehicle from him and he worked with me on getting the best price and answered all questions that I asked of him. I would 100% purchase from him again in the future for he made my buying experience worry free. My purchase was a 1969 Buick Riviera.
Oct 5th, 2021

Thank you very much to you and David for taking on the chore of helping my favorite and longest lasting car to find a good  home.  Using your services enabled me to get a higher price than I imagined which covered the costs of your services and resulted in my getting the net price I had hoped for.  It was not only painless, but well worth it.  Thanks for your professionalism and very prompt work to make the sale.
Mar 7th, 2021

TLDR; Old school skeezy used car salesman with a heinous shop/mechanic uses cheapest parts available and lies in his online ads.Let me save you the read: - Photos in online ads are not actually the car you're buying.- NEVER use MyCarGuy-SF.com for a remote purchase.- Think hard before working in person with Dave Sutch / MyCarGuy-SF. - DO NOT let his shady mechanic touch or inspect/vouch for any car. - DO NOT let Dave Sutch / MYCARGUY-SF guilt you into the "warranty he already prepaid when the previous buyer fell through." Here's the story. I was deployed in the middle east during the summer / fall of 2021. Needed reliable transportation when I got home and found Dave Sutch / MyCarGuy-SF selling a low mile car that he raved about. I was skeptical, but reliable used / new cars were impossible to find in SoCal in the short window available to figure out reliable transportation. After reading his yelp & google review history and giving him a mulligan for Daniel P's 1 star write-up I decided to give him a call. While I discussed the car with him, he came off as very forthright and open about the condition as well as some minor flaws he didn't want me to be surprised by. He even took $500 off the asking price to repair a dent in the car that wasn't shown in the photos. Things were going swell! We agreed on the price and I got wiring instructions from his dealership. That's when he slipped in the cherry about the "warranty he already prepaid for another customer who fell through" and then casually mentioned that the warranty would be on top of the full price offer we'd already agreed on for the car. In hindsight, I should have run as fast as I could in the other direction at the first sign of his old school shyster car salesman tricks, but again, I had one hour a day to find a reliable car to support me once I got home and so many reviews come across as positive and glowing. Maybe they're fake, who knows. I didn't run,...Dave's depiction of the flawless car, his attestation of how good the workmanship of his personal mechanic was and the fact that he'd personally driven the car over 600 miles all won me over.Skeezy Dave's top 4.1. Right as I finalized the wire to him for the purchase he  casually mentioned there was a "little yellow paint" on the engine cover he hadn't been able to clean off yet and that he'd used a stock photo of the engine compartment in his ad. The truth is that the engine compartment was trashed & no one would ever have bought this car if he'd used a real photo of the engine, which was way beyond "a little cleanup".  Looks like someone put a can of silver spray paint in a kindergartener's left hand and a can of yellow spray paint in their right hand, then blindfolded the poor kid then and left them alone with the motor until the cans were empty. Also, while trying to figure out who did what to the engine I came across some real quality workmanship by his mechanic.... all the engine mounts were wrapped in multiple layers of electrical tape to keep vibrations down. (if you're not a car guy/gal, electrical tape is not the preferred method of fixing engine mounts). The brand new replacement struts and springs they installed are so cheap that to keep the car from bottoming out we are going to need to replace the entire suspension AGAIN. 2. The car showed up a week late, filthy and covered in grime/pet hair. Gross!3. After sending the money to his dealer account, we started working through the title details. That's when he mentioned that the vehicle had actually been titled in his name (not as a dealer) so it would come across as a direct transfer but the whole thing should be transparent to me. Here I am past the point off no return, money's in his account and suddenly the details are changing (surprise!). Not a big deal until i let him know about the problems we were having with the car, and our disappointment with his dealership.  Suddenly it was a "private sale," not subject to CA buyer protections.4. After about 50 miles of driving it was pretty apparent this car had transmission issues, turns out this is known issue for the model and a simple fix IF YOU DON"T LIE ABOUT IT AND HIDE IT. On our first drive as a family it broke down in downtown SD, then we had to limp-mode it home on the 5 to the OC. This is when I learned about what a shitty warranty Dave sells. For $1900 dollars, the warranty company provides up to 7k of coverage. Of that, up to 2k can be used for transmission repairs. Rebuilt transmission on this car? 3.5k. Labor to remove / reinstall? another 1.5-2k (verified with a Volvo dealer and an independent mechanic. So best case the warranty will leave you with an out of pocket expense of 2.5k on a transmission. NOT WORTH IT!I've had the car six weeks now, it's been in the shop over 5. $7k of work to fix. Dave Sutch / MyCarGuy-SF.com are unwilling to work with us in any way ...no support whatsoever. Don't repeat my mistake, Stay Away :)
Nov 30th, 2021

For a couple years, I was looking for a nice old pickup.  In two hours after contacting My Car Guy, he identified one.  Later that day, I owned it. Couple days later, I drove it home.  The truck was in Texas. Not surprisingly, there are more pickups in Texas than the Bay Area, and the law of supply and demand worked in my favor -- even with car transport fees.  Looking in Texas never occurred to me, and even if it had, I would not have been able to execute on it.  The 45-year-old truck is in great shape, and I feel like I got a very good buy.Dave knows cars (and trucks), and was able to steer me (so to speak) toward a vehicle I really like.  He managed all the details of transport and registration.I would use him again in an heartbeat.
Mar 13th, 2019