Tony is the nicest and best human. He's been repairing my car for years. I highly recommend him.

The absolute worse place. Please do not take your car to this place, you will get serviced by incompetent mechanics and painters. And the worse you might have to get a lawyer involve if you want your car or your money back. The owner gives you nothing but excuses and lies without any hesitation. read more

This was a mom and pop feel shop that gave my jaw the drop. I truly appreciated the assistance regarding replacing the last brake pad I needed swapped out. I'm a do it yourself whenever possible kind of guy to save whatever I can in these hard times. This shop respected that and charged labor and parts for whatever I didn't already provide or complete on my end. read more

Very bad experience for this store!! Never never never come back!!! We needed to change a new tire because our tire was flat. They gave us a price and we decided to come. We drove with our spare tire to there at the time we made, Toni was not there and no one else can speak English. We called Toni and he asked us to come later and the tire will be ready. We had no choice so we drove around. One and a half hour later, no one called us so we came back to see. The store was already closed!! And we met Toni before he left. He said our tire was not ready yet and asked us to come next day. Even didn't say a sorry and gave us an explanation. And then he left us at his closed store! Terrible!!! The worst service in Miami!! We had to drove with spare tire back and forth!! read more

Very disappointed in Tony. I am not only a customer that has been taking my cars to Tony for years, but have also recommended him to family and friends, which have listen to me and have gone to Tony in the past. I recently took a old Alfa Romeo which I am bringing back to life, and it came back worse than I gave it to him.....the windshield came back with a crack, the frame for the convertible top I had paid him for, came back with a broken support arm. I had also paid him $70 for a plastic piece he said he had someone that could make it.....well, after multiple times of me chasing him, I heard every BS story in the book. He never provided for the part. When I asked him for the money back, all he could do was show me his empty wallet, and claimed he did not have any money. Something happened to Tony. Not the same person from 7 years ago. He used to be a serious, reliable person that my family and I trusted. I guess the $70 which was all I requested back from him, means more than having a loyal customer, what I thought was a friendship, and for that matter a few recommended loyal customers. At this point I cannot say anything positive about the way he handles business. Would not recommend at all.......great salesman......very poor customer service. read more

they got paid from my insurance company within 2 days and didnt get my care fixed for over 2 months all i got was run arounds over and over and then when i picked up my car it was still acting up on top of that they hit another part of my car and have yet to fix it ! these people are quick to get paid but not quick on work i would never send anyone to this place EVER read more

Tony Estamponi, the owner of Arpa, Inc stayed open late for me and gave me a ride to the train, opened on the weekend to fix my car and had it ready for me when I arrived. He is a no-fuss auto shop, and you can tell his customers really like him. read more

This is a late review because when Arpa originally messed up my car, "Yelp" didn't exist. I brought my classic car to Tony after a lengthy discussion about him wanting to get into the Classic Car restoration arena and that he had a '57 Chevy he was working on. He showed me photo album after album of his supposed spectacular work. I had the car with the engine, trans, interior, exterior trim including bumpers and front and rear windshields all removed. All he had was a rolling chassis to do his magic on. We agreed upon a fairly reasonable price, shook hands, gave him 1/2 down for a deposit and we agreed that if I was not completely satisfied for any reason that I wouldn't have to pay the remainder of the balance. I thought "win-win"! He tasked "Carlos" with being the lead honcho for taking care of my classic. Problem with Carlos is that he had a suspended driver license and EVERY weekend, he would get arrested for felony driving with a suspended license and not show up for days. Anyway, the car sat at the shop for two months without a single thing being done to it. Well, with the exception that they used it to store shop garbage in it. I asked Tony why nothing had been done and he said he had a few cars come in that needed immediate attention since his main bread and butter came from high-end dealerships (BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche) needing work on cars to put back on their lots. It didn't matter that my several thousand dollar minor rust repair and paint job was paid half up-front. I drove past the shop one day while working and my car was out in the lot in the rain and uncovered. Mind you, there were no windshields on the car. Suffice it to say, the dash components as well as bare metal were now exposed and compromised to rust. I wish this was the end of the complaint but there's more. Month after month after month went by and still the same song and dance. All I wanted was to get the car with the engine compartment painted so I could bring it home to put the highly detailed and chromed motor in it then send it back for the final painting. The car is then shipped back and I was assured the painting would commence as soon as Carlos came back. Really? the car then came out of the paint booth and before they clear coated it, I went around the car with blue masking tape and marked off all of the surface imperfections. The car looked like a gray and blue dalmatian. But here's the biggie! they didn't cover the !@#$% motor so paint over-spray covered the freshly painted and chromed engine. I had to leave before an nuclear explosion was about to occur. I gave him a final deadline and promised I would be back on a specific date with a flat bed truck whether or not the car was finished. The car was just coming out of the paint booth having the clear put on when I showed up with the flatbed. one year and one month later, I finally had my car back to finish the reassembly. I never paid him another dime as a deal is a deal. When I got home and hosed the car down, the front windshield leaked so I had to get Safelite to come and remove and re-install it. As far as the paint job ... they puttied over ALL of the emblem mounting holes, the clear coat had runs down the door, fish-eye bubbles on the hood and roof and this is huge ... the color was supposed to be a clear coated quartz w/mother of pearl but what I got was a metallic pewter. As far as the color, I have to live with it but I was able to wet-sand the clear coat screw-ups. On the positive side which is why I gave two stars, Tony is a super friendly and cordial guy who sticks to the word of an financial agreement ... not so much for deadlines though. Oh yeah, I left him 10 throw-away cameras to detail the process. His kids used the cameras around the house and his new kitchen. I only have 4 photos of his process .... meng! read more

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Tony Estamponi and Miguel are the kind of Mechanics that do not exsist anymore. Honest, up front with the issues, great personality. I know both of them for more that 15 yeas and to be honest i never look for any other mechanic. Great Job, keep the good work. Ciao Luca P. read more

Worst place ever! Don't come here!! They will rip you off and make it really difficult to attend you if you need to go back to have what you needed fix in the first place fixed. I've had to go back twice to get my headlight put in correctly since they left it loose and cant even have it put in right...had to get my grandpa at the end to do it since these ppl here suck read more

My husband and I have been taking our cars to Tony for more than thirty years. He has saved us a small fortune and kept our cars in perfect running order. We feel blessed beyond measure to have such an honest, knowledgeable, thorough, kind, gracious, thoughtful person to work with. Just as the previous reviewer mentioned the personal touches have been so helpful - whether it has been a ride home or for him to keep his shop open overtime to help us. He (and his shop) are head and shoulders above any of the previous mechanics we have had to deal with--it is night and day. read more

Take your car to Arpa. I'm honestly surprised there arent more reviews on here! As the other reviews stated, Tony Estamponi is honest and reliable, and has owned the shop since the 70's. He will tell you what work your car actually needs, vs. what work is more of a nice-to-have, and the prices are always reasonable. Arpa is the kind of shop people keep going to for their lifetime (or as long as they live in Miami- my dad has been going to him since the 70's and he has always treated us like family). read more