Gary's Small Engine Repair
Hardy, Hattiesburg, MS

Gary's Small Engine Repair Reviews

4.1 stars based on 49 reviews

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  Taylor Yuki

  5.0

  They are very helpful and there to help not just make money. Bought a residential mower and it's the best mower I've ever bought. Owner was very helpful answering questions I had and recommended the perfect mower for my yard size

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  newton (newt)

  1.0

  Sadly, I can not say anything good about this place. Needed a new engine on my professional grade walk behind mower. It was not a simple engine replacement because the original engine was no longer available. This meant a suitable new engine be selected. I asked specifically for a commercial grade engine with a throttle. I left the selection of the specific Engine up to the shop but I gave them the specifications for a specific Kawasaki engine with a throttle and correct RPM range that I had researched and found suitable with frame modification that could have required minor welding. I realized later that this shop is not a good place to take any job even a little out of the ordinary. They chose an unsuitable Kawasaki log splitter engine -- wrong RPM range and no throttle. An engine that would have retailed for about $300. They got it mounted but obviously never tried to use the mower because they would have had to run to keep up with it. The charge was $600 , which meant that they charged me about $300 for labor and pocketed the engine markup as as well. I would have been fine with the charge, had the mower been usable. It wasn't. I took it back immediately and asked the sour old guy that runs the place if it were possible to adjust the rpms down on the engine, and I mentioned that it would have been nice to have a throttle. He tried to tell me that none of the new mowers have throttles, and if it had a throttle it would overheat -- maybe that's true of the log splitter engine they tried to fit to it. He took about three minutes to adjust the RPMs down, a screw adjustment, and charged me another $20 dollars! to do it even though the adjustment was on a brand new engine he had just installed. The mower was still unusable. I eventually got time to put a suitable Briggs industrial grade engine on. The mower works great now but I'm out about $900 bucks. I do, however, have a virtually new Kawasaki log splitter engine on the shelf that I have no use for. I will never set foot in this place again. The guy that runs this shop seems to hate his job. I feel sorry for him, but I feel even more sorry for all those whose days he must have ruined over the years.

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  Chris Zimmer

  5.0

  I have a tiller that hasn't been started for at least 20 years. Of course the thing wouldn't start and it had a rather nasty fuel leak. I dropped it off about 30 minutes before Gary's closed. They called me by 9:30 the next morning. Tiller was fixed. It runs great.

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