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i do not want to comment about the work that has been carried out or the op.
can both sides not get trading standards involved and let them sort it out.
i know it sounds extreme but it will be an end to the matter.
can both sides not get trading standards involved and let them sort it out.
i know it sounds extreme but it will be an end to the matter.
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My advice to Danny would be... If you have no part in EP then keep things separate, get a rep for what you do best not for someone elses work (good or bad)
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hell i even spent a new years eve on the way to the pub under a car, removing part of the gearbox fixing a problem on a mates scooby that a garage i recomended fucked up out of guilt then went out after i managed to sort the issue
i no longer recomend anyone i just mention names of places i have heard such as stu or paul at north yorks when people want cossie stuff ect
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i can honestly say in over 15 years of rst ownership i have only seen 1 cracked head and that was due to the headgasket popping and being driven home over 60 mile with water boiling over every 10 mins and putting stone cold water back in everytime
( not me), got home slapped a second hand head on the same night and the car run sweet as a nut till he sold it on a year later.
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its also why we get heads tested now for all headgasket jobs as its alot of money in parts for a transit head job for it to be taken apart again due to a hair line crack being missed
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which was what i was getting at that he should do, i fucking hate bad garages and even worse i hate seeing good places close due to being out priced by shite places who never last 5 years, im a tight fucker with spending on cars but its cause i have been burned by shite places in my time so try to avoid using places i dont know if i can
hell i even spent a new years eve on the way to the pub under a car, removing part of the gearbox fixing a problem on a mates scooby that a garage i recomended fucked up out of guilt then went out after i managed to sort the issue
i no longer recomend anyone i just mention names of places i have heard such as stu or paul at north yorks when people want cossie stuff ect
hell i even spent a new years eve on the way to the pub under a car, removing part of the gearbox fixing a problem on a mates scooby that a garage i recomended fucked up out of guilt then went out after i managed to sort the issue
i no longer recomend anyone i just mention names of places i have heard such as stu or paul at north yorks when people want cossie stuff ect
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Classic example is rs turbo on rollers bit smokey but we knew it was the valve seals, tuner tells mate turbos fucked, we tell him just tune it up and dont worry about the smoke, gets it home, hour later seals changed and guess what no smoke but people who dont know better would have been right ripped off and still have the same issue after!!, we knew the turbo was ok becauseit came off a mates car as he switched to stage 3 and the car never smoked at all.
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i think the ford scene is lucky to have such great tuners about eg reyland,nms,msd,scs etc etc even around my way we have turbosystems and gt motorsport and used to have castle performance until the owner lost the plot
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faith is a dangerous thing,,, just takes one time to be fucked over then you wont trust anyone
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i took the car to this place and it had snapped the front prop on the motor way..... so i know it was going to have broken alot (escos) so i drop it off for inspection....
when i get a phone call i get told the following is broken
front diff
front prop
front drive shaft
sump (but no oil leak lol)
two lugs that bolt the gearbox to block (on mint 200block)
gearbox
so i say i can get the box /sump/ drive shaft but no the front diff ...
so they agree to rebuild my 800mile ashfield motorsport 200block engine into a 205 block as i wasnt full of money, for Ł2500 and get the car back on the road....
but i said im skint and i will pick it up, to which i get told the cars in bits and its Ł500 to put it back together, so i bite the bullet and say go ahead, but tell them im coming to see it, to which everytime i arrange to view they are closed lol.
anyway a few days later i get a phone call the internals of my engine are fecked and ashfield havent rebuilt it properley, so i take their word for this and pay another load of money and buy a bottom end from them...
anyway i say i want to see all the bits but when i get there all there is, is a smashed gearbox, no broken block ect.... (which i paid Ł2500 to replace)
so anyway i pay the money and take the car to run in.. only for it to stop dead and no start twice on the way home, dead battery (was only there a week)
so i run it in and take it back and tell them the fans that were working are not anymore and i ask why half of my loom is on show, they tell me that my prefectly running rebuilt escos had wiring problems, (they could at least tidy it up)
anyway they had agreeded to fit my brand new stage 3 kit and intercooler which they did and set it up, for me to find on the way home it flat spots like made in 4th.... so i phone him back and get told he will sort it..
next day plugs dead / change them / next day plugs dead again.
so i agree a date to return the car by recovery (after finding they have moved) to get there and find them not there again and no answer on the phones.....
so i pay the Ł230 recovery bill and sell the car....
now i swapped that car for a fiesta st that was worth Ł9.5k and Ł500 cash, but i paid Ł13.5k for this car as it was mint and i spent Ł4500 with them so you can see how much i lost from them.
the car was taken to another tuner by new owner and turned out thy had fucked the new chip and the mapping was shit , but once done the car was mint, and i saw it at ace cafe a few weeks ago....
but for me the fiesta st lost alot more as ford dropped their prices by 3k 2 weeks later
so i ended it up with a Ł6.5k fiesta for a 18k cosworth due to shit workmanship
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exactly! car "tuning" is a profession just like plumbers,electricians etc..
