Gourmet Garage

Do not do business here. I was lied to on many occasions and was cheated out of $1,500 for work that was never done (I have all documentation). I considered taking them to small claims court but I live out of state and the time and effort to do so would make it only marginally worth it.\r \r I bought a used vehicle there in early 2010, a 1995 M3 that had been after-market tuned by Dinan. The super-charger had been blown by the previous owner. Tom (the owner) offered to rebuild the unit for $1,500 and I agreed. I paid for the car and the rebuild (mistake) and drove the car to my residence in Tennessee with temporary tags. He said he would send me the title and ship me the super-charger when completed (I would install it myself). After three months of no title and no S/C, only promises of ordered parts and partial work, my girlfriend called leaving a message that I was coming down. The title showed up the next day via FedEx. I went down the day after - he had done nothing at all. The S/C was still in pieces, in a box. I told him to give me the S/C and $1,000 back. He gave the box of parts and a check for $1,000 telling me not to cash it until he called. Well, as expected, he never called. Three months later I tried to cash it and it bounced.\r more

I purchased my first BMW from Gourmet Garage in 2009 and have been a happy customer since. I bought the car under warranty and almost hated to bring my car in for service to the BMW dealership downtown. Now that my car is out of warranty, I receive better technical service and better customer service through The Gourmet Garage. I will recommend this establishment to any one I know. Thank you Tom and The Gourmet Garage for everything. more

This garage also took advantage of us, After using them for about two years, we became suspicious when we picked our car up from having our break pads and rotars replaced. The car handled the same way as it did before we took it in. Also a service engine light had come on that was not on when we took it in. We immediatley took our car to another garage to find out not only did The Gourmet Garage not replace our rotars or break pads, the internal wiring had been messed with causing the light to come on. I would also like to add, that in the two years we used them, I was never offered FREE windshield wipers. For the two reviews that praise the Gourmet Garage, you are either friends or family of the owners or really gullable. I would suggest you take your cars to a reputable garage and have a diagnostic done it, but I'm guessing you are friends and family. Stay away from The Gourmet Garage. more

I have been doing business with the Gourmet Garage for well over 6 years and I have bought more than one BMW from the Gourmet Garage through out these years as well as sent tons of family and friends to the Gourmet Garage as well, and i cant express how pleased we have all been. The Gourmet Garage has very honest and straight forward employees, as well as very friendly. I have had several thousand dollars of work done on my cars as well as many that i have referred to the Gourmet Garage for service work and i as well as the ones i have referred have had excellent experiences. This is the best kept secret in Lexington SC. You will not be disappointed in any kind of way more

this post is ridiculous, this shop has been in business for 14 years, they have bmw master tech from fletcher bmw with over 15 years experience, a service manager that was the parts manager at bmw of columbia and these guys know more about bmw's than your tipical dealership, not to mention they have installed free wiper blades on my car numerous times, let me say that again FREE!!! so what your saying is they did good work on the thousands of dollars you spent BUT they screwed up your wiper blades, doesnt sound right to me and shouldnt to anyone that reads this, this review should be considered SPAM!! more

We spent thousands of dollars at this garage and trusted their work until my son went and had is windshiled wiper blades replaced. Gourmet Garage had replaced the previous wipers for us approximately two years ago (2009). My son took his 2000 740IL to Auto Zone to have new wipers put on, because the wipers Gournet Garage installed never worked properly. We were horrified to find out the wipers Gourmet Garage installed were not only the wrong size (too small), but were attached with black zip ties!!! I am so disgusted with this garage. Who knows what other shotty work they did to our cars. We took our cars there on a reccomendation of a friend even though the location was not convenient to our house, we thought we could trust them to do quality work. We will never use them again and will report to the BBB as well as get the word out about our experience. \r \r The previous review was obviously written by the Gourmet Garage, because if these guys really know BMW's, our wipers would have been the right size and not attached with zip ties! I love my BMW's and that is why I despise this place. I had to give this review one star, because zero stars was not an option. STAY AWAY! more

These guys really know BMWs...I took my car in for general service and ended up buying one of their Dinan5 540i BMWs. They do all the Dinan performance upgrades....if you like BMWs you'll love this place! Pros: Very good customer service Cons: Location a little hard to find more