American & ImportAutomotive

Skagit Valley's Honest Auto Repair Shop

One shop in Mount Vernon, serving drivers from Burlington to Sedro-Woolley to Anacortes — with the kind of straight answers that are getting hard to find.

Truck on the lift inside American & Import Automotive, an auto repair shop serving Skagit Valley

Built for how Skagit Valley actually drives

The valley is hard on vehicles in its own particular way. Commuters stack up I-5 miles between Mount Vernon, Burlington, and Everett. Farm trucks and work rigs live on gravel roads and field edges east of Sedro-Woolley. Anacortes cars ride salty ferry-line air, and every spring tulip season fills the back roads with stop-and-go traffic that cooks brakes and clutches.

José Camacho sees all of it at his shop on Riverside Drive in Mount Vernon: brakes and suspensions worn by back-road washboard, timing chains stretched by long commutes, heater cores dead before a wet valley winter, and box trucks that can't afford a week of downtime. He fixes American and import vehicles alike — it's in the name — with a Honda dealership background and a habit of showing you the worn part before he replaces it.

No service writers. No upsell quotas. One mechanic, a straight price before any work begins, and answers in English or Spanish — whichever you prefer.

★★★★★Yelp
Jose is a terrific, high level technician and mechanic. I have some unique autos and he handles all of them with precision and care. He's also extremely fast and always communicable. His shop isn't flashy but Jose is among the best mechanics in Skagit County.
Elex B.Read on Yelp

— a verbatim Yelp review. Every review José has, on every platform, is five stars. Read them all →

Every service, every town in the valley

One call. A straight answer. (360) 540-4237.

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