Corvette gone bad
 

I don'e even know what to say about this situation. That is the last think I would want to happen to a trusted local shop.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1924211

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Words cant even describe how dead that guy would be if that happened to me.

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Looks like on the last page the shop owner tried to basically buy her a new car and transfer all the aftermarket parts onto the new vette.

She turned it down and wants another shop to do all the work, not transfer any of the old parts, so shop A gets to pay shop B all the labor + cost of new parts.

So instead of the costing the shop ~$60k, the owner wants the shop to pay well over $100k, which makes sense, too bad its closed, wanted to hear how it ended up

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She says the shops insurance company wanted to pay off her loan...Not him buying her a new car. He alludes to it, but he is in the wrong. The mechanic took the car HOME to play with for the weekend. Any shop that does that deserves the worst. It is a customers car. Not to mention if your car looked like that and the shop owner had let one of the mechanics take your car home and then crashed it would you really want your brand new car there with crashed parts being put on it? I know some stuff is going to be fine, but would you trust a shop that just smashed your baby?

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LOL FstPoon!

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I just want to know if the local shops have policies against shop owners and employees taking customer cars "out for the weekend"? I would think that is the case.

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Stupid. Awesome that they posted what happened, but just turn it over to your insurance company, along with all of the receipts for what was in the car. They should cover all of it. You tell them who did it and who is actually liable, and they will go after them for the $$. This is what you pay your insurance company for, and this is what that shop pays its insurance for. Sure they initially came back and said they'd just pay off the loan, but when you spell out with receipts the true value of what was damaged, they will pay for all of it, whether its your insurance company or theirs.

PS--this would never happen with a DSM or an evo. I have not problem letting other people drive my car, because its solid and safe! Vette = RWD, I'm sure they lost control, weren't wearing their seatbelts (not headmarks on windshield), and could not recover because they were flailing around like little dolls instead of driving the car. JUST ANOTHER REASON TO WEAR YOUR SEATBELT!!!

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Out for a weekend? HA. We don't have a written policy, but unless a test drive (10 miles maybe?) is ok'd with a customer, their car won't leave sight of the shop.

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Man that really sucks. Hopefully everything gets resolved.

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My friend Beth lives in Summersville, S.C. it's about 2hrs from me.

And yes this can happen to DSM's, Nash can back me up on this one.

I dropped my car off at Metro Mitsu to get a noise checked out and to get a wheel bearing changed. To keep the story short 3 days they had my car and everytime I called they said we're still haven't figured it out. So finally I call and they say this is to modified for us to work on come pick it up.

So Andy gives me a ride up to Metro and he gets out of his car first and see's Brian (who's on this board and worked for metro at the time, but wasn't a member here yet) so andy starts talking to him as I'm talking on my phone in his car or something, anyrate I come walking up to them when brian starts telling Andy about this really fast white car that was up at the shop and that he'd taken it home for the weekend, etc. Andy just looked at him and said ya it's his! pointing at me as I'm come up.

They put 520 miles on my car in 3 days. And didn't fix anything. The noise was just a belt rubbing on the inner side of my lower timming belt cover.

Anyrate And look at nash's old GS-T got broken into at Metro 3 times, with security guard on duty, they even took his exhaust, I Mean you have to jack up the car and what not to get it off, LIKE you wouldn't see someone putting a car up on jackstands!!! And he got nothing from Metro.

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thats what I like about the local shops... they store you car inside and dont take weekend "joy rides" in cars, which is highly unacceptable... especially from a dealership. Just another reason I've started to document mileage at drop off and have someone at the shop sign off on the mileage before they take the car.... I dont want 500+ miles added to my baby

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WTF brian, I've never heard those stories here, that is just insane!

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That makes me sick.

Just remember to check your mile-o-meter before and after you bring your cars in!

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Yea I dont know how sane I would be in that situation. I hate letting anyone I dont trust deal with my car.. bodyshops, etc. Gladly I do any other work myself.

