Leonard's Automotive Service Center

Leonard's Automotive Service Center is an auto repair shop in Austin, Texas, serving drivers of most domestic and import vehicles. The shop handles scheduled maintenance and routine repairs alongside larger jobs: oil changes, air filter changes, fluid flushes, battery monitoring and replacement, tune-ups, brake repair and brake pad replacement, auto A/C repair, engine and transmission repair, diesel repair, exhaust repair, hybrid repair, fleet repair, timing belt replacement, and auto diagnostics, including check engine light and electrical system problems. Technicians are ASE Master-certified and the shop uses factory manufactured parts. It has been in business since 1972, and financing is available. Makes served include Chevy, Ford, Honda, Lexus, Nissan, Subaru, and Toyota. Hours are Monday through Friday, 7:30 am to 5:30 pm, and walk-ins are welcome.

The shop was founded in 1972 and operated for five decades before its founders retired in 2022, when the MacWilliams family purchased the business and continued it. Leonard's describes its approach as exceptional mechanical work paired with courteous customer service, and notes that its internal expectations have carried across two families and more than fifty years. Preventive maintenance is a focus, from routine oil changes that protect the engine from friction, heat, and dirt to factory-scheduled services that keep a vehicle's original manufacturer warranty intact. The shop also takes on planned periodic repairs, such as replacing brake pads before they wear past minimum safe thickness, and unplanned work, diagnosing problems accurately rather than guessing at a cause. A/C care is presented as a two-part practice: an annual check plus repair when a problem is suspected.

The shop sits on South 1st Street in Austin, about a tenth of a mile from St. Elmo Elementary School and roughly two-tenths of a mile from the Cathedral of Junk. The Sierra Ridge Community Center is about three-tenths of a mile away, and the Placidena and West Congress neighborhoods are each within about half a mile.

With more than a half-century of continuous service in Austin, Leonard's Automotive Service Center pairs long-standing local experience with ASE Master-certified technicians and factory parts for drivers across the city.