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Are ep sorting out these people issues, i dont know as its going to be expensive when it involves turbos welded to manifolds etc........
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you still dont resort to insults, hes a paying customer and you try to sort it out so both parties are satisfied, surely thats good business practice!
Are ep sorting out these people issues, i dont know as its going to be expensive when it involves turbos welded to manifolds etc........
Are ep sorting out these people issues, i dont know as its going to be expensive when it involves turbos welded to manifolds etc........
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its true martin but it completely put me off modified cars for two yrs.
i took the car to this place and it had snapped the front prop on the motor way..... so i know it was going to have broken alot (escos) so i drop it off for inspection....
when i get a phone call i get told the following is broken
front diff
front prop
front drive shaft
sump (but no oil leak lol)
two lugs that bolt the gearbox to block (on mint 200block)
gearbox
so i say i can get the box /sump/ drive shaft but no the front diff ...
so they agree to rebuild my 800mile ashfield motorsport 200block engine into a 205 block as i wasnt full of money, for Ł2500 and get the car back on the road....
but i said im skint and i will pick it up, to which i get told the cars in bits and its Ł500 to put it back together, so i bite the bullet and say go ahead, but tell them im coming to see it, to which everytime i arrange to view they are closed lol.
anyway a few days later i get a phone call the internals of my engine are fecked and ashfield havent rebuilt it properley, so i take their word for this and pay another load of money and buy a bottom end from them...
anyway i say i want to see all the bits but when i get there all there is, is a smashed gearbox, no broken block ect.... (which i paid Ł2500 to replace)
so anyway i pay the money and take the car to run in.. only for it to stop dead and no start twice on the way home, dead battery (was only there a week)
so i run it in and take it back and tell them the fans that were working are not anymore and i ask why half of my loom is on show, they tell me that my prefectly running rebuilt escos had wiring problems, (they could at least tidy it up)
anyway they had agreeded to fit my brand new stage 3 kit and intercooler which they did and set it up, for me to find on the way home it flat spots like made in 4th.... so i phone him back and get told he will sort it..
next day plugs dead / change them / next day plugs dead again.
so i agree a date to return the car by recovery (after finding they have moved) to get there and find them not there again and no answer on the phones.....
so i pay the Ł230 recovery bill and sell the car....
now i swapped that car for a fiesta st that was worth Ł9.5k and Ł500 cash, but i paid Ł13.5k for this car as it was mint and i spent Ł4500 with them so you can see how much i lost from them.
the car was taken to another tuner by new owner and turned out thy had fucked the new chip and the mapping was shit , but once done the car was mint, and i saw it at ace cafe a few weeks ago....
but for me the fiesta st lost alot more as ford dropped their prices by 3k 2 weeks later
so i ended it up with a Ł6.5k fiesta for a 18k cosworth due to shit workmanship
i took the car to this place and it had snapped the front prop on the motor way..... so i know it was going to have broken alot (escos) so i drop it off for inspection....
when i get a phone call i get told the following is broken
front diff
front prop
front drive shaft
sump (but no oil leak lol)
two lugs that bolt the gearbox to block (on mint 200block)
gearbox
so i say i can get the box /sump/ drive shaft but no the front diff ...
so they agree to rebuild my 800mile ashfield motorsport 200block engine into a 205 block as i wasnt full of money, for Ł2500 and get the car back on the road....
but i said im skint and i will pick it up, to which i get told the cars in bits and its Ł500 to put it back together, so i bite the bullet and say go ahead, but tell them im coming to see it, to which everytime i arrange to view they are closed lol.
anyway a few days later i get a phone call the internals of my engine are fecked and ashfield havent rebuilt it properley, so i take their word for this and pay another load of money and buy a bottom end from them...
anyway i say i want to see all the bits but when i get there all there is, is a smashed gearbox, no broken block ect.... (which i paid Ł2500 to replace)
so anyway i pay the money and take the car to run in.. only for it to stop dead and no start twice on the way home, dead battery (was only there a week)
so i run it in and take it back and tell them the fans that were working are not anymore and i ask why half of my loom is on show, they tell me that my prefectly running rebuilt escos had wiring problems, (they could at least tidy it up)
anyway they had agreeded to fit my brand new stage 3 kit and intercooler which they did and set it up, for me to find on the way home it flat spots like made in 4th.... so i phone him back and get told he will sort it..