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OLD SCHOOL son. Do you know what MIAC is?

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I even remember what Seth drove before the silver CRX!

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One more reason I've never let anyone work on my car. On any of the cars I worked on when I was doing a lot of timing belts and clutches, I never drove them more than a mile because I was operating out of my garage at the time and didn't have business insurance to cover such damages. I wouldn't have anyways, it's just not good business.

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Wow, I'd like to know what they hit to cause that kind of damage. It almost looks like they jumped a curb or something, but none of the wheels are bent. Broken yes, but not bent, which is what you would expect if they jumped a curb or something. No signs of a hard impact either, and the airbags aren't blown, yet their heads hit the windshield hard enough to break it, and bend the steering wheel.

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I think on a lot of newer cars the airbags won't deploy if the seatbelts aren't buckled.

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It doesn't matter if the seatbelts are buckled or not. The airbags will deploy in a front end collision no matter what.

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Wrong. Do a search on "smart airbags" once. Many do not deploy if the seatbelt is not worn. These were mandated in 2005.

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That is just a shitty situation. It's nice to see the owner is willing to do something to help her, but at the same time I can understand the lady not wanting him to ever touch another one of her cars. If it were me, I think I would have taken his offer.

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My guess is that he took a corner to fast, front end started pushing, he panicked and locked up the brakes.

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hahaha I have pictures/video's of the first time we all went to ROCKFALLS.

Tyler won in his Class and took home a trophy in his then "Skunk" N/A integra.

Seth had that crazy little Blue Honda Hatch, I had my white 96GS-T, Nash had his Moroon 99GS-T, Moe was probably still working at Speedwerks, driving his then 16G's 1G, Devin had his white civic, Isaac had his Black FWD 1G, Swanny had his 14B Black 1G and drove the piss out of it at the track, John was driving his Galant with I think a 16G, Eric D had his Red 1G, Jason was driving his Black Cavalier, Matt Shelby had his Red 96GS, Steve hill was running 12's, Shane was running 12s, and Mike Bertz blew his 2G AWD motor trying to run 12's I remember it as being the first time anyone tried running 30psi on our cars, OH and Brent Rau was running 9.54@154mph in his then AWD 2G.

And I was hosting Install/Halo parties at my house every weekend.

And we'd meet at Buffalo Wild Wings in Apple Valley Every Tuesday and then cruise afterwards and race down at DCTC.

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Other than a group of colleges, no. An old www forum or email list perhaps? I have my own old skool, I was a vw boy back then, and I had other priorities like finishing college, living abroad, etc.

I joined this site about 5 years ago, around the time of these Install/Halo parties. I never took part because I was a dsmstyle newb and had the ridiculous idea that I could do stuff on my own (oh noes!). Before that I was not on style at all and was playing with Matt Janeusch's old 1G back when it had a Haltech and stock MAS (now THAT's oldschool!). And stuffing 3000GT breaks under those skinny stock 1990 16" Eclipse wheels before that. So while I was not here, I've been around plenty long ;)

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You forgot about me and my white '94 TSi fwd :( I had that car before Swanny got his black one. The summer before that I had a green '93 GSX.

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That explainst a LOT! :lol:


Old school is a potentiometer on the barometer on the MAS sensor! Then the 5 knob SAFC came out and all was good!

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And me with my 99 AUTO GSX with a bkit. Thats when "Thou who shall not be named" was a reputable guy cutting holes in everything and shaving bolts. lol

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This is way before that, before you found "Drive" hahaha J/K

Still remember my old screenname of "BrnOutKing" and I was asked to be technical support person for a Racing game that got picked up by Walmart, Target, and Best Buy. And they ended up making me the main character in the game. I can't remember the game name. Nash you still have it on your computer?

Something like "Midnight Outlaw Street Racer" if you go to the credits you'll see my name and old screen name.

Also the time when Jake was running 606whp on his camaro. I know Nash was with us when we first raced, who else came out that night?