Reviewed : 04/20/2026
Comment : I must first provide some context. I always was just a working man in the Building Trades. I told them up front I don't expect the unreasonable, I don't expect the impossible, I don't expect anybody to work for me for free. I only expect a fair deal and honest guaranteed work. I got it. I can't do this review in a 20 second sound bite. This is not a luv luv kiss kiss syrupy quickie conflict of interest review or some stinking paid review. I am in my 70s with two older vehicles. I live in Friendswood since 1972, I used to do a lot of my own mechanic work when I was much younger, still have all my tools. I listened to all the best expert car repair radio shows in Houston throughout the years. This long-time stand-alone independent shop didn't/ don't / won't, get a mention from the Houston radio car repairs expert shop shows, any acknowledgment, except for a few CLAS callers customers blurting it out on the air without asking permission. Why? You tell me. Seems to me, in my opinion: jealousy?, competition? EVEN, with me calling off-air asking, and callers directly asking them on air to recommend a really good shop in the DEADZONE southeast Houston area, when the shows knew dam well ALL about CLAS.? Believe me, I have been around the block. This shop stands on its own history and word-of-mouth and return-customer business. CLAS stands on its own, doesn't need their validation, doesn't need to be a member of their radio show clique club auto-product-sales-club, doesn't need them. I don't give reviews, ever. Try to find one. This is the exception. This shop has done several very tough jobs for me in the last 3 years. Jobs that other shops (big names) wouldn't do, wouldn't touch, couldn't do, can't even do in my opinion. This shop also exposed and fixed all kinds of serious bad work done on my vehicles that my previous long-time shop near Fuqua was responsible for doing. Criminal almost. Clear Lake Auto Service inspected, diagnosed, recommended, estimated, located and procured all kinds of hard-to-find parts for my vehicle's repairs and made it all seem effortless. I've never seen such an impressive independent shop as this one that's so much like the biggest name expensive expansive new-vehicle-only 40 million dollar auto dealership of days-gone-by, this independent shop that has/ exceeds in comparable professional service and? services and techs with such quality work and customer care and even has a shuttle service. I have been with them several years now. My friend David A. has been with CLAS many more years than me. While I can choose among hundreds of other shops in my local area and beyond, Clear Lake Auto Service is exclusively my shop and my only shop, period the end. My present Service Advisor on my last 3 big tickets of work on my old Suburban is Tim Nicoladis. I felt bad watching him working as hard as he could through his lunch period to give me the 3 different detailed very itemized tickets for back-to-back work that I wanted, so I could examine them and then pay up and go home to eat MY lunch. Work nearly all of which CLAS had done while I was down for surgery and then 28 days recuperating. I was allowed to seriously inspect all the work, up on the rack, under the hood, and otherwise, and test drive it myself. Kudos to Robert Sexton and his entire team and every last very valuable team member. Keep in mind, I don't review on a quickie limited boiler-plate scale, or review from limited scope multiple choice.? And I could not do in 20 words or less a free-form review that would do this shop justice. This is the highest recommendation I know how to give:? Clear Lake Auto Service is exclusively "my auto repair shop". -Fred G., Friendswood, Tx