So I purchased a car with the intent of restoring it a bit (it was in considerably good shape minus some rust) and putting performance parts on it. Its a 96 black honda dels ol. Nothing major to make it a real bad ass race car or anything, just something to spiff it up a bit. I wanted to put a new cold air intake (the one on it already was old and dirty), new header and performance exhaust, and a new clutch, because my gearbox is a racing one, but the clutch isn't for whatever reason.
Then ya know, general stuff like a new stereo. But theres some pretty bad rust on it that needs primed, painted and such. Which is all easy stuff I can do myself. After that I was going to buff and wax the car to a new shine and it would be pretty good.
Well, I got the car in November and didn't really wanna try to work on all that during the winter, so I've been waiting for spring. Well as soon as it got here I've run into a shit load or problems.
I have had problem after problem after problem after problem trying to get a new goddamn exhaust on my car...
I can't sit here and type how much bullshit I have gone through, I'll just do the most recent and ignorant thing to happen to me.
Which was, I was told to go to this place to just have a new performance exhaust put on my car. The guys build and make their own pipes and apparently are really good at what they do. So I call and make an appointment for two Wednesdays ago, and they called and moved me to last Wednesday...okay no problem. My appointment is at noon. Then they call the day before and ask if they can move my appointment up to nine in the morning so that they can get it done by like three. Okay...no problem. But this place is like 12 miles away and I have to have it flatbed towed there. My car is to small to be towed traditionally and not damage the car.
So I get my car towed up there and the guy shows up 20 minutes late. So after I've been waiting half n hour, the boss shows up and I can only describe him as Larry the Cable guy but arrogent And he asks me the single dumbest question I have ever been asked by a mechanic.
So, how soon would you like your car back?
I_I
Um, how about 15 minutes? What do you mean when do I want it back I want it back ASAP. I just said why? and he said Well I'd like to have it done by Friday.
0_o
Friday?! He explains they ordered the header by UPS yesterday and it hadn't come in yet. He has had two weeks notice on my car to get that header. When I made my first phone call to them they gave me a quote that with the header the cost of everything should run about $475. Then on the second phone call I double checked and they said $450 and when I asked him right there in the garage he said Well depending on what we get into really, I'm prolly lookin at $430.
So for whatever reason it keeps going down. What does he mean depending on what he gets into? Theres nothing to get into, put a RRRRing exhaust on my car its the ONLY thing you get into.
So now I gotta wait and he said he'd give me a call on Friday. Friday comes and goes, no call. So Friday night I stop by there place while no one is there to see how much they got accomplished.
I go up to my car, to discover that the RRRRing thing is sitting in the lot UNLOCKED. So I open my car no problem. But first I look under the car to see there is no exhaust on it at all. So I figure they at least got the header on, it's been three days. I open the hood, no header. Theres nothing. NOTHING has been done to my car. And from the way it looks, from where the car was dropped off by the tow truck, which was right in front of one of their garage doors, they got in, turned off the E-brake and just rolled it back slowly into their lot and closed it and left it there.
So I'm livid because I've been borrowing my Dads car and I need mine back at this point. I call Saturday at like one. I explain to who answered who I am and why I am calling and the situation. To which he replies Can you hold please?. So he puts me on hold, I'm on hold for twenty-minutes. Finally someone else gets on and asks me whats up. I explain to this guy the thing I explained to the first guy. Del-sol, new exhaust etc etc.
To which he replies Please hold. I'm put on hold for ten minutes then the guy picks up again and says Hey can we call you back? So I say yeah and hang up....
Yeah they never called back. And they closed at five and they are not open on Sundays. So whats my next course of action here? I mean, I am kinda at there mercy. I don't want to go in there and scream and yell at them because I really cant take the car anywhere else let alone pay a hundred bucks to have it towed again, then let them finish it and make them mad and then they'll put on a shitty exhaust on purpose.
