R5FORD

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Would you buy ep after this thread? This is why i only use SCS for my engines.. There warrantied when im all over in australia.. Harvey goes out his way to make sure im happy so im happy to go there again and again.

morph

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These are the reasons why companies like EP still survive because they have people like you who make out its the customers fault???

chav scrotes? far from that as possible.
my s1 was my summer car only.
i have a dailey new car.
i wanted independant management and poly bushes and brake lines sorted on my car i agreed a price, at no point was there any issue of money or mention that i need to leave money, i ended up with luke selling me cock and bull story when he blew my turbo up trying to extract too much power from it on the dyno, he chucked on a massive cossie turbo which was really laggy on my car and runined the power. I PAID LUKE IN FULL BEFORE TAKING MY CAR AWAY.


ALL THIS STARTED 2 YEARS AGO and is still carrying on now with D4's cars which he has just got back oct 2010 with countless problems and he also PAID IN FULL BEFORE COLLECTING CAR.
AT NO POINT WAS THERE ANY ISSUES WITH MONEY EXCEPT WHEN WE WOULD GET PHONES CALLS FROM LUKE ASKING TO TRANSFER SOME MONEY FOR SO CALLED PARTS HE HAD TO GET!

TO BLAME CUSTOMERS JUST SHOWS MOST PEOPLE ON HERE HOW MUCH YOU REALLY ARE TRYING TO DEFEND SOMEONE WHO IS A CON MAN.

morph

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Agree people make mistakes, so should it not be that once your car goes back that all those mistakes are rectified? if the second or third time those mistakes are not sorted would you carryon using these Cowboys?

And 3 in a row? is that a mistake or out and out pure back street bodging like those sahdy garages used to do in the 80's.

as for mapping, just ask jampsort how bad my cars mapping was.
as for d4's his car lasted 2 days.

Karlos G

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I dont know Morph or D4 but I know John and you are way off the mark with that mate!
There is no excuse for the quality of EP's work no matter who the customer is, I would struggle to do the work as badly as they have I really would! lol

**caz**

Yeh that's right, the phone calls tellin you ya need to transfer money to him cos he needed it to but parts! And I remember 1 time john even drove the 80 mile there n back to give him some money!!!

JoeRS22

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"to which the car was taken back and the cold start was sorted free of charge, and spent another 2 hours free of charge on the rr"

Enhanced Performance

I am reading this thread and will reply now please hold on posting any more untill i have posted my side of events.!

Lets stop the train get off the band wagon and get some facts out please.

also im ok thanks for the concern cant say the same for the st

Mark 3D

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I cant really get too involved with this thread as I'm a moderator on this site.

All i will say is that I had my car mapped by Luke and he did a fantastic job.

Also Luke was the only trader I knew who offered FREE Rolling Road days and provided free food etc etc and ALL of us who turned up to those days had a great time... so IMO he certainly isnt all about the money.

Although I have not known Luke and Danny very long they have always been very helpful to me and have taken plenty of time to explain things to me which as a non mapping/engine expert I found very useful.

I for one will happily continue using Luke/EP in the future.


What I do find very dissapointing is the amount of people jumping on this thread saying very nasty things about Luke without having the benefit of the full facts of whats happened or at least hearing the other side of the story... I do not know the full facts myself so cannot comment either way.

As has been mentioned numerous times before in this thread Luke was involved in a serious RTA yesterday so at the moment cannot defend himself while people on here rip his company/reputation to shreds.

For such a poor engine builder he hasnt made a bad job of Dannys Escort (see the video of it up agains Si B's Evo in the video room).


Edited: Luke has responded just before i posted this!!!!

Gazzonator

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Still an inconvenience though

timotei1980

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I'm tempted to post my account of what has happened to me at enhanced performance but i am due to go back there to talk face to face first.

JoeRS22

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but it got sorted very quickly and i was happy!
i find luke very good and didnt push my car to the limits, in fact he set the car up with a little less power due to it not having a 200 block and was honest and said it will be reliable at the power ive got ot which the car gets a hammering and is ok at present.

hope all is well luke

gaz s1

WTF, so all rst owners are chavs!!, spending that type of money on rsts is not what chav scrotes do what a load of bollocks you speak, silicone injectors in and new turbos welded to mainifolds etc, not exactly a high standard of work is it!! and cvh,s are piss easy to rebuild properly anyway, i can do it and i aint no expert, so a tuner should deffo not get it wrong!!, they had the cars set up and stil lrun like bags of shit, joke imo and should not be in business, yea things can go wrong sometimes but if you bodge it they go wrong EVERYTIME!. didnt john spend thousands on his and only running 15 psi, fuck knows where the money went and still fucked after throwing crazy money at it,, fuck me i could sort a reliable 15 psi rst using second hand fucking parts on a really low budget but nthese cowboys cant, joke imo

Gazzonator

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As long as your happy with everything mate, that's the main thing!

