About Community Automotive Repair - Grand Rapids, MI

Our Mission

It is our mission at Community Automotive to delight our customers with automotive expertise, excellent service, and thorough communication as we partner with them in the caring of their automotive related needs. Our auto repair shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is dedicated to providing the best care drivers can find in the area! Honesty, integrity, and respect will drive our relationships with our customers and employees and permeate all we do. We invite you to stop by our shop today at 846 Fulton Street East to meet our team and get to know us. We're sure you'll feel immediately comfortable and welcome with our experts!

Our History

Community Automotive Repair was birthed out of a faith-based group formerly referred to as "The Community" in 1975. Current owner Richard Zaagman repaired vehicles owned by members of The Community in the early 1970's, growing his support and skills. Members of this group became the first Community Automotive Repair employees, motivated by a collective agreement to trade their time for minimum wages, so most business profits could be poured back into the local neighborhood. More specifically, it was important to those in The Community to care for families who had the greatest need. Those with the shared vision and mission came together to make Community Automotive Repair the successful shop it is today! And although The Community does not exist as it did decades ago, their efforts to transform a backyard garage into an 8-bay Bosch Authorized Service Center are evident in our success. We now operate with 12 bays.

We Work On All Makes & Models

Our specialties are minor and major repairs and factory scheduled maintenance on most import and domestic vehicles. We rarely turn somebody away for owning a vehicle we cannot service. Some examples of the cars and trucks we routinely work on include but are not limited to Audi, VW, BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, Jaguar, Land Rover, Subaru, Honda, and Toyota. While we are not an exclusive foreign car facility, we do specialize in import makes and they make up a majority of the vehicles we see in our service bays. Bottom line, your Chevy, Ford, Dodge, and their domestic counterparts are more than welcome here!