benjo wrote:Having seen peters reply to the op's post on oc forum and being one of
The people Peter said he would give the real story about via PM.
I have some very simple questions to ask you Peter I'll even make them so
You can answer yes or no.
1.
Are you/do you have proper
qualifications as a motor mechanic?
2.
Should any steering rack ever need to be bedded in to create enough
Free play to operate as any other vehicle on the road?
3.is completely forgetting to refit a subframe bolt a serious mistake?
4.
Is charging a customer labour,parts,VAT on parts that where never
Fitted,either ethical good practice and legal?
Very simple Peter no need for any explanations just yes and no.
If you are not in any way wrong you will have no problem answering
Fair questions indeed.
Especially the one simple but obviously extremely important one, are you a time served mechanic with papers? If so I'm sure we would all love to know where tou served your time and who with?
Regarding subframes, do you think it's acceptable and fair practice to return a car to a paying customer with a subframe bolt packed out with washers and indeed perfectly safe?
Do you really, truly think it is ok to leave a small wiring harness of bare wires some of which have the actual wiring burst out like Spaghetti wrapped round parts of a customers engine and lying on top of a roasting hot rocker cover with the sleeve covering the wires to the oxygen/lambda sensor exposed and fed through a drilled hole with sharp/rough edges to chaff away until they too are exposed and short out or perhaps cause a fire?
Do you also think it s fair to claim to have changed a customers fuel filter when the most basic of inspections demonstrate it hasn't been changed for months and months at least?
Do you think it is fair to steal an ECU
"from another customers car" of the customer of the car you're supposed to be solely working on has doubts about the EXU that came with the replacement rev3 turbo rear clip?
Is it acceptable to not even bother checking to see if spark plugs are tight before handing a customer their car back for that customer to find two finger right and the other two able to be unscrewed by hand with a plug socket on an extension bar?
And what about refilling the coolant in the converted rev 3 turbo engine with old coolant when that customer told you and showed you the brand new bottle of coolant in the boot he told you to use?
What's tour views on telling customers that their car will be getting a full professional valet, wax and polish at your own expense and then when the customer turns up to collect the car it's an absolute mess inside and out, oil marks everywhere, filthy alloys, a drill bit left in the seat along with an old oily screwdriver and then when questioned to simply lie through your teeth that you never said a thing about getting it properly valeted, waxed and polished?
Or what about charging a customer an hours labor to drive their car to get an mot when they are spending over
£3000 with you? Mind you, you did do me the huge favor of only charging me an hour when I'm fact you claim it takes and hour and a half.
What a true heart of gold you have Peter.
And lying non stop about the condition of the engine when running after being asked countless times does it smoke on the overrun, under load, at idle etc?
Or how about handing back a car with an Omori boost gauge where the original N/A voltmeter was that is so off centre Helen Keller could have done a rosier job?
Or what about the breakdancing speedometer you fitted? Is that nothing for a customer to worry or complain about either then?
Or how about calling a custom2 days after you have their car to tell them you had left that customers keys in your car overnight outside tour house and they had been stolen.
But then asking calm as you like, with not even a hint of an apology or any embarrassment if they could just send the spare set down and then inferring it could all be I forgotten about and no harm done let's just move on.
Then when being told by the customer he didn't feel safe that somebody else had his car keys and alarm fob and you thought it more than fair to have an entirely new lock kit fitted with a replacement spare alarm fob and both original and new fob reprogrammed you hit them with a stinking attitude.
Tell them they are overreacting and your stopping the conversation there and then and hang up! By the way Peter Gidden, I'm in touch via email with the cops down there to get a crime reference number as you stated the cops had been out to investigate, take prints etc but had no luck.
I'm sure they find that crime reference number as I have given them the dates, both your home and business address and both tour contact numbers.
So watch this space eh?
Well myself and others could go on and on asking you basic questions about your appalling workmanship but tour track record shows that when caught out as you often are when a customer that knows a bit about modifying and performance cars you blame everyone else.
Or the customer themselves.
Or blatantly deny it.
Or do your usual, lie through your teeth.
And then stick you fingers in your ears whilst singing LAH LAH LAH LAH.
The impression I'm getting from everyone you have shafted is that we have all had enough and you need to stop claiming to be able to do work on any MR2 to a reasonable standard and stop trading now before your approach, delusion and bodge ups kill someone.