BRAMMER

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If Luke specialises in mapping and Danny on the spanners then it can't be hard to sort that out - like many on here have mentioned Danny is genuine and a massive help he goes out of his way to assist PF members but this thread could potentially ruin the business, feel sorry for Danny as he has spent the best part of 18 months promoting EP.

slim1978

i can only coment on the work that i have had done by luke and danny and as usual i have been more than happy with everything iv had done

i would use danny, luke and ep every time i have used other tuners in the past and have been left with a bad result

i think danny has been slagged off for something that he had nothing to do with and if it was me i would have the balls to talk to him face to face rather than being a key board hero !!!!!!!

there is defo more to this and as we all know 2 sides to every story !

d4 rst

I have done that as well Ł100 here or there more like Ł500 MATE.

d4 rst

HI luke hope u are well (my car is not)

**caz**

I think you'll find they never got together on this!! I think its something John wanted to do a long time ago, but gave EP the benefit of the doubt that mistakes do happen, and yes he was treated badly, and he wouldn't name the company that fucked his car up, but seeing that D4 and morph have also had very similar issues, i agree that he should of shown people just the kind of work that comes out of there to warn others from losing the money and cars that they have worked so hard for!

I know for one i would appreciate being warned off of a company like that!

d4 rst

I just got my car back 4 mouths ago mate.

gaz s1

D4 how much money did you spend there to last 2 days?

Moonstone Mo

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If the workmanship was that poor time and time agian,why not just get the car out of there and take it elsewhere????

if the chaps claiming it was one fuck up after another why keep going back?

**caz**

ok let me put it another way.... you buy something from a store, its faulty, what do you do....you take it back, you get a replacement, if its faulty again after the store wont replace, they repair it! That makes no difference here, the car was worked on by EP, it went wrong, they repair it, it went wrong again, you get "Dont worry We will sort it for you" blah blah blah, as said before the gift of the gab in this place was phenomonal(sp) Thats why it went back there, the money had been spent, it wasn't down to john to take it elsewhere and pay yet more money to someone else, it was down to the company that fucked it up to sort it!

BRAMMER

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If you had payed for a job and it wasn't right and the garage offered to repair at their cost you would take it back, if you hadn't the addition funds to repair elsewhere you would trust the garage and continue to have it repaired until in the end it was obvious it was completely fucked which is what i was the issue in the OP

Rs Cosworth 1

Because Luke gauranteed me it would be fixed correctly each time!!! I do believe mistakes happen, but in the state (supposed finished car) was a fucking piss take!!! See you all later I have just shown the work that cones out of there! It's upto YOU wether you trust them ! All evidence is there via pics and friends of mine who have seen the job and what they did to it!!!

Moonstone Mo

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Fairplay,but if after every time it was getting re sorted and coming back with another issue not once,not twice but on numerous occasions why not just take the car back..get it looked at elsewhere at the expense of EP rather than go round in the viscious circle?and keep getting the car back in a worse state.

Seems theres grey areas in this situation..hope its sorted Danny.

**caz**

If you read back over my replies ... Luke had agreed with John to pay for his car to be sorted elsewhere, but he failed to send the money to the other company, constantly "ill do it friday" , "i didnt get a chance ill do it on so and so day" so that route was tried, the company that was goin to take on the work would not touch it without the money being sent over, which considering the circumstances i dont blame them but as luke never did do as he said with that, of course that never happened either!

d4 rst

Is that why my car is FUCKED MATE. luke said he can get 300BHP ALL DAY LONG, I can give you guys the engine back will you fix it and show all that you are not that BAD GUYS?

d4 rst

Do you know how long i was trying to get car back all he said soon soon. then i just came and took the car.

d4 rst

LUKE i did not what all this shit mate.

Mark 3D

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Why get involved then!?

Enhanced Performance

ok john came to me with a list of problems from another tuner ...

here is my account of events..

john booked the car in first off and asked me to recover from basingstoke which i did at my costthe work completed was as follows:-

remove sump and inspect to see if pec rods and wossner pistons were there ..
check main and big end bearings
replace sump with new gasket.
fit new gates cam belt kit
fit flamer kit
find blow from turbo . which was one of the core assembally bolts missing and reqired removal ..re fit to replace.
re do fan loom
replace various wires and connectors.
wire in erl 5th injector
replace engine oil
replace gear box oil
rolling road set up
replace all jubalie clips with new

AT NO TIME DID I SAY I WOULD WARRENTY AND ENGINE I DID NOT BUILD I MEARLY REPORTED TO HIS DEMAND.

total including recovery 1200 pounds.


John leaves in car happy then calls to say its running rough and he thought it was the metering unit. i said i have a spare one and he was welcome to come and use my workshop to change and set up .... as he was tight on money.

He came up and did this and at which time i pointed out the tappets were very noisy..He replied that it was a new cam and not wo worry so i only gave him my opinion.

He then left again and called must have been a week later to say it was running on 3 cylinders.
I said get it in and lets look .

