Mobile Mechanic in Surfside Beach and Garden City, SC

A quieter stretch, and mostly residential work

The south end is different from the strip. Most of what we do around Surfside, Garden City and Murrells Inlet is straightforward residential work: brakes, batteries, oil and maintenance, suspension, and the check engine light that has been on for two weeks.

It also means driveways rather than parking decks, which makes it some of the easiest work to do properly. Room to get around the car, somewhere flat to put stands, and no time pressure from a lot attendant.

What we get called for down here

Brakes and suspension on cars that spend their lives on Business 17 and the roads either side of it.
Batteries and charging faults, especially on vehicles that sit for stretches.
Diagnostics before a repair, so nobody pays to replace a part that was fine.
Maintenance at the house rather than a lost morning at a shop.
Roadside repair on 17 Business and 17 Bypass, any hour.

Golf carts share these roads, and that changes braking

Surfside and Garden City have a lot of low speed traffic mixed in with regular traffic, and drivers here brake more often and more suddenly than the mileage on the odometer suggests.

That shows up as brake wear that does not match the miles. If your pads seem to be going faster than they should for how far you drive, that is usually why, and it is worth having them checked before the rotors get taken with them.

What we do here