Avoid this shop. Dishonest and Unprofessional. I entrusted this business with an engine swap and $5,000. I received a car that doesn't run. They lied about repairing my radiator (later admitting they just used a sealant) and rigged my battery with an improper fix that the dealership has since deemed a risk to my vehicle's electronics. Dealing with the owner has been a nightmare--he is rude and lacks any sense of accountability. I am currently out of a vehicle, paying for rentals, and forced to take legal action. Do not let the '51 years in business' fool you; their work is poor and their word is not trustworthy." read more

Took my engine out of a 1970 CJ5 Jeep to go have rebuilt at Accent Automotive, machine shop. They called me and said they were going to have to bore it 40 over and replace everything else to correctly rebuild it. I took the engine back home after it was done and installed it in the jeep. It started right up but smoked horribly white smoke and I'm talking smoked enough to where I could not even see the jeep unless I walked away from. I called back and they told me to bring it back up there and they could not give a refund for anything. It really pisses me off that they cannot do quality machine work. I would avoid this machine shop and shop elsewhere.. read more

I reserved a Budget Truck through this business one month before our move to a new state. I received a call from the manager of this establishment who very unconcernedly let me know 2 days before our move that they don't have the truck we reserved, or ANY moving trucks. This is so unprofessional and this is not how you conduct a business. If you can RESERVE a truck, it means a truck is available and held for you on that day. You don't just call your customer 2 days before their move and say "oh well we don't have it". We will now be out hundreds of more dollars trying to get a last minute Uhaul who actually has a reservation guarantee. I'm so disappointed that this is how business is conducted with this company and I'll let everyone I know not use this company. read more

When I took my 1980 Corvette to Accent Auto Feb 26, 2024, I took a written list of everything that I wanted replaced or rebuilt. I wanted to be very clear on what I wanted. I had a new Blueprint Engine installed. It leaked. I asked Joe Culvertson, the mechanic, why. He said that it was brake fluid from when he put on new trailing arms. It wasn't. It was running rough, thinking it was the Holley carburetor needing adjustment, I took it to John Freeman in Shawnee. John is supposed to be the Holley expert. John noticed the engine didn't have the needed PCV system installed. Fixing that and having the timing reset and carb adjusted cost $377 for what should have been done at Accent. It no longer leaks oil and runs great. I did have on my list to replace the front coil springs and the rear leaf springs. Joe put on shorter bolts to raise up the rear of the car instead of replacing the spring. I was okay with that but raising the rear caused the new door panels to drag. I told Joe to undo the bracket/bolts because I did not want the door panels messed up. I told him this, three weeks in a row when I went over to check on the car and he was still messing with it. I don't know how many hours he spent on it. He told the boss he only spent an hour on it. It ended up costing me $410 for Midwestern Interiors to get the door panels to fit right again. Joe and Bob Spencer, the owner, tried to tell me the door panels didn't fit right to begin with. Those panels were on perfectly when it rolled into their shop. Joe had taken the right door panel off and on so much the window tinting has several scratches in it. Bob only wanted to pay half of what it cost me to fix the panels when Joe was the one who messed them up. At one point I had an after-market alarm put on the car, but it caused so many problems I disconnected it from the battery. Although the alarm was not listed on my work request sheet that I gave the mechanics. Joe decided to hook it up without calling and asking why the alarm was not connected. Hooking the alarm up made the key buzzer go on and on and that took time for Joe time to figure out. I stopped by one day and told him I did not want that alarm hooked up to begin with because it only caused problems. I don't know how long he had worked on the alarm and its issues before I got there. Then tried to say the left turn signal didn't work because the alarm system wasn't hooked up. Turn signals do not interact with the alarm system. The right turn signal has always worked fine whether the alarm system was hooked up or not. I stopped by one day, and Joe said he had fixed one of the headlights. There wasn't anything wrong with the headlights that I knew of, and it wasn't on the list of requested repairs. One of the things I really wanted done was to replace the engine bay wiring because frayed and broken wiring has caused old cars to burn down. After the first week or two of them having the car, I told Joe I would go ahead and get the wiring ordered. On the list of repairs, I gave them I said that I would order it myself. Joe said that it was already on order. It wasn't. I didn't realize it had not been ordered and installed until after I had picked the car up. I'll have to do this myself at a later date. I wanted the windshield wiper fluid reservoir replaced, it looked awful. Joe decided it was okay because it didn't leak. I wanted the front and rear shocks replaced. Didn't happen. The new oil pressure gauge doesn't work since it isn't hooked up to the oil pressure sensor. When the car was last driven the AC worked great. Joe apparently knocked off an ac vacuum hoses behind the dash, and I was charged $150 to fix them. Plus and additional $150 to remove the blower motor assembly to repair a bad ground. The ground is on the outside of the blower motor and easy to get to, no need to supposedly remove it. The ground was good. I had put a 12-gauge ground wire on it to double the air flow. I was charged $300 to 'fix' the ac because Joe had knocked off the vacuum hose. I took the car back a 3rd time so they could take care of 4 things: - Replace the 44-year-old lower radiator hose as I had requested to begin with. - Install the anti-freeze expansion tank instead of just laying it in the area it was supposed to go. Unfortunately, instead of using the original two smaller bolts that held the original tank, one larger bolt was used to fasten it. - Put on the positive and negative battery cables as originally requested and I knew they had them because I'd already seen them. - Fix the ac compressor bracket so the belt could be tightened and get rid of the squealing noise. The car ended up with black specks of paint all over the front end for some reason. Mike and Joe H do fantastic work. But unfortunately they didn't work on my car. read more

I Have Never Went to a Shop to build a Rear Differential for me but I bit the bullet and went here on a word of mouth basis. Let me tell you these guys not only got my part rebuilt to top tip shape it was done in a timely fashion and I will from now on take big project to this guys. They are thorough and old fashioned and honest. Thanks again Accent Auto read more