GeekGrl
01-28-2008, 05:50 AM
So a few months ago Feros found and bought 20” staggered Foose Nitrous wheels, we purchased them from a fellow forum member and everything was perfect. They arrived exactly as described, wonderfully packed to prevent damage, an overall good buying experience. We did buy them used, but that’s just a great way to save money.
So near Thanksgiving I took them to a local tire shop that had been recommended to have the TPS moved and the wheels put on the car….
1st problem – shop calls says we need spacers …. After some research and help from forums members I ordered the spacers “just in case” and called the shop and said “put on the wheels and put the car down, they won’t rub” but since I’m just a mere girl they wouldn’t do it until the spacer arrived. I chalked it up to they didn’t want to waste shop time while waiting on the spacers.
They didn’t use the spacers
Night before Thanksgiving I go pick up the car, it’s dark, I check the car and best I can tell all is well. But of course Feros wants pictures right away. Thanksgiving morning, before starting the Turkey or anything else I go out and begin to clean up the rims for official pictures.
2nd problem – Every single rim was damaged WTF? They put the rims pretty side down on the tire machine and scratched or dented them in evenly marked spaces all the way around…. Nooooo the idiots couldn’t stop after damaging one rim, the screwed them all up.
I email Feros pics and damage details, at first he thought it was a joke, but to his horror it was not a joke. http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w108/GeekGrl/Wheel%20Damage/
3rd problem – They jacked the car up using the tail pipes, both are now perfectly smashed with their jack marks. This is dangerous, it’s a wonder the car didn’t fall!
Ok so my neighbor and close friend that recommended the shop took the car to them Friday after Thanksgiving to show them the damage, and the shop owner offered to replace the beauty rings … uhhh …NO… NOT and option ggrrrr.
So Monday I call the shop owner to discuss how this can be made right, his response “I need to talk to your husband or brother” …. Yes, he actually said that to me, now we all know I’m no mechanic but I’m not an idiot either, he had no problem taking the money from me for the work but now because I’m a girl he can’t talk to me BS.
Feros manages to call the shop and they deny doing any work for him, well duh, I paid for it, technically they did the work for me… but that just pissed me off even more.
After many more attempts to resolve this I filed a small claims suit, and won!
Shop owner now owes me almost 2000.00 for the rims and smashed tail pipes, as well as labor rates for Dodge dealership to move everything around.
As of yet I have not received a check, and he did have until Friday to file an appeal, which to my knowledge he has not. The state of Virginia allows me an option to easily take a lien against his property, which I will do if necessary …. After all didn’t I just prove “Don’t mess with my husband’s car on my watch and expect to get away with it, even if I’m a mere girl?”
Luckily Feros will be home soon and I will hand the check to him and he can make the decisions on how to get it corrected.
<Rumbling> “talk to my husband or brother …. My husband’s been deployed for a year; it’s not wise to piss me off just now”
So please avoid Impact Automotive Service in Williamsburg Virginia, ohhh and don’t try to mess with my husband’s car on my watch J
So near Thanksgiving I took them to a local tire shop that had been recommended to have the TPS moved and the wheels put on the car….
1st problem – shop calls says we need spacers …. After some research and help from forums members I ordered the spacers “just in case” and called the shop and said “put on the wheels and put the car down, they won’t rub” but since I’m just a mere girl they wouldn’t do it until the spacer arrived. I chalked it up to they didn’t want to waste shop time while waiting on the spacers.
They didn’t use the spacers
Night before Thanksgiving I go pick up the car, it’s dark, I check the car and best I can tell all is well. But of course Feros wants pictures right away. Thanksgiving morning, before starting the Turkey or anything else I go out and begin to clean up the rims for official pictures.
2nd problem – Every single rim was damaged WTF? They put the rims pretty side down on the tire machine and scratched or dented them in evenly marked spaces all the way around…. Nooooo the idiots couldn’t stop after damaging one rim, the screwed them all up.
I email Feros pics and damage details, at first he thought it was a joke, but to his horror it was not a joke. http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w108/GeekGrl/Wheel%20Damage/
3rd problem – They jacked the car up using the tail pipes, both are now perfectly smashed with their jack marks. This is dangerous, it’s a wonder the car didn’t fall!
Ok so my neighbor and close friend that recommended the shop took the car to them Friday after Thanksgiving to show them the damage, and the shop owner offered to replace the beauty rings … uhhh …NO… NOT and option ggrrrr.
So Monday I call the shop owner to discuss how this can be made right, his response “I need to talk to your husband or brother” …. Yes, he actually said that to me, now we all know I’m no mechanic but I’m not an idiot either, he had no problem taking the money from me for the work but now because I’m a girl he can’t talk to me BS.
Feros manages to call the shop and they deny doing any work for him, well duh, I paid for it, technically they did the work for me… but that just pissed me off even more.
After many more attempts to resolve this I filed a small claims suit, and won!
Shop owner now owes me almost 2000.00 for the rims and smashed tail pipes, as well as labor rates for Dodge dealership to move everything around.
As of yet I have not received a check, and he did have until Friday to file an appeal, which to my knowledge he has not. The state of Virginia allows me an option to easily take a lien against his property, which I will do if necessary …. After all didn’t I just prove “Don’t mess with my husband’s car on my watch and expect to get away with it, even if I’m a mere girl?”
Luckily Feros will be home soon and I will hand the check to him and he can make the decisions on how to get it corrected.
<Rumbling> “talk to my husband or brother …. My husband’s been deployed for a year; it’s not wise to piss me off just now”
So please avoid Impact Automotive Service in Williamsburg Virginia, ohhh and don’t try to mess with my husband’s car on my watch J