venting (frustrated)
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Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 55
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From: Chicago Illinois
I completely agree. There are plenty of reputable guys out there with shops or trying to open a shop that get a bad name because of people like this.
I think you should write a letter to the BBB, to the local papers, and keep doing this. You have the right to mention their name on a website, so keep doing it, put it in the title of your post and say stay away from _____. Like my wife takes her car to Jiffy Lube, and they always try to sell her an air filter (every three thousand?) Dumb hacks, just don't know why she buys one every time!!!!!
Just kiddin. But seriously, do everything you need to to draw negative attention to their company. I would also include a email address and have people write to them and say they read about what they did to you and it is wrong, and they should refund your money.
If it was not so far I would suggest picketing. But otherwise drawing a lot of negative attention on the web can do a lot for your cause as well.
I think you should write a letter to the BBB, to the local papers, and keep doing this. You have the right to mention their name on a website, so keep doing it, put it in the title of your post and say stay away from _____. Like my wife takes her car to Jiffy Lube, and they always try to sell her an air filter (every three thousand?) Dumb hacks, just don't know why she buys one every time!!!!!
Just kiddin. But seriously, do everything you need to to draw negative attention to their company. I would also include a email address and have people write to them and say they read about what they did to you and it is wrong, and they should refund your money.
If it was not so far I would suggest picketing. But otherwise drawing a lot of negative attention on the web can do a lot for your cause as well.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 1,019
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From: az
Originally Posted by Slovette2000
well guys I just feel like I need to vent for a little bit (sorry for the long post)....this is the history of my car ...for the last 3 years I've been trying to make the vette fast. my goal was to at least put 600 rwhp ..so I started by taking the car 700 miles from home to get a "racing" transmission built that cost me around 2300 $$well less than 2 wks after picking it up at this shop (that is no longer in business) the tranny goes bad so I have to tow it 700 miles back to this shop to get it fixed finally it gets fixed so I think I am ready to get my engine rebuilt, 2 and a half years ago I took my car to a shop in Ky called TEA and I was gonna try to get the vette to put 600 rwhp on the bottle ...I paid the shop several thousands dollars to build the motor and put heads and cam package on it I was planning on puttin a 150 0r 200 shot of NOs on the vette 
they kept the car for several months the car was sitting outside the shop with four flat tires for at least two months before they actually started working on it.....and that is before one day I just got fed up and drove over to the shop and told them how I felt ....long story short ..I paid for a built bottom end and I end up getting the same motor the car had when it went to the shop they raped me .....they did not put forged pistons or all the goodies I thought I was getting done to the motor......I waisted a good 6000 dollars 
thank's TEA and that's not all because something they did not do right caused the car to catch on fire and I have to replace the wiring harness on the vette along with the tranny cause they left the transmission lines laying against the headers and the tranny got fried a week after I picked the car up from this shop called TEA remember this is the same tranny I had to get fixed 700 miles from my house (twice)...my car has been at this other shop located a few hundred miles from my house which I've been going back and forth at least 10 times ...I purchased a blower from a friend of mine and I had this shop build me a motor and install the blower on it (so i picked up the car and drove it around 1100 miles to break the motor in) i had to drop the car back off to them because it was getting hot, they have had the car for months now ....last week I thought the car was gonna be ready ..well while they had the car on the dyno the car started smoking and now the car is back at the shop with a cracked head and possibly a blown up motor .. 
shop says it is my fault the car is not running now because I was running the car hot ...the car was getting hot while they had it on the dyno before I took it home the first time....I am almost to the point that I don't want this pile of **** vette ...all I ever get out of it is headaches ,stress and nothing good...it runs for two weeks and stays at the shop for 3 months 
it is very frustrating.... I'm not giving up on this shop just yet I hope that they will fix this pos car ASAP so I can drive it around, how it is that you buy a car for around 44,000 and put nearly 30,000 in it to get it, to where you want it (fast) and after all this it is still a pos.
Dont get me wrong I love my vette but it is just getting very frustrating, that i do all this to take it to the track to race it and have fun with it and 97% of the time it is in the shop.
they kept the car for several months the car was sitting outside the shop with four flat tires for at least two months before they actually started working on it.....and that is before one day I just got fed up and drove over to the shop and told them how I felt ....long story short ..I paid for a built bottom end and I end up getting the same motor the car had when it went to the shop they raped me .....they did not put forged pistons or all the goodies I thought I was getting done to the motor......I waisted a good 6000 dollars thank's TEA and that's not all because something they did not do right caused the car to catch on fire and I have to replace the wiring harness on the vette along with the tranny cause they left the transmission lines laying against the headers and the tranny got fried a week after I picked the car up from this shop called TEA remember this is the same tranny I had to get fixed 700 miles from my house (twice)...my car has been at this other shop located a few hundred miles from my house which I've been going back and forth at least 10 times ...I purchased a blower from a friend of mine and I had this shop build me a motor and install the blower on it (so i picked up the car and drove it around 1100 miles to break the motor in) i had to drop the car back off to them because it was getting hot, they have had the car for months now ....last week I thought the car was gonna be ready ..well while they had the car on the dyno the car started smoking and now the car is back at the shop with a cracked head and possibly a blown up motor .. shop says it is my fault the car is not running now because I was running the car hot ...the car was getting hot while they had it on the dyno before I took it home the first time....I am almost to the point that I don't want this pile of **** vette ...all I ever get out of it is headaches ,stress and nothing good...it runs for two weeks and stays at the shop for 3 months it is very frustrating.... I'm not giving up on this shop just yet I hope that they will fix this pos car ASAP so I can drive it around, how it is that you buy a car for around 44,000 and put nearly 30,000 in it to get it, to where you want it (fast) and after all this it is still a pos. Dont get me wrong I love my vette but it is just getting very frustrating, that i do all this to take it to the track to race it and have fun with it and 97% of the time it is in the shop.
Intermediate
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 42
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From: Atlanta GA
Originally Posted by jak112460
I learned just like you but it took me less time. You tried to save money by going to "some shop".
