Jdm Motors Charlotte | ᴊᴀᴘᴀɴᴇꜱᴇ ᴍᴏᴛᴏʀꜱ & ᴛʀᴀɴꜱᴍɪꜱꜱɪᴏɴꜱ | ꜱᴀʟᴇꜱ in
Charlotte (NC)

They lie about the mileage of the engines, they didn't inspire my confidence.

I bought an engine and Transmission from JDM for my Honda and the Communication was excellent !!! Even on a Saturday evening when I had a question I got a response!! Great customer service!!!! Highly recommended!!! Thanks again

Got a jdm ej25 for a 2012 outback that had blown head gaskets, I did the basics timing belts and gaskets swaped the upper oil pans so I could have the oil level sensor, motor was spotless inside, fired right up and ran great ,will do business again

Purchased a JDM FA20 for a customers 16 wrx. Engine was clean and presented great. Swap went on without any headaches. Intake, cam phasers and such swapped. Motor runs absolutely amazing and will be using JDM charlotte for all my future motors.

I bought a 1.8 Honda Civic engine. Runs great. They even delivered it that day. I recommend them for any used engine. Very friendly.

Real good guys work there … bought a 350z transmission. No programming, put it in my car and drove perfect … that says a lot right there most 350z are stubborn and want u to hook up a computer to fine tune . If u need engine or a transmission go here . I know I will next time, Picked it up Friday , now it’s Sunday and ready !

I have bought several engines from JDM Charlotte. All engines have been good and as described. They are always willing to assist as needed with loading and provide helpful tips on installation.

I came to these guys with my 2006 Infiniti G35 that had rod knock I bought an engine off of eBay had it sent to these guys they removed my old engine installed the new engine that was delivered transferred over my pulleys and took care of all my needs. He even replaced the clutch, rear main seal, valve covers and thermostat! It's rare to find someone who does a+ quality work and actually cares about the customer like they do. The contact Sam pay close attention to everything and made sure I knew what was going on every step of the way he even told me that if I have a problem to let him know and bring the car back and that he would look out for me I'm super glad that I came to these guys because they do quality work and stand by their product and the engine wasn't even theirs. The prices are super reasonable and I highly recommend them to anyone looking to buy an engine for any Japanese car. I've already told all my friends and I stand by these guys. If you have any engine problems or transmission problems I suggest you give him a call do yourself a favor 👍

Highly recommend! These guys have a great selection and no nonsense. Reasonable pricing and quality installation. I look forward to doing business with JDM Motors Charlotte again in the future.

Found these guys online was hesitant on ordering an engine after being scammed from another company. But after speaking to the owner he assured everything was fine. Paid for the engine an they shipped it within the same day. Upon receiving the engine it looked extremely clean from the inside out. Been 3 months without a single hiccup would order another one from these guys.

Brought my car here to get a "JDM engine and Transmission" and ended up with a Junk yard motor and Transmission that didn't last a week of me driving the car. Let me be clear about how this all played out. I wasn't going to leave a review but now I feel I need to. I took my car here and it sat for 3 months before anything was done to the car. After the install the engine leaked everywhere and the transmission would leave puddles in my drive way. This is how the car was giving back to me. Took it back once I found out it wasn't a "JDM motor or Tans" Like I was told. Sam gets involved and gets me a JDM motor and Trans. Gets it installed, calls me and tell me the car is ready. I get there and he proceeds to tell me that the car is smoking and recommends that I don't drive it. Telling me that the "Cat" is bad. I drives the car home with the car leaving a large trail of smoke behind me. Order the "cat" get it installed and the install shop states "Your Cat is good the motor is your problem". Couple of days later I sent Sam a video of the car smoking underneath the hood and in the video I said to him "I don't think this motor is any good" He responds back and tells me he will be out of town for a month and to check the pcv valve. Brought a new and it still smokes from the tail pipe. After all this waiting to get the car checked out from JDM the warranty has passed. And now they check the car to find out the motor isn't any good! WOW WHAT A SURPRISE..... But here is the kicker Sam is going to ask me how long the car was smoking?? YOU gave me the car back smoking and told me the CAT was bad!!! And that was FAR from the truth!! And now wants to charge me full price to replace it??? This was the worst experience I ever had with a company. All those Bad Reviews are true!!! Save yourself some time and money and find another shop that will not try to scam you! Update, please don't get on here and Lie about not selling me a engine and Transmission. Why would I come there for just labor that statement doesn't make sense. I purchased this Engine and Trans from JDM Engine INC and Tyler WAS working with there at the time. Don't try to distance your place from him now that he scam half of Charlotte. That's the type of people you have working there again look at the reviews!! Never once you just did only did the labor. Reviews don't lie maybe you need to check your invoice because you will not find one for no labor. LIES!!!

