Did you ever fire a shop or pull your car from a shop before they finished? How did it go?
Did you ever fire a shop or pull your car from a shop before they finished? How did it go?
Did you ever fire a shop or pull your car from a shop before they finished? How did it go?
No. Good question. Usually it's pay the bill and put on a big fake grin and drive off knowing I didn't get what I wanted. I have known people that have had their car sitting in a field for years to the point where did they even get it back ever? Generally I've been pretty lucky. I have been rooked a couple of times one of those instances I got a compensation check, the other, it's just life isn't it really?
I'm glad I've not had to do the 'send a tow truck and take it away in pieces' routine.
Current shop just asked for a "deposit" which is actually the full amount of the work. So they want to be prepaid for work that hasnt even been started and so far they have shown themselves to take a really long time to complete phases. I am talking with the manager in a couple hours to tell him I am not prepaying for work.
Theyre either really shady, or its a lot of money and you seem like someone who wont pay.
Even if it is a lot of money most shops would do the work and put a lien on the title. Idk what state/country OP is in, maybe that's not an option?
I have already been using them for over a year and always paid on time. They changed ownership and seems they have a new method of business.
New owner's got gambling debts he needs to pay before he can buy your replacement parts. Better give him your money asap
Its worse than that. I already supplied the parts, they want the labor paid up front.
Yeah, Id bail on that place bro
This. I used to be parts driver and we had one shit head on my route like this. He’d literally be maxed out on all his accounts all around town with cars sitting all over his property, take in a job and get a “deposit” use to buy parts for another job, charge that customer, then disappear a few days and come back broke again and ask us to extend his credit so he can get some cars done. Heard he was going to TJ to fuck hookers.
ive only had to take my car to a shop a few times for big shit i couldnt do myself, and ive never had to prepay or make a deposit.
Good luck, fight for your rights Anon.
I have never in my life left my car in a shop overnight.
literally the only thing i ever bring my car in is for an alignment, and under warranty work from the dealer, and I always get it back the same day.
>fire
Poorfags desperately grasping at straws in an attempt to act like they have any sort of power. When you return something to a store do you think you're "firing" the store? When you get bad service at a restaurant and won't go back do you think you're "firing" the store? Lmao how pathetic. Whatever helps you cope with sitting at the bottom of the corporate ladder I guess
I’m a plumber you idiot.
Based
fire just means letting someone go. contractors frequently get "fired" and lose an opportunity for work. way to out yourself as a bubble boy incel
We also used to fire customers at my work
>Phone specialist shop before hand to get a carb set up
>>yeah no worries bring the car down and we'll get it done same day
>okay bro what's the rates
>>oh idk owners not in and it changed recently
>trailer car 4 hours down to the shop
>owner immediately starts kicking up fuck about "not booking ahead"
>bro I literally phoned yesteday
>won't give an estimate
>wants to keep the car for at least a week cause they're "really busy" despite the shop having 2 empty lifts
>don't even unload the car, get back in my truck and start turning around to leave
>owner comes out and is shouting obscenities at me demanding money for "wasting his time"
>just drive off
>set up carb myself so it runs like arse, limp it to a tuner more local to me and have a deaf old man tune it by ear for $70
Yeah I stopped using a shop literally on the same street as me cause they can't do anything in a timely manner, dropped by truck in to get an MOT and it took them 10 days before they put it on the ramp to fail it, followed by another 3 weeks before they bothered to change a wheel bearing
I drive 20 miles out of the way now to a shop that I trust to get shit done quickly, I only use the local one for tyres
I bought a Cadillac that dude couldn’t pay 700 to get out of the shop. Bought an engine from eBay for another seven hundred. Tossed it in the garage for twenty years without hardly touching it.