Marlin & Tony’s Auto Repair

Marlin and Tony do FANTASTIC work. I have been bringing my car down there for 2 years now. Not once have had an issue or felt like I’ve been overcharged. Staff is friendly and the work is completed in a timely manner. Can’t say enough about the high quality here.

I have been going to Tony’s for over 10 years and he has been very up front and honest. The service is far better than the dealerships and at a better price.

I would rather have taken the car to a backyard mechanic! At least I could get a honest qoute and faster service! If you have money to throw away and no time this is your place!

These guys handle a lot of different vehicles with class & knowledge. Honest & hardworking. Clean garage; clean waiting room; even a clean restroom.

I had to seek out a new auto repair shop after moving to Fresno from Manteca. I am very impressed with the service and efficiency of the service I’ve received here. This place is honest, affordable, flexible, and caring. Tony is a really nice guy and very helpful. I’ve made Marlin & Tony’s my new auto repair shop!

Oh my dear… this is my 100^th review! And it’s a 5 star-​er :]
Ok so I’m a typical girl in my twenties which means car trouble gives me anxiety for a few reasons:
1) I know pretty much zero about automobiles except that tires are the big round things and losing your keys is a pain in the butt
2) I loathe searching for auto repair shops because I’m afraid to be swindled based on my age and gender
3) I usually have to prepare myself for the fat bill that comes with car trouble and have no real idea if the price is right for the thing-​a-​ma-​bob that they are replacing under the hood
Enter Marlin & Tony’s! Brought my jeep in for a squeaky noise issue, my car is fairly new so I was surprised that I was already hearing noises. Tony was friendly, thorough, and honest. Left my car there for a little under 2 hours (he estimated it would take about 1ish but my experience was good and I didn’t have an appt and other cars were there so it ended up not bothering me). The good news is that my brakes ended up working perfectly fine, he explained how breaks should work and that mine were in great condition. Unfortunately he said to get rid of the noise he could do a brake a job but that I honestly didn’t need one unless the noise is driving me crazy. He test drove it at the end too. And only $ 45 to check it all out + a free tire rotation– much cheaper than what the dealership told me it would take to have a brake inspection. He also helped my mom with her own car issue and gave her a play by play of the costs and how it would affect her car.
Anyways, way to go Tony and Marlin. It’s hard to find honest folk in the car business and I think I found my place for any future car troubles.

Great prices and great service. I was quoted almost half of what the dealership quoted me and my truck is running great. If you need auto repair work done, don’t hesitate to use their services!

Great service and friendly staff. We were in and out in no time and it was a lot less expensive than we anticipated!

I am originally not from this area, i came to fresno for school and just last week i started having really bad car issues. My car had broken down and i was not able to start it up. I called Tony hoping that maybe he could help me get my car running again. As a student and a worker i was in desperate need for my car. Since i saw good reviews here i trusted him with my car and honesty in the pricing range. Two days after taking my car in, he gave me a call to let me know that my car was not starting up because of the arrangement of the fuses. He told me also that my air filter had two broken parts in which he told me the parts were $ 7 and he went ahead and ordered them for me and told me i was looking at $ 152. He also told me that he would take it for a test drive to make sure my car was fine to drive. He gave me a call just two hours later and told me that everything was fine and i was able to pick my car up. I was charged $ 152 which in my case is a really good price (as a student, don’t have money to spend). I couldn’t be any happier with their service and i would highly recommend! :)

I got a bid from Charlie’s Automotive first as they had so many great reviews on Unilocal and he diagnosed a left front motor mount was bad on my 1999 Civic. Because the price seemed high to me, I had my Kids take it by Marvin and Tony’s Auto to get a second opinion. He was more careful in diagnosing the problem (a clunking when you braked or accelerated quickly) and he found that both of the front mounts were bad along with a transmission mount. He provided an initial price of $ 340 to do everything including parts and labor. Keep in mind that this is three times the labor and parts as what Charlie’s had quoted and they were much higher) He then noticed that the price of the transmission mount that the parts house had quoted him seemed high, so he asked my Son to wait while he called them to verify the price. He was right. The price was actually about $ 50 cheaper. My Kids were blown away that the guy was so honest. Most any other shop would have never said a word and pocketed the extra cash.
My kids also noticed a lot of Christian brochures and items proclaiming their faith in their waiting area; so it is apparent that they practice their faith by being honest. It is really nice to find an honest mechanic that you can trust, so I wanted to give them a shout out and five stars.

My AC fan went out on one of the lovely over 100 degree Fresno days.
Went in and had it fixed in about an hour, for a fraction of what the dealership would have charged and the fact that I sat and read a book for an hour and drove away with a cool car made my day!

Took my car to a Toyota dealer, they recommended a $ 770 repair. Marlon and Tony’s said they would do the repair for $ 360, which was the lowest price of about 4 places I contacted. So I take the car in at nearly 1:00 in the afternoon.
A little later I get a call from Rasha. He tells me he looked at it and what he sees he really doesn’t believe they told me what was wrong. He then explained in a way I could understand something about the repair that I had suspected all along. He told me that he thought the repair needed was a $ 220 repair, which is what I expected before I took the car in. He said he didn’t feel right repairing the other thing because after looking at it he thought it didn’t need it.
It sounded honest to me because what he was telling me was the real problem was exactly what I expected it to be before I took it in, plus he was going to make less money on the deal. I said go ahead.
And guess what? I got a call back later in the day telling me the car was ready, the same day, (which was amazing!) and then showed me exactly what he did and the parts. He also showed me another thing on the car which could have caused a severe problem, something I was able to handle quickly and easily myself. Gosh only knows when I would have gotten it back from the dealer, or if I would have gotten the real repair I needed, and you can see the cost.
Only time will tell if I got the real repair I needed, but I have a lot of confidence that I did, and even if I didn’t and have to have the other thing repaired by the same guy then I’m still almost $ 200 better off than the dealer price.
And, if the repair holds up and does what I hope it will do, then it looks like I’ve found a great repair place!

My mother and I have been taking our cars to Tony for almost 15 years. His organization is honest and dependable. That is very rare in this industry. I wouldn’t take my care anywhere else for service.

Tony and his excellent staff have been servicing my cars and my friends cars for more than a decade. Tony is very professional and always delivers as promised. In my experience no job has been too big or too small for his crew.