The mechanic who drives to Dublin instead of towing it away.
From American Canyon, down the East Bay shoreline. Most of what we answer in Dublin is on or near I-80, I-880. With port and industrial waterfront around town, the same handful of failures come up again and again. One call and Patrick is on the road.
- Down the East Bay shoreline
- Open 24 hours, seven days
- No hourly minimum
- Cars, trucks, farm and heavy equipment
The honest answer about how quickly we reach Dublin is geography: down the East Bay shoreline. The route in is I-80, so an arrival window we give you over the phone is a real one rather than a number meant to keep you holding. Cars, trucks, trailers, farm machinery and heavy equipment all get worked on where they sit in Dublin, which spares you the cost of moving something that was never going to need a workshop in the first place. It also means we know where in Dublin a vehicle can safely be worked on and where it cannot, which matters more than people expect. Most Dublin jobs are finished in a single stop, because guessing at the fault from a phone description is how people end up paying twice.
From your call to a working vehicle
First contact
No call center in between. Say whereabouts in Dublin you are and what it is doing, and you are talking to the person who will turn up.
We price it
Cost and timing settled before we move. Where the repair is not worth the money we will tell you that instead of driving out.
We drive to you
Usually I-80, which is the fastest approach at most hours.
The diagnosis
We find the actual fault before anything is replaced, which is the part most roadside outfits skip.
It gets fixed or it gets a plan
Most jobs end with you driving away. When one does not, you know exactly why and what it needs.
Equipment, not just vehicles
Heavy equipment is where a mobile mechanic earns the description, because moving it to a workshop is the expensive part.
In practice that means excavators, loaders, skid steers and compressors, diagnosed where the machine is standing rather than after somebody has paid to move it.Which in this area means excavators, loaders, skid steers and compressors, and the awkward part is almost never the repair itself but getting a working mechanic to where the machine actually is.
Practical detail
The work behind the breakdowns
What a town does for work decides what breaks in it. In Dublin that means port and industrial waterfront, and the failures follow from it.
Add warehouse and forklift fleets to that and you get vehicles that work hard on a schedule somebody else set, which is exactly the situation where a breakdown costs more than the repair.
So the van is packed for what this area actually breaks, rather than for an average that fits nowhere and leaves you waiting on a second trip.
Booked work, not just breakdowns
Not all of this is roadside. A good share of what we do in Dublin is arranged in advance.
Routine servicing, inspections and the catch-it-early repairs. The advantage of a mobile mechanic is that the vehicle keeps working while it waits for its slot.
The call is free
If you are weighing whether it is worth a call, that hesitation is worth addressing.
The call costs nothing. If it is something you can safely drive on, we will tell you that and you can get on with your day. If it is not, you have found out before it became a tow and a much larger repair.
I-80 and the streets either side
I-80 is the spine of this. It is how we get to you and it is where a good share of the breakdowns happen, because it is the road everything in Dublin uses.
Off that, I-880 and I-580 take the rest. Knowing which of them is moving at a given hour is the difference between a thirty minute arrival and an hour of it.
Before a tool comes out we deal with position and visibility, because most of the danger on a call like this is other drivers.
The Dublin map
Nearby, and just as quick
If you are just outside Dublin, one of these is probably nearer to you.
If you are between towns, call anyway and describe the nearest junction. We would rather work it out on the phone than have you guess which page to read.
Wider still, the whole of Alameda County and the full service area.
What Dublin callers ask
Short answers. The phone is faster if yours is not here.
How quickly can you get to Dublin?
It depends on the hour, and we will tell you honestly. Down the East Bay shoreline. That window is what we plan around, not a promise made to end the call.
Do you charge a minimum to come out to Dublin?
No hourly minimum. A ten minute fix is billed as a ten minute fix, which is the whole point of the way we work. The alternative, charging a block of time regardless, teaches people to wait until something is genuinely broken before they pick up the phone.
What hours do you answer?
Every hour there is. The late calls are a real part of the work rather than something we tolerate, which is why somebody actually picks up.
Can you work on port equipment?
Yes, and it is a large part of the work here. Port and industrial waterfront means machinery that cannot easily be moved, which is the case a mobile mechanic exists for.
Do I need to get the vehicle somewhere first?
No, and it is worth saying plainly because people assume otherwise: the van carries the work to the vehicle, not the other way round.
What does an after-hours Dublin call cost?
Same rate, whatever the hour. We would rather you called at three in the morning than sat on a shoulder until sunrise trying to avoid a fee.
What happens if it cannot be fixed in Dublin?
Occasionally. When a Dublin job needs a lift or a press we say so rather than burning your afternoon proving it, and you keep the diagnosis either way.
Dublin, day or night.
No queue and no script. Call from Dublin, say what is wrong, and get a price and a time before anything is agreed.