So I am just laying around last night and I get a phone call from some guy saying he is sitting in my parking lot. (at my business) Tells me he found out I took my car to BIG3 performance and I was going to get screwed! I jumped in my truck and drove to the shop to meet him. He proceeds to tell me that this shop has had his car for a year and shows me a piston which had valve knock marks on it.
HE tell me His story is they gave him a great deal on his car to be their prototype. He says they only let him drive it for a month in the summer and then they had to take it to shows and apparently to be worked on. Says they put 600miles it and he has barely driven it. His car is still in the shop a year later! Explains to me they have been sued a number of times and also tells me their lead mechanic quit and started his own shop. Now he and the mechanic are trying to warn everybody who has a car their. The mechanic told him i was the owner of INfinity Exteriors so he looked me up and drove to my shop.
At this point in time I am freaking out!!! I call the mechanic and he starts telling me all kinds of **** how he rips people off......but the conversation eventually turns to me taking my car to him and he will do it under the table for a better price. I question him about the prototype mustang (he is the one who built it) and why he did check valve clearance - he tells me the owner rushed him through it and wouldn't allow it.
Says the owner is violent and that I would never get my money back and I would have to call the cops to get my car out.
So I am livid and I drive to Big3 and confront him. I tell him he is a piece of **** and threaten to kick his ass if he doesn't give me my car and money back NOW! He is scared ****less so his dad (other owner) comes running out and tries to calm me down. Dad says he will return my car and money if I want....so I start to calm down. He tells me that -Forrest-(the mechanic) is pissed because they fired him and now he trying to give them a bad name. They tell me Forrest was sabotoging car on the way out because he knew he was leaving and starting his own shop. I start questioning them about the mustang and they tell me IT'S NOT EVEN THIS OTHER GUYS CAR. They showed me the agreement they had signed AND NOTARIZED together starting that Big3 had the car for the first year anytime they wanted and had a 3000mile alotment. The agreement ends next month.
So now I dont' know what to think. I talked them for a few hours and in the end I told them I don't want my engine opened. I am going to have them bolt on the paxton and exhaust and do the tune. Kind of hard to mess that up.
They have spent a lot of time working with me and ordering parts so I feel I owe them alittle something. They invested almost 9k in the software for the v-10 and had the software company flying in for the first tune. The magazine feature was set and alot of the parts were comped based on that feature.
I just don't know who or what to believe. I checked online and they have never been sued
HE tell me His story is they gave him a great deal on his car to be their prototype. He says they only let him drive it for a month in the summer and then they had to take it to shows and apparently to be worked on. Says they put 600miles it and he has barely driven it. His car is still in the shop a year later! Explains to me they have been sued a number of times and also tells me their lead mechanic quit and started his own shop. Now he and the mechanic are trying to warn everybody who has a car their. The mechanic told him i was the owner of INfinity Exteriors so he looked me up and drove to my shop.
At this point in time I am freaking out!!! I call the mechanic and he starts telling me all kinds of **** how he rips people off......but the conversation eventually turns to me taking my car to him and he will do it under the table for a better price. I question him about the prototype mustang (he is the one who built it) and why he did check valve clearance - he tells me the owner rushed him through it and wouldn't allow it.
Says the owner is violent and that I would never get my money back and I would have to call the cops to get my car out.So I am livid and I drive to Big3 and confront him. I tell him he is a piece of **** and threaten to kick his ass if he doesn't give me my car and money back NOW! He is scared ****less so his dad (other owner) comes running out and tries to calm me down. Dad says he will return my car and money if I want....so I start to calm down. He tells me that -Forrest-(the mechanic) is pissed because they fired him and now he trying to give them a bad name. They tell me Forrest was sabotoging car on the way out because he knew he was leaving and starting his own shop. I start questioning them about the mustang and they tell me IT'S NOT EVEN THIS OTHER GUYS CAR. They showed me the agreement they had signed AND NOTARIZED together starting that Big3 had the car for the first year anytime they wanted and had a 3000mile alotment. The agreement ends next month.
So now I dont' know what to think. I talked them for a few hours and in the end I told them I don't want my engine opened. I am going to have them bolt on the paxton and exhaust and do the tune. Kind of hard to mess that up.
They have spent a lot of time working with me and ordering parts so I feel I owe them alittle something. They invested almost 9k in the software for the v-10 and had the software company flying in for the first tune. The magazine feature was set and alot of the parts were comped based on that feature.
I just don't know who or what to believe. I checked online and they have never been sued
~juli
