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Located in Lakewood, Washington, Randy Harkins, a former Army sergeant, was in business for 15 years as Ace Automotive. In those 15 years, he had the privilege to give honest repair service and share auto repair advice and expertise with thousands of satisfied customers. Even though his repair shop is no longer operating, he is pleased to be able to continue offering the same high level of honest auto repair advice you have come to depend on.

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"Ace automotive fixed my car when no one else could. It was like magic!" Patti

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"Thanks a million! I was up and running again 5 minutes after getting off the phone with you. You were right on the money, it was the theft deterrent system. ... Once I disarmed the system manually with the key, the fuel injectors were back "on" again and the car started on the first try. ... Thanks again for the great service." - John

"I had a couple of problems with my 01 Grand Prix GT. First Randy helped me with a strange dilemma, I had a no crank condition, and when I turned on the ignition with a battery charger attached all kinds of strangeness ensued, the speedometer would instantly go to around 30, the driver information center would flash repeatedly at great speed, and the chime would sound different. After much painful troubleshooting randy suggested I have the battery checked, which I did, and it checked out as good. So I re-installed the battery, and voila the car started up without incident. Turns out I had what Randy called invisible corrosion, the cables looked fine, but there was an invisible layer of corrosion between the terminals and the cables. Learned a lesson that it's always best to clean your cables and battery terminals first when you have a electrical issue. The second thing Randy helped me with was a rough idle condition. The car ran fine at every speed but idle, where it surged between stall, 250/800 rpm. Randy suggested it sounded like a vacuum leak. I checked all hoses and all checked out good, then I inspected the throttle body and intake manifold. On the 3800 series 2 engine the intake manifold is separated into 2 parts, upper and lower. There is a gasket between these, and as I detected an increase in rpm when I sprayed brake cleaner around the fuel rails, I decided it would be worth a shot to replace the gasket between the lower intake and upper intake manifold. The lower is aluminum, and the upper is a plenum made out of some sort of plastic material. When I had the intake off the car I discovered about a pencil sized hole in the plastic intake directly behind where the throttle body mounts to the intake. Have no Idea how it got there, but repairing that hole and replacing the gasket made all the difference in the world! Runs great now! Randy was a pleasure to do business with, and he went the extra mile to help me get through this. I have a degree in automotive technology, and I needed help. Randy has the experience, and has seen if not it all, most things." - Ken

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