Corvette gone bad

[95talonracer]

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

[BLaCk_1cE]

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

[iceminion]

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

[hippiekiller]

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?

[Kracka]

LOL FstPoon!

[FattyBoomBatty]

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.

[scheides]

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!!!

[MustGoFaster]

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.

[mdost03]

Man that really sucks. Hopefully everything gets resolved.

[SlowWhite]

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.

[crazy_skier]

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

[scheides]

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

[User Name]

That makes me sick.

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

[A//// Guy]

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.

[MustGoFaster]

Originally Posted by scheides

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

OLD SCHOOL son. Do you know what MIAC is?

[Kracka]

I even remember what Seth drove before the silver CRX!

[Goat Blower]

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.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

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.

[Kracka]

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

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

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