I've never seen a mechanics business act so unprofessionally. What the RRRR excuse could they have to not have the car done? I mean THREE DAYS? And why did my appointment need to be moved up to nine if they were just going to let it sit? I thought the point in an appointment was that, that was YOUR time to be worked on?
I've never been this pissed in my life I don't think.
Then ya know, general stuff like a new stereo. But theres some pretty bad rust on it that needs primed, painted and such. Which is all easy stuff I can do myself. After that I was going to buff and wax the car to a new shine and it would be pretty good.
Well, I got the car in November and didn't really wanna try to work on all that during the winter, so I've been waiting for spring. Well as soon as it got here I've run into a shit load or problems.
I have had problem after problem after problem after problem trying to get a new goddamn exhaust on my car...
I can't sit here and type how much bullshit I have gone through, I'll just do the most recent and ignorant thing to happen to me.
Which was, I was told to go to this place to just have a new performance exhaust put on my car. The guys build and make their own pipes and apparently are really good at what they do. So I call and make an appointment for two Wednesdays ago, and they called and moved me to last Wednesday...okay no problem. My appointment is at noon. Then they call the day before and ask if they can move my appointment up to nine in the morning so that they can get it done by like three. Okay...no problem. But this place is like 12 miles away and I have to have it flatbed towed there. My car is to small to be towed traditionally and not damage the car.
So I get my car towed up there and the guy shows up 20 minutes late. So after I've been waiting half n hour, the boss shows up and I can only describe him as Larry the Cable guy but arrogent And he asks me the single dumbest question I have ever been asked by a mechanic.
So, how soon would you like your car back?
I_I
Um, how about 15 minutes? What do you mean when do I want it back I want it back ASAP. I just said why? and he said Well I'd like to have it done by Friday.
0_o
Friday?! He explains they ordered the header by UPS yesterday and it hadn't come in yet. He has had two weeks notice on my car to get that header. When I made my first phone call to them they gave me a quote that with the header the cost of everything should run about $475. Then on the second phone call I double checked and they said $450 and when I asked him right there in the garage he said Well depending on what we get into really, I'm prolly lookin at $430.
So for whatever reason it keeps going down. What does he mean depending on what he gets into? Theres nothing to get into, put a RRRRing exhaust on my car its the ONLY thing you get into.
So now I gotta wait and he said he'd give me a call on Friday. Friday comes and goes, no call. So Friday night I stop by there place while no one is there to see how much they got accomplished.
I go up to my car, to discover that the RRRRing thing is sitting in the lot UNLOCKED. So I open my car no problem. But first I look under the car to see there is no exhaust on it at all. So I figure they at least got the header on, it's been three days. I open the hood, no header. Theres nothing. NOTHING has been done to my car. And from the way it looks, from where the car was dropped off by the tow truck, which was right in front of one of their garage doors, they got in, turned off the E-brake and just rolled it back slowly into their lot and closed it and left it there.
So I'm livid because I've been borrowing my Dads car and I need mine back at this point. I call Saturday at like one. I explain to who answered who I am and why I am calling and the situation. To which he replies Can you hold please?. So he puts me on hold, I'm on hold for twenty-minutes. Finally someone else gets on and asks me whats up. I explain to this guy the thing I explained to the first guy. Del-sol, new exhaust etc etc.
To which he replies Please hold. I'm put on hold for ten minutes then the guy picks up again and says Hey can we call you back? So I say yeah and hang up....
Yeah they never called back. And they closed at five and they are not open on Sundays. So whats my next course of action here? I mean, I am kinda at there mercy. I don't want to go in there and scream and yell at them because I really cant take the car anywhere else let alone pay a hundred bucks to have it towed again, then let them finish it and make them mad and then they'll put on a shitty exhaust on purpose.
I've never seen a mechanics business act so unprofessionally. What the RRRR excuse could they have to not have the car done? I mean THREE DAYS? And why did my appointment need to be moved up to nine if they were just going to let it sit? I thought the point in an appointment was that, that was YOUR time to be worked on?
I've never been this pissed in my life I don't think.
scorpihoe:
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oui:
Happy birthday!