got my car in the workshop today for the quaiffe diff to be fitted the oil leak sorting and the brakes all refurbed and replaced

got a call from my mechanic to tell me they have supplied 4 of the same spacers so he cant put it back together nad can anyone get hold of hi spec noooooooo
really pissed off as i was looking forward to getting her back for a drive this wknd

 

lol people are always complaing about hi spec why do people still deal with them ?

 

Was just thinking exactly the same

 

i bought the brakes back in april b4 i heard all of the bad press wish i saved up more for ap's or somthing now but hey thats life

 

youd of thought hi spec would get there act together after all the complaints they must get anyway mate sorry to here your bad news

 

Same here.

I also had a bit of aggro with them

 

hopefully i can get it sorted b4 the wknd just spunked £90 taxing it for no reason otherwise really feel like giving up on this car its just cost me over 1300 to get everything sorted out on it and was really looking forward to spending my first day off in ages having a drive!!!! keeping my fingers crossed to get somthing sorted with the parts for tommorow

 

good luck grant...

 

it never rains but always pours for me lol spose another few days wont make no difference

 

cossies are all the same mate!
the first time you give it the boot you will forget all the bad times and have a big smile on your face!

 

mates had shit with them too mate, hes warped 2 sets of their 'un-warpable' disks, class

so hes waiting for a new pair to be sent through. he also said its a bitch to get hold of them

 

was hoping some one was gonna say thats real unusual etc

 

If you wanna speak to geoff(hi spec),go to the nec ,He will have his stand at the

autosports show as usual,I would think!

puddy

 

i was told he was there but unfortunatly im working all wknd plus dont really want to ahve to pay out for travel and a ticket when the kit should of been supplied correctly but thabnks for the offer though puddy

 

Might be hard to get hold of them now until next week as a few of them are gonna be at Autosport international as mentioned above. I find best time to speak to them is in the morning, in the afternnon I often find it difficult to get an answer.

 

i want my car back for the wknd damn so pissed off

 

The man that never makes any mis-takes, never makes anything......

Obviously, i havn't been a member of this site for long, it seems as though you would all go a lot further as a collective mind, if you all helped rectify the problems, rather than winged about them?

 

oh no, bet your well pissed off cos i know how much you were looking forward to gettin it back this weekend!! dont worry, she will be back soon and even better than before

in reply to aRSe - i dont think people whinge about problems they have on here, its more like we all share views and if grant had seen a post like this and all the other bad press about hi spec before hand he would not have bought them like he said!! at the time he was told they were the best for the money he had By him "shareing" whats happened on here its done me (and no doubt others) a favour as i wont get the products now. Keep up the whinging imo

 

hope you get it sorted soon grant

 

Well said Trace. to aRSe.

 

 

I had problems with hi spec when I had my rover coupe, it took them 3 attempts to make the correct spec brake hose's but they kept on getting them wrong I gave up in the end, very poor service !

Duncan

 

Racey, i probably don't come across too well (not an understatement, honest). I build fast road/race cars as a sideline, for me it's a hobby (see tiny's V8 Sapphire). tiny's car came into my workshop to have the exhaust rectified, which then lead on to a whole herd load of work on the car.
The problems i encountered with suppliers (some big reputable names), went from annoying, to literally unbelieveable, and the time penalties incurred were a joke. The only way that car has got to a state where it can be driven was by persistance, and working to solutions, not resting with problems.
Quite a few people have said to me, why don't i build cars as my sole business. Absolutely, no way, people just don't understand the kind of crap, and the run arounds you recieve in the industry. And as far as i'm concerned the buck stops at me if the job aint done on time, and i don't need the hastle (any hastle come to that).
Obviously, if the kit from 'Hi Spec' was incomplete for one reason or another, it aint right. But no ones perfect, and i've seen some seriously talented people torn to shreds on this site, imo their input/talent is a loss to the industry. I think it would have been smarter to have found a constructive way round the problem, rather than tackling it head on, and blowing it way out of proportion? We're only human, after all.

 

got it sorted in the end friday as i went to dartford with the incorrect parts and collected the correct parts