Ordered a Transmission was told I would have it by the end of the week. It took 2 full months to ever see it. So skip forward 1 week later transmission got installed and it's no good!!! Ok glad it has a warranty, YEAH RIGHT!! After multiple phone calls and text story after story 6 months later he has now decided to not answer my calls.i have been lied to and this man is a theif, read the reviews people!!! So I am currently out 800 or so and hoping local law enforcement gets to it soon enough people do not believe a thing this man tells you. You have been warned.

I want to put a great review in for this business but with some explanation. I have noticed some negative reviews in the recent past on this business and I think the common dominator is that this is not an easy business to be in right now. Labor is short and supplies are limited and cars are complex and can have many functional problems arise especially during and engine swap or replacement. I recently took my sons 1993 240 sx into this business and worked directly with Tyler on this project. It involved removing and rebuilding and entire engine from bottom up. I was able to have the engine removed rebuilt and reinstalled in my car. This was not an instant process because several other entities were involved. The first was supply chain for our special parts, the second was a machine shop that has its own schedule and list of problems and back flow. The third was available labor to reinstall the rebuilt engine. Like many of you out there today we want everything done now, done fast and done cheap and done well. None of these conditions apply to taking old worn out engines from cars and reinstalling less worn out engines back into the car without complications. Some how this business has been able to make this happen. I am not envious of the difficulty of this job. I think there needs to be a great reset on what we should expect when we are swapping used engines for used engines or even new engines. I will sympathize with Tyler on trying to sequence this on multiple cars for many customers. Like many of you I was mad when my car was not done in two weeks, but soon realized this was not possible. So my summary to everyone doing business with this scenario is you can ask for a few things on the list above but you cant have them all. If you want it done well and affordably you may have to roll with the shops schedule. If you want it done poorly and quickly just write a bad review for your mechanic and shop owner. We are all human beings trying to make a living and get our bad cars fixed. What I know about Tyler, Joseph and Ruddy is that they do care about your car and the success of doing business with you but they are not good at telling you how many road blocks they are going to encounter fixing your junk. Please show grace and give this business a chance and I think you might be surprised with a great outcome if your patient. If you expect perfect communication and a fancy office with a coffee machine and TV do not go here. If you want some one that knows how to swap your junk than this is the place.

I gave this repair shop $8900 for a Maseriti Engine with less than 28k miles that they never ordered from Diesel powered engines. The shop initially told me it would take a week or two to complete the work. They gave me excuse after excuse thru texts and phone calls until I actually went by the shop to check on the car after a month and half . The car appeared to have never been moved. There were spider webs underneath it. Tyler lied over and over. He stated I'm working on the new engine several times. It's on the lift. He ordered an engine seal and cam phaser for my new engine from the Maseriti. Tyler stated the part was in and he was working on the engine. I called Maseriti of charlotte and Diesel power engines. The Maseriti shop did not receive any call from Tyler, Rudy, JDM engines or Diesel Powered Engines. Diesel Powered engine stated they don't even sell this engine. I have a print out of an invoice from Diesel powered engine that Tyler sent thru email. Tyler cashed my check early July. The last lie that was told to me was that they ordered the wrong engine and they ordered a another one with more miles that what was initially discussed. The last time I went to the shop, Tyler called a rep to check the order status and the rep said there was no order place. Now I have to take this company to court to get all my money back. They're trying to offer half for no engine and no service. Here's another lie they told me. "we work on Maseriti" then saying they had to order parts to do the work. another lie, we ordered a battery for the car and we'll pull it on your bill. What I feel that company was trying to do was repair the engine that was already in the car and act like they installed another one. The car has a scratch that wasn't there and the power steering light is now on. Feels like the car was taken for a joy ride. I would not have known any of this if I did not drive to the shop and check on the car. I drove to the shop 4 times and they kept lying.

