Thompson Automotive Machine

"Old school machine shop not ran by crooks. If any one wants thier Polaris 850 engine rebuilt using speciality coatings from Cerakote and techno coat hit me up. I learned a lot off this build and would not mind profiting off my experience. My 2020 Polaris 850 highlighter is better than new. Bring me your engine Thompson's will be doing all the machine work. Wholetonmotors.com"

"Terrible place used them twice first time it took over three weeks to get my cylinder head back figured I’d give them another shot so let them do another cylinder head paid for a cleaning , resurface and to check valves to make sure everything was 100 percent. Picked the head up it was dirty they gave excuses saying it was old which is bs got home checked valves myself sure enough there leaking. For any consumer looking to have work done here stay clear of this place I wasted 200$ for nothing terrible place will never go back !"

"I took a small 4 cylinder diesel engine block and cylinder head to this machine shop for a complete rebuilt. It took a very long time for them to even get started on it. By the time they finally got to it (after several phone calls) they already started loosing parts. This was a big problem since this particular engine isn't in production anymore and parts are almost nowhere to find. First they lost the valve springs, then the main bearing caps. The default dialog always started by them insisting I never brought the parts in the first place. They did find the parts they had misplaced, most likely due to the extreme clutter they have in their shop. After I finally got the engine back I discovered during the assembly that 1 of the cam bearings was the wrong size. This engine has a total of 3 cam bearings, the front and middle are the same size, but the back one has a smaller inner diameter. I supplied all parts (new) to the shop and stressed about that they make sure the correct tolerances are verified. The cam bearings I supplied included the different sizes. Lucky for me I double checked after I installed the camshaft and found the problem. There was a 1 mm gap between the rear cam bearing and shaft lobe. If I had not caught this before I start the engine the results would have been catastrophic. The engine would never be able to built up enough oil pressure and may have seized up. After contacting the machine shop they offered to bring the block back so they can install the correct bearing. Never once did they feel faced by the fact that this sloppy mistake could have ended up in me loosing several thousand dollars in repairs. This machine shop was a 850.00 mistake that will never happen to me again. The machinists name is John (only know him by his first name). I highly recommend to stay away from this business. This was my first and last experience with this place. I would give it zero stars but that's not possible on here."

"Never have your work done here... They broke one of my pistons trying to press it off a rod. They didn't have the press set up right and it broke......... Now I'm out 200$ for a new set of pistons."