Salem Boys Auto

We can fix anything, except the crack of dawn

We can do everything between an oil change
and an engine change.

And if we aren't the best for your repair,
we'll refer you to who is.

Mark and Ranae were high school sweethearts at Tempe High School and married in 1974. Ranae worked at a local bank and Mark was a policeman. In 1979, two important things happened: their son Alan was born and Ranae and Mark quit their jobs and opened a gas station in an area just outside the Tempe southwest borders. Then two daughters, Alison and Andi were born a few years later.

Mark and Ranae worked the large 24 hour freeway gas station with repair bays until 1987 when the gasoline company tore the station down and created a convenience store without bays.

Mark and Ranae have made it very clear about the focus of Salem Boys. They identify your symptoms, find the single part that is causing your problem, then clean, adjust or replace that bad part. Sometimes, but not many, one part will make another bad. Like a bad injector will contaminate a spark plug, so sometimes, two things will need to be addressed.

If you are the kind of Customer who wants to bring your car in and authorize anything and everything that is proposed by the Service Writer, then hold the shop responsible for a blown hose or a bad AC compressor, you should not do business with Salem Boys. They are NOT in the sales business. They DO NOT inspect every car that comes in and write long lists of repair work that needs to be done. They simply don't have that time. Besides, they believe the owner should be involved in every aspect of the their car maintenance and should not pass that responsibility on to the shop.

That's doesn't mean Salem Boys has tunnel vision. They fix what you brought it in for and if they see something that needs to be addressed, you will be advised in a very low pressure, calm way. More times than not, you will see a small list, prioritized, of things you should get today, next week and in the future to allow you to budget your car repairs and maintenance.