Dunnigan calls get a person, not a queue.
From American Canyon, east on 80 past Vacaville. I-80, Highway 113 carry most of the trouble we get called to here. With row-crop and seed agriculture around town, the same handful of failures come up again and again. One call and Patrick is on the road.
- East on 80 past Vacaville
- Open 24 hours, seven days
- No hourly minimum
- Cars, trucks, farm and heavy equipment
Everything we do starts from American Canyon. For Dunnigan that means east on 80 past Vacaville. We come in on I-80, which is why we can tell you a window on the phone instead of asking you to wait and see. Cars, trucks, trailers, farm machinery and heavy equipment all get worked on where they sit in Dunnigan, which spares you the cost of moving something that was never going to need a workshop in the first place. Patrick has been doing this long enough to know which faults in Dunnigan are a ten minute fix and which are somebody selling you a tow. A Dunnigan call gets the same treatment whether it is a commuter car or a loaded truck: find the fault, price it, fix it where it sits.
What happens when you ring
You call
The phone goes to the mechanic, not a dispatcher reading a script. Tell us where in Dunnigan you are and what the vehicle is doing.
Agreed up front
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 set off
Usually I-80, which is the fastest approach at most hours.
Found, not guessed
Measured on the spot. Guessing at parts is how a small bill becomes a large one.
Finished, or a straight answer
Most of it is finished at the roadside. Where it cannot be, you get a straight answer about what happens next.
Practical detail
Booked work, not just breakdowns
Most people find us at the worst moment, but a fair amount of Dunnigan work is booked rather than urgent.
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 work behind the breakdowns
You can predict a lot about Dunnigan repairs from one fact: this is row-crop and seed agriculture country.
Add UC Davis 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.
That is why we ask what the vehicle does for a living before we set off, because a truck that runs loaded every day fails differently from one that sits five days a week.
The call is free
If you are weighing whether it is worth a call, that hesitation is worth addressing.
Asking is free, and a straight answer over the phone is often the whole service. We would rather talk you out of a job than sell you one you do not need.
Bigger than a car
A lot of shops will not touch farm machinery. We will, and in Dunnigan that is most of the reason the phone rings.
In practice that means tractors, gators, sprayers and the implements behind them, diagnosed where the machine is standing rather than after somebody has paid to move it.Which in this area means tractors, gators, sprayers and the implements behind them, and the awkward part is almost never the repair itself but getting a working mechanic to where the machine actually is.
Getting to you in Dunnigan
Ask where Dunnigan breakdowns happen and the answer is mostly I-80, which is also the road we arrive on.
Highway 113 and County Road network carry the remainder, and at certain hours they are the faster way in even when they look longer on a map.
Roadside work has one rule before any diagnosis: get the vehicle and the people in a position where traffic is not the biggest hazard.
The Dunnigan map
Around here
We cover the whole area around Dunnigan. The neighbors below come off the same runs.
Being close by is not the same as being quick to reach, so each of those pages gives the honest drive rather than a flat promise. I-80 decides most of it.
Or see the full Yolo County and the full service area.
What Dunnigan callers ask
Brief answers here. Patrick picks up for anything else.
How quickly can you get to Dunnigan?
East on 80 past Vacaville. You get a real window on the phone before we set out, based on what I-80 is doing at that hour rather than a number that sounds good.
Do you charge a minimum to come out to Dunnigan?
None. You are quoted for the work itself, agreed before anything starts, and a short job stays a short job on the invoice. That is deliberate: a minimum charge punishes exactly the early call that would have kept the repair cheap.
What hours do you answer?
All of them. The phone goes to the mechanic at two in the morning the same as it does at two in the afternoon, and that is not a voicemail promising a call back. The people who need a mobile mechanic most are rarely the ones calling during business hours, which is the entire reason the number is answered around the clock.
Can you work on row-crop equipment?
Yes. Dunnigan being row-crop and seed agriculture country is exactly why we carry what we carry. Cars and trucks are the baseline; farm machinery, heavy equipment and fleet vehicles are the rest of the week.
Do I need to get the vehicle somewhere first?
Not unless the repair genuinely needs a workshop. Paying to move a vehicle before anyone has diagnosed it is the most common way people overspend on a breakdown.
Do you charge more to come out to Dunnigan at night?
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.
Is there work you will not attempt on site?
Occasionally. When a Dunnigan job needs a lift or a press we say so rather than burning your afternoon proving it, and you keep the diagnosis either way.
One call from Dunnigan and we are moving.
No queue and no script. Call from Dunnigan, say what is wrong, and get a price and a time before anything is agreed.