We took the rocker cover off and found number 3 inlet follower detroyed and cam had it.. also head badly dammaged

So i reported this and he said he will supply me with said second hand cam and cylinder head so ..

work as follows

Strip head
skim head
re lap valves in
re fit cam
supply and fit new lifters
fit head with new gaskets etc
oil change
check on dyno and road


bill 500 pounds


Car leaves john is happy then phones up going mental as the car is on 3 cylinders again..

I said bring it back which he got it recovered and i paid for at a cost of 380 pounds to which he only payed 200 back.

We inspected the car again to find exactly the same fault with the cam.

I said i would like to stip clean and build the engine as clearly somthing was amiss.


He agreed and i qouted around 1500 pounds.

we stripped the engine and list as follows

fit new piston rings
fit new crank and shell ( his was a mess)
fit new oil pump
new cambelt and gaskets etc
rebuild head again.
fit new cvh34 cam kit
convert to efi and fit gotech ecu

.... 1500 pounds

he then got carried away and wanted a zetec built then changed his mind again and wanted to procced with the cvh.

We carried on with the build but then he started phonning up arguing about the price and what had happend with the cams etc.

buy this time it was in the car running and i could see i was not going to get paid..

after a week of arguing i said fuck it just give me 500 pounds ( cost of ecu) and call it a day.

he agreed and offered 600 pounds which i thought ok and just wanted the thing out my hair tbh.

anyway collection day cam he turnned up with no money and said he had to go and drop his mums car off first in the s1 in york and he would pay on the way home me being me i said yes.

any way a day passed and i called him to see when he would return and he replied" im at heathrow ill be with you soon" anyway he then called back to say the car was fucked and the aa were comming to recover him..

Half hour passed and i called him to see if he was getting it brought to the workshop or his house to which he replied im home ????? BLOODY HELL THAT WAS A QUICK RECOVERY..

any way next day we spoke and he said the engine was "fucked" and did not want to bring the car back and he was not paying

I said ok book it in with another tuner and ill pay for what ever needs sorting.

any way he shoped around and i said no worries let me no when the car is ready and ill call said tuner and pay the bill . BUT HE DID NOT WANT THAT JUST FOR ME TO GIVE HIM 1500 POUNDS..

I SAID BUT YOU HAVE NOT PAID FOR THE JOB.. AND I WAS HAPPY TO PAY ANOTHER TUNER DIRECT TO SORT SAID ISSUE.

A couple of weeks went passed and he phoned up saying he had taken the car to bits and was selling and wanted me to pay him 1600 pounds or he was going to post on here.

I had already seen him selling the stripped engine components which were in good condition and saved the pics.

HE SUGGESTED TO ME THAT I PAY HIM 1600 AND HE WILL GIVE ME MY ECU AND LOOM BACK AND THATS THE LAST ILL HERE FROM HIM AND NOTHING WILL BE PUT ON HERE ( I HAVE THE PM HE SENT STATING THIS)

after thinking about it and the fact the ecu was worth more than the cost price to him i said ok and paid him and low and behold never got the ecu back.

THIS WAS HIS TERMS OF SETTELING THE MATTER NOT MINE AND I FORFILLED.

ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL ME AS IM NOT ONE FOR BIENG ON HERE LOTS 01403 257257

PS ASK YOURSELF THIS GUYS .... IT WAS SETTELED ON HIS TERMS AND HE SAID THAT WAS THE END OF THE MATTER AND A YEAR AGO..

Enhanced Performance

Last time we spoke you were up in arms that Jamsport were trying to charge you 600 pounds just for the priverlage of looking at your car which had a blown turbo which was under warrenty
And you wanted to get the car out of there ..

As for proving im not bad you no im not i have said to you every time you called i would get it back together at no cost. and vice would sort the turbo ..

now get off the band waggon call me and you will get it sorted dude.

and you never just came and got your car you arranged to finnaly pick it up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

StephenC

Im losing the plot on here, its thicker than treacle...
So who's responsible for this?


and whats the crack (mind the pun!) with this stage 3 head not getting fitted but not been told about either???

Enhanced Performance

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Quote:
Originally Posted by S1 JOHN S1
Right luke i have sold the car it go's tomorrow,

The money you was paying jano and gary can you forward to me as i have sold the S1 at a total loss,

Once you have payed me luke, You'll never hear from me again,

So if you could please pay ASAP as i need a car i can use! As tbh you have been dragging your feet about the whole situation!

CheeRS.


send me your phone number dude please and yes this is fine .. ps are you goona post the ecu and loom back ??

regards luke


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crazycage

i would love to see some better pics of that inlet .

focusrrx87

Maybe I was to quick to jump on the bandwagon.

Was just worried. Luke phoned me this morning to assure me everything was ok and id get my car next week.

To be fair he has done a lot of running around for me and a fair few favours. Cheap labour ECT.

Luke isn't a bad guy.

crazycage

out of interest how much do you charge to destroy a inlet ?

It's Czech Mate

So a different side to the story then from Luke, which concurs with my suspicions!

Beware of not screening customers like the big boys!

JokerDisco

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Jerry Jerry Jerry..............

gaz s1

that inlet is truely shocking and would love to hear an explanation???????