When a customer is unhappy with a repair, an honest mechanic does one of three things: explains the work, fixes it, or refunds it. What David Tyson did instead — in writing, straight to the customer's phone — is one of the most self-incriminating exchanges Ethical Mechanic has ever published. He didn't need to be investigated. He told on himself.
The Job
David Tyson presents himself as a mobile mechanic in Jacksonville, Florida, soliciting customers through the Jacksonville Mobile Mechanic & Auto Repair Facebook group — a group already under scrutiny for facilitating scams against consumers.
An older woman hired him for a window-regulator repair on her 2002 GMC 2500 HD. She came away believing she had been ripped off, and said Tyson runs his operation off the books — no workers' compensation coverage, no taxes. When she raised that with him, he didn't reassure her. He unloaded.
He Told On Himself
The screenshot below is Tyson's own side of that conversation. It speaks for itself.
He opened with mock-politeness — "Been nice talking to you, message me anytime you need to vent" — then brushed her off by claiming "30 years of customers," insisting she and "the one other chick" were the only people who had ever complained.
Then came the part that should end the conversation for anyone thinking of hiring him. In his own words:
"Absolutely none of that, and I just got released from jail, look up my over 100 arrest for fighting and driving without a license daily I don't give a shit about police, the state, the government or your busted ass old truck."
And when the customer warned that she would tell people on Facebook what had happened, Tyson's reply was simply:
"Do you bro idc" — do it, I don't care.
Believe Him
Ethical Mechanic did not dig this out of a courthouse. David Tyson volunteered it. He chose, on his own, to tell a paying customer that he had just gotten out of jail, that he had been arrested "over 100" times, and that he has no regard for the police, the state, the government — or her vehicle.
We are not asserting the arrest history he describes; we are reporting what he said. And honestly, the exact number doesn't matter. The relevant fact is simpler and more useful to a consumer: this is how David Tyson chooses to present himself to someone who trusted him with a repair and her money. When a service provider tells you, in writing, that he doesn't care about accountability and doesn't care if you warn others — believe him. That is not a hint to read between the lines of. It is a plain description of how he operates.
The customer did one thing exactly right: she kept the messages. That screenshot is the only reason this is on the record instead of being her word against his.
If you are hiring a mechanic out of a Facebook group, do the same — keep every message, never pay in full up front, and if a provider talks to you the way Tyson talked to this customer, walk away before money changes hands. He has told you who he is.
See the case file: /scammer/david-tyson
This article is based on a customer's account and a message screenshot the customer provided to Ethical Mechanic. Statements attributed to David Tyson are quoted from his own messages to that customer; Ethical Mechanic does not independently assert the arrest history he describes — we report what he chose to say. If you have information about this case, or believe any detail here is inaccurate, contact us through EthicalMechanic.org.