Carma Repair

Carma Repair Diagnose. Verify. Repair. The Job Isn’t Done Until The Problem Is Solved. Monday through Sunday 8am
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Please send vehicle info and location with your first message. I cannot quote or schedule repairs from incomplete messages. Hi, I’m John Fischer 5th, the owner and lead mechanic of Carma Repairs. I’ve been passionate about working on vehicles my entire life and bring over 3 years of professional shop experience plus years of hands-on repair and maintenance across a wide variety of vehicles. I’ve w

orked in both independent shops and larger service centers, including time as a mechanic at Mavis Tire and as an emergency vehicle service technician. That background taught me the importance of precision, safety, and keeping vehicles reliable under pressure. After leaving the shop environment, I’ve continued repairing and rebuilding vehicles — everything from daily driver maintenance on my family's vehicle's,friend's vehicle's, to my truck's full engine rebuild, transmission service's, brakes, suspension, A/C, diagnostics, and electrical troubleshooting. With Carma Repairs, I bring the same professional service to you, conveniently mobile, so your car gets fixed where you are. I follow manufacturer torque specifications, use proper procedures, and provide clear inspections and documentation with every job. Whether you need routine maintenance, pre-purchase inspections, or more in-depth repairs, my goal is simple: to keep your vehicle safe, reliable, and running the way it should — with honesty and care. I know first hand the trouble's,time,upsell and unfair pricing at a shop and my main reason for this start up is helping those in need on a budget!

06/04/2026

Modern vehicle engineering in one picture.

2018 Jeep Compass valve cover tube seals — completely hard as a rock after only about 8 years of heat cycles. Oil filled the spark plug wells on cylinders 1 and 2 and was starting to contaminate the ignition coils.

Meanwhile, you pull apart some engines from the 80s and the original valve cover gasket is still soft enough to reuse.

Everything now is:

- plastic
- molded together
- thinner materials
- more heat
- more emissions systems
- more quick-connect everything

Years ago this would’ve been:
“replace a gasket.”

Now it turns into:

- oil-soaked ignition coils
- molded plastic valve covers
- integrated seals
- coolant assemblies instead of simple hoses

This is why diagnosis matters before just throwing parts at a vehicle.

Diagnose. Verify. Repair.

06/04/2026

Live from today’s mobile repair setup.

2018 Jeep Compass getting:

- Valve cover/tube seal repair
- Coolant hose assembly replacement
- Full coolant flush back to correct Mopar purple coolant
- Front and rear brake service

Already confirmed the coolant leak with a pressure test and found oil filling the spark plug wells from the leaking valve cover seals.

90° weather, canopy up, tools out, let’s get to work.

Diagnose. Verify. Repair.

Today’s setup.2018 Jeep Compass in for:- Coolant leak repair- Valve cover gasket / spark plug tube seal repair- Full bra...
06/04/2026

Today’s setup.

2018 Jeep Compass in for:

- Coolant leak repair
- Valve cover gasket / spark plug tube seal repair
- Full brake service
- Cooling system flush with correct Mopar-spec purple coolant

Customer originally brought it somewhere else for a “hose leak” quote that turned into a big estimate. Full inspection found the leak coming from a molded coolant hose assembly at the bottom of the reservoir, plus a major valve cover oil leak and worn brakes.

Mobile mechanic work isn’t just throwing tools in the trunk and hoping for the best. Full setup today:

- Canopy for the heat
- Air compressor for vacuum coolant refill
- Drain pans/cardboard
- Full parts loadout
- Scan tool/diagnostics
- Brake equipment
- Enough extension cords to power half the parking lot

Diagnose • Verify • Repair

06/02/2026

Dramatic improvement 👏

Getting the Avalanche A/C ready before the next heat wave.Today’s job is eliminating variables: replacing the failed ele...
06/02/2026

Getting the Avalanche A/C ready before the next heat wave.

Today’s job is eliminating variables: replacing the failed electric fan, improving the fan mounting/seal, and fixing a questionable A/C service port so the system can be charged and tested properly.

A/C diagnosis isn’t just “add refrigerant and hope.” Airflow, pressure, charge amount, and sealing all have to be right before you can trust the readings.

Diagnose. Verify. Repair.
No parts cannon.

05/29/2026

Quick live while I’m working on a 1979 Corvette. Starting with the rear brake service and showing some of the inspection/repair process. Not staying live too long — just a quick look at what goes into keeping an older car safe and road-ready.

Carma Repair
Diagnose. Verify. Repair.

Today was one of those jobs where the right diagnosis did not mean selling more parts.2021 Hyundai Tucson came in with a...
05/28/2026

Today was one of those jobs where the right diagnosis did not mean selling more parts.

2021 Hyundai Tucson came in with a check engine light, misfire history, and an intermittent stumble. Customer had already replaced a spark plug and moved a couple ignition parts around before I got there.

The easy answer would have been:

“Needs coils.”
“Needs injectors.”
“Let’s throw plugs at it.”

But that is not diagnosis.

I scanned the vehicle, checked the misfire data, monitored live counters, watched ignition values, road-tested it, inspected the plugs, changed the remaining plugs as a baseline, and used the borescope to look inside the cylinders.

The scanner was not showing a hard active misfire count while the stumble happened. That means I did not have enough proof to sell coils, injectors, or start guessing.

What I did find was more concerning: heavy sludge buildup around the oil cap/fill area, overdue/thin oil, and abnormal shiny speckled material visible on the piston tops during borescope inspection. Normal soot/carbon inside an engine is expected. What I saw was not something I was comfortable calling normal.

Since the vehicle may still be under Hyundai powertrain warranty, the right answer was to document everything, show the customer what I found, and advise her to bring the scan report, plug photos, and borescope video to Hyundai before spending money on unnecessary parts.

That is the difference between fixing cars and loading the parts cannon.

Sometimes the best repair is knowing when not to sell one.

Diagnose. Verify. Repair.
Carma Repair

05/28/2026

Found this on top of a piston today via the borescope camera 🙄🤔

05/25/2026

Quick follow-up on the 2500 Suburban vibration/parking brake diagnosis.

The main highway vibration was already traced to the rear driveshaft/U-joints and improved after the shaft was rebuilt and balanced. Today I’m checking the remaining rear brake/parking brake concern.

This truck has rear disc brakes, but the parking brake is a small drum-style shoe setup inside the rotor hat. The parking brake pedal was going to the floor and not holding, plus I heard scraping from the rear.

Once I pulled this rotor off, parking brake hardware fell out. That means the internal parking brake hardware came apart inside the rotor hat, which explains the scraping noise and why the parking brake wasn’t working properly.

Now I’m opening the other side to see if it’s the same story before ordering parts. This is why diagnosis matters — don’t just assume it’s a cable until the rotor comes off and you actually see what failed.

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