On Atlantic Blvd since 1978

Arlington Motor Company, Inc. performs automotive repair and maintenance at 10939 Atlantic Blvd in the Arlington district of Jacksonville, under NAICS 8111, Automotive Repair and Maintenance.

Diagnosis, brakes and tires, air conditioning and cooling, engine and drivetrain, and scheduled maintenance. All makes, all model years out of factory warranty. The business has been at this address since 1978 and is run by Kay Brooks.

The position, stated plainly

Almost every shop website in this industry has no prices on it. The reasoning offered is that every car is different, and every car is different — but the labor rate is not, the flat-rate times are not, the interval services are not, and the cost of finding out what is wrong is not.

Withholding those four things serves the shop. It means a customer has to spend a telephone call, and often a visit, to establish whether they can afford to ask. And it means when the figure finally arrives, they have nothing to compare it against except their own anxiety.

So we publish them. The labor rate, the diagnostic fee and a price range for every operation we perform are on the pricing page, laid out to print, and you are welcome to take them to another shop and compare. If somebody else is genuinely cheaper for the same work with the same parts grade and the same warranty, that is worth knowing.

All makes, no badges

This site names no vehicle manufacturer, carries no manufacturer logo, and makes no franchise, factory-authorization or factory-certification claim.

That is deliberate. Competence in this trade is shown by what a shop actually does — the equipment it has, the operations it performs, the documents it produces and the way it handles a repair order that needs to grow. A badge is the easiest thing in this industry to display and the hardest for a customer to evaluate.

Claims this page refuses to make

No star rating. No review count. No award. No certification logo. No association membership. No “voted best in Jacksonville”. No number of cars serviced. No photograph of a smiling technician holding a clipboard. No coupon.

Every one of those is either purchasable, unverifiable, or both, and an industry with a trust problem does not fix it by printing more badges.

What is on this site instead is checkable, and specific enough to hold us to: a legal name you can look up; an address on Atlantic Blvd you can drive to; a telephone number answered during posted hours; a labor rate and a diagnostic fee with a review date; a menu of prices; and a written statement that nothing is done without your authorization and that a revised number needs a second one.

Florida registers motor vehicle repair shops and a registration number is displayed at the premises. Ask for ours on the telephone or when you come in and you will be told it. It is not printed here because a number typed onto a web page is not something you can verify from a web page.

Ask and you will get the rest: the warranty term in writing, which parts grades are available for your repair and what each costs, and your old parts back. Telephone (904) 721-3000.