crappy day

[HiImBrian]

Well my alternator died on friday 13th and I finally had a day off work to go get it fixed. I would have loved to do this on my own considering it's really not that hard, but I wanted to enjoy my one day off work and just pay $50 bucks or so to have it done. Well I had it towed around 10am from my buddies house where I left it and I got to precision tune around 10:30ish. Luckily my buddy had some nice long boards in his garage so I could get my car on the flatbed w/o killing the intercooler and bumper. Anyways, I have a lifetime warranty on the alternator but I lost the receipt. So I was going to just take it to red rooster where we got it and hope they could replace it. So after waiting for precision tune to get the alternator out I finally drove to get the new alternator. Turns out I have to wait 2 hours because they don't stock em. That was my fault for not calling ahead. So after driving around for a while I finally go back and pick up the new alternator. I was lucky enough to get a free replacement. I go back to precision tune and wait like a few more hours till they close at 6 and finally get my car back. I was very hesitant to take my car to a shop like this. I normally go to db, lse, or map. Well I had asked them to let me know when they were done so I could reload my tune before they started it. Well they didn't let me know and all of a sudden I hear them trying to start my car. So hopefully nothing is messed up because of that. I loaded the tune asap when I got in my car. At the end of the day they charged me $188 to replace the alternator. I am pissed. Then to make things worse, as I'm driving home I notice theres a huge bump in my floor from something pushing up under my car. Like they jacked it up in the wrong place or something. So I've got to go fix that tomorrow and look over everything and make sure it was done right. wow I'm pissed and I don't think I'm ever going to a non performance shop again. OK rant over.:frown:

[HiImBrian]

And besides being screwed over from the shop nobody will buy my computer and I don't understand why?! IT"S A GOOD COMPUTER AND I'M LIKE GIVING IT AWAY!

[Jakey]

Well I had asked them to let me know when they were done so I could reload my tune before they started it. Well they didn't let me know and all of a sudden I hear them trying to start my car. So hopefully nothing is messed up because of that. I loaded the tune asap when I got in my car.
I sure hope that you spoke with the manager about this before your car left their property.

[DBMajik]

Dude, next time you want an alternator changed... Give me a call, I'll do it for $10. Free if you got beer haha.

[HiImBrian]

I sure hope that you spoke with the manager about this before your car left their property.

Shit he's the one I told in the first place. He's also the one that did most of the work. And also the one that didn't let me know. My dad just loves this shop and they usually do great work and are really great to work with. Just not a shop for modified cars I guess. I took a chance thinking it's just an alternator. Guess I was wrong and I need to just accept the fact that I got screwed.

[HiImBrian]

Dude, next time you want an alternator changed... Give me a call, I'll do it for $10. Free if you got beer haha.

I'll take you up on this. But since I'm not 21, how bout I just pay you cash to go buy beer and we share haha

[tpunx99GSX]

The last time i took my car to a shop, i broke a bolt that is one of the ones that hold the tranny to the engine, the only reason i took it there is because the week prior i pulled and put back in my tranny 4 times (yes, in one week.) I ended up paying 500 bucks just to get the bolt tapped out. they said (which was complete bullshit) they needed to take the transmission out to do it. Then after i got it back they put only 1.5 quarts of trans fluid in. (and who knows what they used. even though i told them REDLINE ONLY)
I got raped but what can ya do.

[HiImBrian]

Yea it totally sucks when you just have to bend over and take it up the butt lol. When I first got my dsm the alignment was pretty off cus the guy just threw springs on it and didn't mess with camber kits. I met a guy at uni that drives a burple gst with more stickers than I've ever seen before. I was quoted $1000 plus to do an allignment at firestone and he said hed do it as a side job. I ended up paying $500 for them to put shocks and camber kits on my car. They said they had to cut the front endlinks to do it too which beets the hell outa me why. O well. We should have an "I got ripped off" thread lol

[HiImBrian]

I went in to talk to them today about my car and the manager wasn't there (he was the one that did the work). I talked with another guy briefly and noticed they broke the pin that detects if the hood is open or closed for my alarm. They must have pulled on the mbc as well because that was not tight in the zip tie like i have always had it. The mbc was partially melted leaning against my exhaust mani. The guy also got down to look at the bottom of the car where the big indent was and his words were "hmm looks cracked to me. There's a little rust too, this has been there for a while." haha I'm like nope there's no rust and it just happend. Basically I didn't wanna argue with a guy that doesn't matter. I'll go back today and talk with the manager. Not sure what I want accomplished, but I figured he should know about my frusteration.

-indent in the floor
-broken pin for the alarm
-partially melted mbc (i wont blame them for this)
-ghetto rigged a bracket on my t-bolt to hold some wires

[TheBlizzard]

I just can't believe you didn't have 20 spare minutes to change it yourself. You would have saved yourself a lot of trouble.