Is Your Check Engine Light On? If So Stay Away From AAMCO!

By Trisha Thompson (News 4) - MAR 2016

Aamco's sales promotion states that "we will check your engine light for free"; but will they? Many DC residents say that they were ripped off by AAMCO's deceiving sales pitch.

Watch the video and see what happens when you leave your car behind with Aaamco and why some customers, like Vince Pyle, say they feel duped

I took them at that commercial and at their word,” Mr. Pyle says

He says when the light came on in his 1997 BMW, he thought of the AAMCO commercial that says: "Check engine light on? We'll check it for free." According to Pyle, the definition of “free” is “it will not cost you a cent, a penny, a quarter.” But Pyle says the shop charged him $50 and told him, “If you let us fix the car, then we’ll wrap that fee into the price of the car repair.” Pyle explains he had to pay up for a printout that showed what the “free check” found. "It's not free information,” Pyle says. “It wasn't free."

To see what really happens when you take your car into Aamco, NBC 4 put hidden cameras inside, outside and throughout the car before visiting seven different AAMCO centers within the Washington Metropolitan area and what they discovered is very disturbing!