next day plugs dead / change them / next day plugs dead again.
so i agree a date to return the car by recovery (after finding they have moved) to get there and find them not there again and no answer on the phones.....
so i pay the Ł230 recovery bill and sell the car....
now i swapped that car for a fiesta st that was worth Ł9.5k and Ł500 cash, but i paid Ł13.5k for this car as it was mint and i spent Ł4500 with them so you can see how much i lost from them.
the car was taken to another tuner by new owner and turned out thy had fucked the new chip and the mapping was shit , but once done the car was mint, and i saw it at ace cafe a few weeks ago....
but for me the fiesta st lost alot more as ford dropped their prices by 3k 2 weeks later
so i ended it up with a Ł6.5k fiesta for a 18k cosworth due to shit workmanship
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its true martin but it completely put me off modified cars for two yrs.
i took the car to this place and it had snapped the front prop on the motor way..... so i know it was going to have broken alot (escos) so i drop it off for inspection....
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so i ended it up with a Ł6.5k fiesta for a 18k cosworth due to shit workmanship
i took the car to this place and it had snapped the front prop on the motor way..... so i know it was going to have broken alot (escos) so i drop it off for inspection....
<snipped horror story>
so i ended it up with a Ł6.5k fiesta for a 18k cosworth due to shit workmanship
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to me this could be sorted without fuss, pay for morphs mapping as i think thats the only issue he had, rebuild d4,s car as its fucked and only lasted less than a week,maybe a nice 230 bhp spec which will be reliable with johns s1 i dont know as he has broke the car now but as i read it he has kept an ecu and loom which he promised to return, so get together and iron out a compromise, then stick to cossies as no one with them seems to have issues with ep,s workmanship.
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and power engineering if you have a rst as Ian ball is back and hes realy good with them
i cant comment on reyland /scs as ive never used or my friends......
a mate of mine used msd and was very happy too
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mate what is your problem with rst owners???, this is the third comment ive seen of you calling us all chavs, every rst owner i know are in our late thirties early forties so not exactly chavs and have been into them for twenty years and have no interest in cosworths etc
, some rst owners just have them in our blood and know what they need and spend accordingly, some people dont use the spanners so take them to a tuner and expect a decent job!!, if they cant build a cvh then they are fucking useless imo
, some rst owners just have them in our blood and know what they need and spend accordingly, some people dont use the spanners so take them to a tuner and expect a decent job!!, if they cant build a cvh then they are fucking useless imo
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think i`ll just have a go at learning to map my own car. sounds cheaper, if i fuck it up its my bad.
feel sorry for all you guys that got shafted, i`ve been a vehicle tech for 15 years, believe me there are some right dodgy cowboys out there, not all of us are scamming cunts though. hope you get some cash back guys.
feel sorry for all you guys that got shafted, i`ve been a vehicle tech for 15 years, believe me there are some right dodgy cowboys out there, not all of us are scamming cunts though. hope you get some cash back guys.
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The tuner is not always to blame take a step back guys please .
i have nothing to hide and would be happy with the OP first post and then my reply , then locked so all can veiw and make there own mind up..
There is alot more to this one behined the scenes which im pretty sure JOHN HARVEY would not really like me to bring up !!!
You are all taking one side..
i have nothing to hide and would be happy with the OP first post and then my reply , then locked so all can veiw and make there own mind up..
There is alot more to this one behined the scenes which im pretty sure JOHN HARVEY would not really like me to bring up !!!
You are all taking one side..
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i must say that this is turning into an assasination of eps reputation.
the problem i find with customers is the statement "my mate says....." and 99/100 the mate doesnt know the full story.
the only way to solve this is for ep and the op to sit down and talk,not throw insults at each other.
the problem i find with customers is the statement "my mate says....." and 99/100 the mate doesnt know the full story.
the only way to solve this is for ep and the op to sit down and talk,not throw insults at each other.
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IF YOU REMEMBER I ASKED JANO TO BUILD THE ENGINE FOR ME AND YOU WAS PAYING HIM DIRECT OUT OF YOUR PERSONAL ACOUNT AND NOT BUISNESS SO CHARLIE1 DIDNT FIND OUT
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I SAID BUT YOU HAVE NOT PAID FOR THE JOB.. AND I WAS HAPPY TO PAY ANOTHER TUNER DIRECT TO SORT SAID ISSUE. NOPE BECAUSE YOU NEVER PAYED JANO ODDKID
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I SAID BUT YOU HAVE NOT PAID FOR THE JOB.. AND I WAS HAPPY TO PAY ANOTHER TUNER DIRECT TO SORT SAID ISSUE. NOPE BECAUSE YOU NEVER PAYED JANO ODDKID
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