Got screwed by a diesel shop

Not taking any sides since it seems like issues on both sides, but I was burned once on reusing o-rings on injectors and that was enough for me. I never reuse o-rings now, no matter how good they look or how new they are!
 
Infamous1 said:
no way i would take it back!!! It would be like asking a rape victim to come back over for a few drinks!!!

LDP may have good intentions but it wont be good for either of them so just drop it both ways!!!
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Exactly my point...so I'm not sure where the folks saying 'he's trying to make it right' or 'just bring it back' are coming from. I don't think anyone in their right mind would willingly bring back a rig after it was released once already in sub-par fashion. I know any time I've 'just brought something back', the situation didn't really get any better and I still regretted it...and I'd bet 9 out of 10 times the sentiment is the same across the board. I understand custom 'this or that' takes time and usually doesn't follow a strict schedule, but in my experience, that's presented up front. If someone tells me they can do a job 100% complete, up front, that's what I'm going to hold them to. As a customer, I don't really care what your shop schedule is like, what happened in your personal life, etc. etc., if you say you can do it, then do it. If they can't or return a sub-par result, I'm going to be pissed, send my business elsewhere and let folks know about my experience.

I understand the e-bashing is fun and the buddy system requires you to align yourself with the familiar side, but bs aside and add a little logic, and I bet most of us would react the same way.
 
UTfball68 said:
Exactly my point...so I'm not sure where the folks saying 'he's trying to make it right' or 'just bring it back' are coming from. I don't think anyone in their right mind would willingly bring back a rig after it was released once already in sub-par fashion. I know any time I've 'just brought something back', the situation didn't really get any better and I still regretted it...and I'd bet 9 out of 10 times the sentiment is the same across the board. I understand custom 'this or that' takes time and usually doesn't follow a strict schedule, but in my experience, that's presented up front. If someone tells me they can do a job 100% complete, up front, that's what I'm going to hold them to. As a customer, I don't really care what your shop schedule is like, what happened in your personal life, etc. etc., if you say you can do it, then do it. If they can't or return a sub-par result, I'm going to be pissed, send my business elsewhere and let folks know about my experience.

I understand the e-bashing is fun and the buddy system requires you to align yourself with the familiar side, but bs aside and add a little logic, and I bet most of us would react the same way.
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Thank you i would be crazy to let this guy make my rig worse ill just fix it myself and consider it money lost
 
You took a perfectly good running vehicle into a shop to have performance upgrades done to it prior to your vacation that you ABSOLUTELY had to have in order to go on vacation... with no contingency plan?

you ought to be mad at yourself too. It's not like it was an oil change and a rotate and balance.
 
Im currently running what is to believe is a stock tune if it is i dunno.


And i spoke with him for a week or 2 before i brought it to him and he said a week is plenty of time and as it got closer to completion he was continuously texting me sayin he had another issue after another issue if he said i may need some extra time i woulda waited till after my trip.
 
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Don't know either party, but if that wire at the battery is any indication of a shop's work.....man, I don't think I'd be too inclined to take it back, either. There is simply no excuse for that to have ever been done. That would make me wonder what else wasn't right. And wouldn't exactly give me a lot of confidence that if I took it back it would be much better.

Sorry, but that's just bush league work right there, I don't care who did it, or how much of a rush they were in.

Now, the OP is, IMO, going a little overboard from what I might have said myself, but it looks as if there's at least a good reason for him to be upset.
 
Sound like another 90210 4x4 time except this one is 90210 diesel dicked!!! :fuck-you:
 
Yea but im very unfamiliar with a dmax i work on powerstrokes. I figured take it to someone who knows em and it would be right. Boy was i mistaken
 
I am glad that I am not a business owner who has to put up with this. He offered to make it right- take him up on it. If you don't feel like that is good enough for you, learn to do it yourself. The continued rant isn't doing much for your case, IMHO. We had a customer at the bicycle shop do something like this the other day. He came in and sounded like he was ok with us not being able to get a part for him within a week (special order item), after he had dropped his bike off. A few days later we were bombarded with several page long emails about all kinds of stupid stuff. Don't know how the owner is handling it, but I'm glad I don't have to put up with it. Man up.
 
Okay, so you're a mechanic that works on diesel trucks and you took your diesel truck to a different mechanic to get it worked on because you were unfamiliar with the Dmax? Not to mention this other mechanic has tried to get you to bring the truck back so he "finish" the job, which you refuse to do, and decided to fix it yourself. You obviously own a computer and it connects to the internet so let me help you with your problem.

http://bit.ly/MYmUOb

http://bit.ly/MYmZ4H

http://bit.ly/MYn6x8

Your argument is invalid.

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The picture told me all I needed to know.
- No excuse for a stripped wire shoved under a battery terminal
- No excuse for an undersized Optima on a D-Max other than someone has upgrade fever and "optimas are the bomb"...

One is scared the other is glad.
Flame on.
 
Ron said:
The picture told me all I needed to know.
- No excuse for a stripped wire shoved under a battery terminal
- No excuse for an undersized Optima on a D-Max other than someone has upgrade fever and "optimas are the bomb"...

One is scared the other is glad.
Flame on.
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damn though why would you be a powerstroke mechanic and drive a duramax you have no idea how to work on?? I am a gas engine mechanic so I primarily stick to what I know or can figure out, that being said i am fairly confident if a need for me to procure a diesel did occur, i could as Twistedjeepster said google my way through the repair!!!
just sayin...........
 
You couldnt give me a stroke i bought a dmax cause its a good truck. I thought id rather have someone who knows how to work on a dmax to get it right. If it was just the tunes id gladly bring it back but every part of my truck he worked on is hacked ill figure out how to do it myself. I dont butcher customers trucks cause then my job is on the line and i take pride in my work. Apparently he doesnt.
 
I'm an automotive technician but that doesn't stop me from working on my Harley built Buell. And I don't mean maintain. I mean it lost spark, diagnosed the problem, and now waiting on parts to repair it (internal timing failure). Are you a lube tech or something, And this is just to much for you? It's a mechanical and basic electrical thing. Why wouldn't you do it yourself?

On the other side. I would be too embarrassed to show my face if I did wiring like that for a paying customer....



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Lol lube tech, im a 6.0 and 6.4 line tech i didnt have time to do it im pretty busy with side work so i hired someone. My mistake
 
Lol thats like saying oh I had someone build me a roll cage..... He did a shitty job and I died......

If your gonna put your name on a job you best make sure it's perfect. That's how our shop is and that's how PJ @ M&M is
 
tireburner1975 said:
I'm an automotive technician but that doesn't stop me from working on my Harley built Buell. And I don't mean maintain. I mean it lost spark, diagnosed the problem, and now waiting on parts to repair it (internal timing failure). Are you a lube tech or something, And this is just to much for you? It's a mechanical and basic electrical thing. Why wouldn't you do it yourself?
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I'm an accountant...I hate doing my own taxes. I have had someone else handle them before. I know plenty of other accountants that do the same. Between not wanting to work on our own stuff, and being too busy to work on our own stuff, does that make us worse accountants???
 
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