Over a month after my engine arrived with several broken parts, Tyler has lied to me about shipping replacement parts more than 6 times. I have been told the parts were being shipped when they clearly weren't. The motor that arrived was not the one shown in pictures. Both Tyler and another employee have done everything they can to get me off the phone and provided me with nothing. They have passed the buck on to the shippers who have made it clear to both Tyler and myself that they will not discuss the matter with me. This has gotten to the point where I have not received any of the call backs I was promised I would receive and now they don't even answer the phone when I call at all. Take your money elsewhere, there are plenty of more competent and respectable JDM engine warehouses on the East Coast.

I bought a F23A engine and transmission and it runs as a 0 mileage engine brand new. I am very happy Sam and his co worker will take extra measure to take care of you 100%. Customer service was top notch. I will definetely come back if i need another engine.

I saved almost $1000 compared to what my local shop was going to charge me to replace the engine in my daughter’s Civic. Communication was excellent and they finished on time. Great guys, great service and a business I highly recommend.

I would have given five stars, but they sent us home with the car speedometer not working and would not let us leave the car at the shop that day to get fixed. We picked up the car and took it back telling him the speedometer wasn't working. He told us to leave the car about 40 minutes. We left to go get a bite to eat. JDM called us and told us our car was ready and that he had to leave. When we picked the car up it in fact was not ready, the speedometer was still not working. He told us we could not leave the car outside of his shop. After alot of driving back and forth from our house to the shop it was finally fixed. The final result I am pleased with, but I do think they could have been alot more professional in how they handled things. In response to the reply from JDM...As I stated the final result I am pleased with, but it is true that the speedometer was not working when we picked it up and we immediately brought it back regarding the speedometer. We were then told to come get the car again. The speedometer was still not working. We had to then bring it back again regarding the same issue. This review is just that, a review. A review of my experience. Overall, I do think the way it was handled could have been better. All of my google reviews are honest and based on my experience alone.

Got a great price on my engine and installation. I drove with the engine across the country to California and encountered no issues. I highly recommend this place for engine/transmission replacement. No one beats their prices/quality.

Bought an engine from them and ended up needing a refund due to something that happened with the car that would have been receiving the engine. Restocking fee that was asked of me was quite high considering the engine was never even shipped, but after some negotiation, a reasonable fee was agreed upon. Had a little bit of trouble dealing with the owner of the shop, but the employee that processed my refund was incredibly kind and understanding. Overall, they had a great selection of parts and were ultimately able to fulfill the needs for my project, just simply didn’t work out for me.

They worked on my Nissan 240sx and did a great job have been driving the car for 8 months now and just bought an upgraded turbo! They have great prices and my engine has been perfect since the installation!

Picked up an ej205 long block non avcs due to rod knock on my usdm engine. I had my doubts based on some other reviews but the new engine is running smoothly, even better than usdm and the slightly higher compression helps with the lack of power when starting from stop. You will need to swap some things over from your old engine and need a tune. I recommend torqued performance e tune, it's been better than the jrtuned which was probably what killed my engine

Had these guys replace transmission and engine on 98 Honda Accord EXL on Aug.24th 2014 and it is still running great. I am overall glad, except for a noise from suspension when I go over hump which started as I was leaving their shop. They did not have hydraulic lift installed back then, so they had to be creative by using pallets and fork lifter. Update........ It is going 4th year since then and I have no problem whatsoever with engine and transmission. Two thumbs up👍👍

