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Shorty's Auto Repair
3851 Columbus Rd, Centerburg OH 43011, Knox County

About forty years fixing cars in Centerburg, and the web address on the listing is dead.

Shorty's Auto Repair has been on Columbus Road in Centerburg for about forty years. General mechanical work, the hard faults other shops give up on, and a price at the end that customers keep describing as fair. Call (740) 625-7571 and say what the car is doing.

40 years
In business at Centerburg
Mon to Fri
8:30am to 5:00pm
Fair price
The phrase in nearly every review
Knox County
3851 Columbus Road
What the shop does

General mechanical repair, and the jobs that turn out harder than they looked.

Every item on this list is here because a real customer review or a real business listing names it. Nothing has been padded out with the usual menu of services, because a repair shop should not be advertising work nobody can show it does. Anything not on here is a phone call, not a guess.

General Mechanical Repair

General Mechanical Repair

Customers describe it as a great mechanical shop with very knowledgeable people, and the word that turns up in nearly every review is honest. That is the whole business in one line. Ring (740) 625-7571 and describe the noise, the light or the leak.

Axles, Wheel Bearings and Driveline

Axles, Wheel Bearings and Driveline

A named review describes an axle, a wheel bearing and a wiper blade all sorted in the one visit, at a fair price. Front end and driveline work like that is the everyday bread and butter here.

The Hard Diagnoses

The Hard Diagnoses

One review calls out a very tough problem that this shop worked through, and several others say the same thing in different words. If somewhere else has already told you they cannot find your fault, this is a sensible next phone call.

Cars and Trucks, Older Ones Too

Cars and Trucks, Older Ones Too

A 1993 Ford F-150 shows up by name in a customer review. A shop that has been open forty years is usually comfortable with vehicles that are not fresh off the lot, and the reviews read exactly that way.

Wipers and the Small Stuff

Wipers and the Small Stuff

Not every job needs a lift and a week. Wiper blades get a specific mention in a review, which tells you small jobs are welcome here rather than treated as a nuisance to be squeezed in.

Lawn Mower Repair

Lawn Mower Repair

Listed in the shop's own directory entry under services, right alongside auto repair. Worth one phone call before you load the mower up and drive it to Mount Vernon.

How it works

How a repair here actually goes.

1

Call (740) 625-7571

Say what the car is doing and when it does it. A noise on a cold start and a noise at highway speed are two completely different problems, and saying which saves everybody time.

2

Bring it in on a weekday

The shop runs Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm, and is closed Saturday and Sunday. There is no weekend cover, so plan around that.

3

Get told what it actually needs

Reviewers say the same thing over and over, that he is not the type of mechanic who will try to sell you repairs you do not need. That is the single reason people keep driving here.

4

Pay a fair price

Fair price is the most repeated phrase across this shop's reviews, going back years. Not cheapest, fair, which is the one that matters when the job is done properly.

About us

Forty years in Centerburg, and almost none of it is findable online.

Shorty's Auto Repair sits at 3851 Columbus Road in Centerburg, in Knox County, and its business listing puts it at about forty years in business. Willis Ellis runs it. The reviews are the good kind, the ones that talk about being treated like family and about a mechanic who will tell you when you do not need the work, rather than the ones that talk about a coupon. There is even a shop dog that the parts delivery drivers keep bones in the truck for. What the shop does not have is a working website, so none of that reaches anybody searching on a phone at half past eight in the morning with a car that will not start.

General mechanical repair on cars and trucks
Axles, wheel bearings and driveline work
Diagnosis on faults other shops have already given up on
Wipers, small jobs and everyday maintenance
Lawn mower repair, listed alongside auto repair
Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm, closed at weekends
About forty years at the same address in Centerburg
Shorty's Auto Repair

Hours

Monday8:30am to 5:00pm
Tuesday8:30am to 5:00pm
Wednesday8:30am to 5:00pm
Thursday8:30am to 5:00pm
Friday8:30am to 5:00pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed

These hours come from two independent business listings that actually agree with each other, which is better than most small shops manage online. Even so, a shop this size can have everybody out on a road call or under one car all morning, so a quick ring on (740) 625-7571 before you drive over is never a wasted minute.

Find us

3851 Columbus Rd, Centerburg, OH 43011

The shop is at 3851 Columbus Road in Centerburg, in Knox County, on the main road through town. Worth knowing before you set off, one listing prints the number as 3941 rather than 3851, so if your map app puts you in the wrong driveway, ring (740) 625-7571 and they will point you the right way.

(740) 625-7571

Get in touch

Tell us what it is doing.

A noise, a light on the dash, a pull to one side, something that started right after you hit a pothole. Describe it in your own words, there is no wrong way to say it, and somebody will come back to you. Or skip all this and ring (740) 625-7571.

No honest shop prices a repair before it has looked at the car, so you will not find a price list here. What the reviews do say, consistently and for years, is that the number at the end is fair and that you will not be sold work you did not need.

Ask about a repair

What the car is doing and roughly when it started is plenty to go on.

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