Please stay away from this place, the owner (Mike) is completely unethical and extremely rude, his mechanics are incompetent and uncertified, they will leave you a broken boat and a huge bill to pay! And they give zero f**k about your boat and your business, we took our 40' Sea Ray in for a repair back in September, we went to them only because they are close by on the water way, Mike told us we have to replace the entire left engine, which costs us $7000 for the new engine, he agreed upon $3000-$4000 for the labor before started replacing the engine, and gave us an estimate about one week, but it took them 2 and a half weeks (13 days) to put everything back together, he had no shame to ask us to compensate for his incompetent and procrastination, we were told to pay $10000 for the labor and parts!! We tried to get a break down from all that ridiculous amount of charges but he refused to explain, he just told us his labor are expensive and if we don't pay them we are not getting our boat back!!! Beyond shock and frustrated we paid and got the boat back and thought we will NEVER go back again. Two months later, the left engine was smoking while we are on the water taking some guests out, we took the boat back to Mike politely asked him to check what when wrong, it took him another week to take the engine apart and he assumed the brand new engine was a defect and asked us to take it back the wholesaler for testing, we drove 3 hours to Punta Gorda to have the engine tested by the professionals, results back it was complete fine!! We were told that is was Mike's fault that his mechanics didn't install it correctly, the parts they used were faulty, they did a sloppy job which causes the damage, the wholesaler rebuilt the engine in a week and said we should ask Mike for compensation and he supposed to pick up the charges and fix this mess. Another week passed when Mike and his guys finally put the engine back together, we got another huge bill $4000 to pay otherwise we don't get our boat back!! That's how they trick you to get paid, they took the boat apart so you have to leave it to them to fix, regardless they fix it or not you will have to pay their labor and whatever they say, otherwise you're not getting your boat back! The owner has no sympathy towards his clients, his shop is a junk yard, I can hardly image anybody could possibly work in a place like this, I hope you will never have to deal with what we've been through after reading this, go for any mechanic in Miami but them! read more