Bought a D17A1 from them, engine trans combo, looks phenomenal, throwing it in tonight, they sold me a low mile engine/ trans for what they sale for 1500 here state side. I priced all over at pick and pulls and checked all the backwoods junkyards, nobody could come near their prices. Sun and Ali are really fair guys. Told me if I had any issues they've got my back and their warranties are triple compared to the other JDM importers within 6 hours of my (27501). God Bless

Horrible service. Unorganized. They sounded like they know how to rebuild transmissions... took them 6 months to tell me that they can't rebuild my transmission. Did not pick up my phone calls when I call either. Always postponing. They are very persuasive... Although they did not charge me for taking it apart, but they didn't return all my stuff either. Once i received my transmission, I soon realize I was missing a lot of parts that I needed to swap over to the used transmission I bought. Called them and they just said it never came with the transmission and that was it. Had to find these parts myself. Nice people, but very unorganized.

Just was looking for a regular engine swap ...JDM 3.0 swap in a 1999 honda accord but i unfortunately fell into a nightmare. I called the owner tuesday morning asking about an engine i saw they were selling online and was qoute 400 for the engine and 700 additional fee for installation. Sounds ok so I brought my vehicle there that very same morning and was told by the owner the swap would start wednesday morning and be done by friday morning... still sound ok so i left my vehicle with them. They called me early wednesday morning and told me there was an issue they needed to address with me. Apparently the mechanic there tried moving my vehicle inside the shop with a fork lift and dropped my vehicle on its lower strut mounts and broke them along with my earlier new installed cv axles. Yeah i was pissed but i humbled and bought two new pair of cv axles from local auto store and two strut mounts from junk yard. I just wanted the vehicle done so i could just be done with them but what i did just wasnt enough...20 minutes after i left the owner called me and asked me to hold for the mechanic...ughhh!!! The mechanic then tells me my ac line was broken and that he didn't know how neither. Really??? Friday morning i went straight down there to see what was going on with my vehicle and there it was...parked in the loading dock area. I did a quick inspection and found out the mechanic also broke a line under my hood to my windshield washer fluid and bent my hood so it couldnt close properly. I walked in and spoke to the mechanic and he kept on with the same story...i dont know. Bad business. The owner was trying to be nice but evidently wasnt too concerned about what his mechanic did because i had already paid him for the job. I wouldnt say it was all the owner he tried but that mechanic was the worst. I wouldn't trust him not even around my daughters. I highly suggest any other company before this one but don't take my word for it. Try them yourself but please be aware about what i am saying before you consider this company..Their mechanic is indeed crooked!!! Be aware!

One of the worst places we have done business with. At first contact with this company we were told that the K24 swap in the EP3 would be a 4-5 day turnaround with a quoted figure as well. After about a week we contacted them and was told that the K24 that they supplied for the swap was bad and to sum it up this happen not once but the first 3 that were "installed" had issues. Finally they get a engine in and contacted us saying that it just had to be wired up. First off if they had previously installed other engines to find out they were bad they would have had the wiring done. After a month and a half the car was finally ready for pickup without being tuned (in which that was suppose to be done before pickup). On arrival the first thing that was noticed was the horrible exhaust job that was done in which we had to find another shop to correctly weld together the exhaust as well as a few other corners cut just to get the car running. Before we left we wanted to pickup the old K20 that was in the EP3 originally which also was agreed upon with before the car was dropped off. They could not locate the motor at the time for us to pickup but said that they would ship it out so we didn't have to drive back which still has not been done after 2 months of waiting. It took over 45 days to get the car back from what should have been a cut and dry swap since they did not tune it like they had promised. I would advise to not let this shop touch your car nor would I purchase anything from them with the expectation of any customer service. They ignored all aspects of us trying to contact them about the car and now are wanting us to cover partial shipping on the engine since the owner "wasn't thinking it was going to a residential address". There are many better options in Western NC as it goes for shops to have work done in and can promise that this shop will never see a dime out of many or any of our associates that we deal with in the community.