Charris003

BUYER BEWARE!!!!!!

I purchased a differential from LMDNC5. He billed the unit as an RPM stage 3 3 rib differential. It even had an RPM tag on it. I drove to Arkansas to purchase the differential and trade my stock one, and upheld 100% of my end of the deal. When I got home and got the differential installed, with fresh fluid (according to RPM's website), I took the car for a drive and noticed and IMMEDIATE and very loud "whine" coming from the differential. After 20 miles of driving I put the car back on the lift and dropped the fluid and it was very metallic. Something is wrong with the differential. I pulled the differential out of the car and sent it directly to RPM. RPM gave me a call yeserday (Jan 17, 2019) and informed me that the differential was NOT an RPM diff and had no parts that they build diffs with. The clutches and bearings showed excessive heat, and the ring had not been set up correctly as there is a lot of scoring on the teeth and play.

Lee told me he purchased the differential, and that he had it in his supercharged c5 until the engine blew up. He told me that he had only put maybe 500 miles on it, along with some autocrosses, and was putting the car back to stock after blowing the engine.

Only after I contacted him did he change his story. Now he claims that he purchased the differential from another member on this forum. He now says theres no way to know how many miles are on it, as he purchased it second hand.

It's obvious that he KNEW there was a problem with this differential and LIED to me about it. He refuses to refund my money. Lee is a scumbag and buyers should be VERY AWARE of this situation when purchasing any parts from him. He cannot be trusted and will change his story.

I'm a man of my word. I have never/will never sell someone a junk part. This is not a situation where I ran the differential for an entire summer and beat the hell out of it, and now demanding money back. I installed this differential and IMMEDIATELY had issues. I contacted him directly to try to resolve this, but he would rather scam people out of money than do the right thing. Below you can find the pictures, directly from RPM that show the damage. This will end up costing me more than had I purchased their differential directly. Scumbags like this are what's wrong with the world today!

Pounder

not to sound like a a** but I would have brought a cordless impact with a 10 mil socket and buzzed off the rear cover ???? maybe good info for someone in the future ??? Sorry you got ripped, and you had to do all that labor !!!!!

Charris003

knewblewkorvette

Reading his posts, he does seem like a stand-up guy but what he is doing to you is BS. If he said it was a RPM stage 3 and it's not, he should refund $

Charris003

Vetteman Jack

Other member has been contacted, and moving this thread over to Transactions Feedback. Those that have no direct knowledge of the issue should not make speculative posts in the thread.

Edit: Since there is already a thread in the Transactions Feedback section on this, closing this one down.