Family-owned shop in La Salle, serving Fort Collins
We are not around the corner from Old Town, and we will not pretend we are. We are the family-owned shop Fort Collins drivers make the trip to when they want a straight answer.
Kill Switch Automotive
107 N 1st Street, La Salle, CO 80645
Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM
From Fort CollinsTake I-25 south to US-34, head east through Greeley, then south on US-85 to La Salle. Plan on 35 to 45 minutes.
Trust is hard to find and easy to lose. When a shop recommends four things you did not ask about every visit, you stop believing any of them. We built our shop around the opposite: tell people what is wrong, what can wait, and what it costs.
That is worth a 40-minute drive to the folks who make it, even with a dozen results for mechanic near me sitting closer to home.
If you work in Greeley, at the plants east of town or anywhere along US-34, you already drive most of the way to us. Drop the car in the morning, get a ride the last few miles, and pick it up on the way home.
We are open Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM, which fits a commuter schedule well.
A day trip up Highway 14 into Poudre Canyon puts real heat into your brakes on the way back down. Then you get home to stop-and-go on College Avenue. That combination wears pads and glazes rotors faster than people expect.
We inspect and replace pads, rotors and calipers as part of our brake and general repair work, and we show you the parts we took off.
Newer cars are packed with modules and sensors, and an intermittent fault can stump a parts-swapping shop for weeks. We use proper scan tools and test the circuit itself before we replace anything.
Our automotive diagnostics are built to find the real cause the first time, so you are not paying for guesses.
Fort Collins drivers rack up I-25 miles fast: Denver trips, mountain weekends, the commute to Loveland or Greeley. Highway miles still count toward your service intervals.
We handle oil, filters, fluids, belts and tires as part of our scheduled maintenance service and tell you what your mileage calls for.
If your Fort Collins company runs trucks east into Weld County, a fleet shop on that side of the map can save you deadhead miles. Service the unit where the work is.
Ask about our fleet repair and maintenance accounts, scheduled on weekdays around your routes.
An expensive estimate deserves a second opinion. Bring the car and the paperwork. We will run our own diagnostic inspection and tell you whether we agree.
No pressure either way. If the other shop got it right, we will say so.
Big repairs are where honesty matters most. We find the actual failure, give you the options, and tell you plainly if the vehicle is worth fixing.
When it is, our engine and transmission repair is done right, by the same small crew who diagnosed it.
Because of the distance, we try to make one trip do the job. Tell us everything the car is doing when you call, and we will plan the visit so the work is done in one go when possible.
If you are due for an oil change or tune-up, add it to the same visit. Smart auto repair in Fort Collins sometimes means one bigger trip instead of three small ones.
Most Fort Collins customers come from the east side, Harmony Road and the neighborhoods near I-25.