“We are always smoking busy, it’s never slow,” Rick Leginus says. “Most shops specialize in one aspect of car maintenance, but we do everything here. We don’t turn away any kind of job because there is nothing that we cannot do.”
Having started in the automotive industry at the age of seven with his father, Rick has been working on cars all his life. At the age of 11, he was pulling engine blocks out of caterpillars and dump trucks. At 13, he could pretty much do everything on his own. At 16, his father would leave the shop for a month at a time and Rick would run it.
“I was born into it,” Rick says. “Twelve to 16 hour work days aren’t strange to me. I started my own business from scratch after getting my tickets and went through further education as it became available.”
Less than three years after Rick moved to another company, he became a certified mechanic. After working for the company another four years and meeting everyone in the Port Coquitlam industry, Rick opened R & L Automotive and Performance in 1984.
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Honest, fair, knowledgeable, trustworthy, respectful and a man of integrity. Rick knows his stuff and will treat you well. He wont sell you anything you dont need. My family and I have been taking our vehicles to R & L Automotive for years as we wont trust anyone else with them. I am confident there is nothing he cant do or a problem he cant diagnose. He performs quality work at fair prices and goes above & beyond to satisfy his customers. I highly recommend R & L Automotive!
R & L Automotive is the only place that I will bring any of my vehicles for repairs. Rick L is an automotive genius !! I have a couple of classic cars that he has done work for recently & he made those tired old cars run perfectly like new again . He just last week rebuilt the carburator in my 1975 Dodge Dart Swinger with a slant 6 motor & now it absolutely drives like a new car . I also had Rick replace my heater core in that car . Not an easy job !!:-( R&L Automotive is the best !! :-)
I refer all of my family and friends to R&L. Their work is always of the highest quality, and you will always feel taken care of. This shop is a gem in the tri-cities. Worth giving them a shot, trust me, you won't be disappointed.
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