I regret ignoring my intuition, if the shop looks like $h!t from the outside its for a reason folks! This shop could honestly give a crap about its quality, frankly, I'm surprised they are still in business. My experience as follows. (Bare with me, it's a lengthy review) Reason for going: Installed header and new used oem cat-back, needed flange welded to muffler so i can finish proper install. Experience: Less then friendly customer service which ive come to find is pretty common with shops. After wasting my time explaining to this imbecile owner how the prior owner installed incorrectly and telling him what i wanted/goal. He responds rather short and says he needs to look at it first. I make an appointment and drop the car off and he says he'll call me after looking at it. I get no such call, ever. I finally call and he says come pick it up. I go to shop, met by a lady at the front (Rude asf), guy is no where to be found. I go outside and look at the work. I noticed my side skirt popped off the clicks, i look at the job...w Would you believe this moron cut my new pipe and welded the damn muffler on....the exact thing i said not to do. Im fuming at this point because if i wanted the damn oem pipe compromised I would of saved the $200 and cut and sleeved the damn thing myself! There's more... I get in the car and notice that my door card is scuffed and my steering wheel is greasy. Mind you i know my car is not in immaculate condition but have some respect. I start the car and it sounds like crap! I can hear an exhaust leak, I put my hand around the weld and feel the exhaust leak. Conclusion: Dont ever take your car to this guy unless you are a fan of being ripped off! Sh*t quality, matching customer service. After going through all the hell to find the parts and install them myself to have this guy do this to me, I hate the guy. *tried uploading photos but keeps failing. read more

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Honest, reliable and affordable! Dan is the best! I drive 40 minutes to take my vehicles to Abate Auto.

If I could give ZERO stars, I would. I had brought my vehicle to Abate Auto Sales for something I thought was a minor coolant leak in my reservoir, which after explaining my problem to the woman at the front desk, she had also agreed either that, or a leak in a hose... Come to find out, after they had my vehicle for a little over a day, I get a phone call saying it was a "Blown Head Gasket" (and some other issues I had already knew about). After getting a $3400 bill, I had brought my car to someone whom works on A LOT of cars just to get a second opinion, and had also confirmed that my head gasket was completely FINE and it was indeed just a crack in my Coolant Reservoir. The point of this review is basically to let everyone know that this business rips people off and to BE CAREFUL who you trust working on your cars--this is supposed to be a very well-known auto business and I'm very grateful that I had NOT let them work on my car. SMH. read more

sold me a car knowing it was unreliable. I left my old car in dans lot after purchasing a vehicle from him until I was able to locate the title and have him compensate me for it by knocking money off what I was paying for the car I bought from him. dans tenant renting out his back shop stole my car out of the parking lot, crashed it and it is now nowhere to be found. Dan willingly gave away the keys to that vehicle to his tenant. the car I purchased from Dan had a check engine light on a week after i got it, so I brought it back TWICE and both times all he did was reset the sensor. there was a ticking from the engine and I was told that it was just how the engine was suppose to sound. since the car was a piece of shit, much like the guy who sold it to me, we agreed on just settling on a final payment of $100 for the title and that would be it. after we came to that agreement, 3 more payments were taken out of my account. I was told I had to pay those 3 payments back even though settled on NO MORE PAYMENTS BEING PULLED FROM MY ACCOUNT PRIOR TO THEM COMING OUT. I had to call my bank and stop payments being pulled from abate auto sales. I then went to get title for this car so I can trade it in for yet another vehicle and he refused to take my cash app card as payment because I had to block this business from taking payments out that I did not authorize. Dan forced me to pay him in cash obviously due to his lack of understanding of technology. He then went on to tell me he never stated that this car was reliable. I was a single mother at the time and needed a car specifically to drive my daughter to daycare and get to and from work. even though I stressed the importance of reliability to him, he still, knowingly, sold me a car that was bound to break down within miles. Not a single car in this lot is running correctly, this was the most unprofessional and plain fucking stupid experience I've ever had in my life. I didnt even report the vehicle stolen, and even though it was his fault it was stolen he did not compensate me in any way for it. since this last interaction has been a bunch of bullshit I am now reporting the vehicle stolen and I will be compensated justly for at least one vehicle. karma is a bitch dan, rot in hell you scum bag read more

Here comes a long one... I've had many problems with this place, let's just say I won't be going back..ever! First time I ever went I needed a fuel pump installed in my car, no problems everything good. So of course I went back for my next mechanical problem. Second time I went my car was totally broken down, I got it towed to them hoping they could help..now by this point I've heard of some problems people have had with them but I still gave them the befit of the doubt since they were good the last time. Needless to say my car was shot, the price to fix the engine wasn't worth it because of the car price...so I junk it. At this point I was concerned because it dones't look like my car was ever moved..at all. By that means I'm positive now that it wasn't, how do I know you ask well let me tell you...i got a call from the junk yard telling my my car wasn't as broken as I thought, in fact the car could still run if I changed this inexpensive part..which I ened up doing and the car worked great! I was very PO'd at Abate about this because they charged me and they didn't do ANYTHING!!!! So my wife goes there when our other vehicle has a problem...I told her not to go but she didn't listen. This car needed a fuel pump...at first they wanted $1000 for parts and labor..I was weary at the price by my wife paid them befoe I could talk to them. So the car was fixed and after driving for a day the CEL comes on. I go to autozone to get light checked and it was an electrical problem between the computer and the fuel pump..what a surprise. I tell Abate this and they tell me that since was a day later anythign I did could have made this problem...seriously? Forget this place!! Now we're at the thrid time...my wife went there for emissions and to see why our CEL came on again for her car. The guy there says he would take care of it...I go back the next day and the CEL is off and he said we were good to go but he couldn't do emissions yet...I knew exactly what he did which was just delete the codes until my car went through the cycle agian but he assured me he fixed the problem. We drive to Avon tha same day and the light comes on, I call right away and I'm livid. They tell me to come the next day, now this guy already charged me an hours labor for deleting my codes and then when we go the next day he's like "Oh then it's the throttle" I asked how much that would be, he tells me let me check around. He calls me later that day and tells me the cheapest he found online was $750 I asked him where, he told me ebay. I was able to say okay but then I said I would look around, he quietly said Okay. I went on ebay found it for $200, I called him and I let him have it I told him he was trying to screw me and stuff and I hung up and got my car towed to a different place. I have turned off many people from going there, Mostly my family and friends. I'm also telling you that you should NOT go to this place, they try to scam you and on top of that they do a terrible job at fixing your car! read more

I have actually gone to Abate's again because they are very close to where we live. The service is much improved.

I am not the type of person to endorse anything but I have to this time . I have bought 2 cars from Dan and have had wonderful service on both ! Dan , Kevin and Nate have helped me out on more than one occasion when I needed my car fixed quickly because of work and then an emergency situation with my husband and then when I had an important Dr.s appt. I could not miss or I would have been charged 150.00 ! They are all friendly and kind and my car runs like a top ! I recommend them to my friends and family without hesitation ! read more