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Re: Had to drop off my baby...
From: RicSeyler <ricseyler(at)SPAMgulf.net>
Subject: Re: Had to drop off my baby...
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Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 16:09:57 -0500
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I just got a call from the owner, and at first he completely denied that
the car was ever off the lot...
(He was out of town the day I picked up the car)
Then when I confronted him with the facts that the trip odometer had 2.7
miles on it and the radio
was tuned to a station (after the battery was disconnected) without
realizing what he was saying
he immediately came back with "We test drive all cars"..............
I think he`s just covering for the smartass mechanic... Plus I can see
him not coming outright
and admitting anything in a legal stance, but not a moral stance. So no
I never got an explanation
from him. But what happened while the boss was away the mechanic went
joy riding, guess he couldn`t
resist trying the RipperShifter and seeing how the other parts on the
engine and on the vehicle , ran.
He ran the crap out of it and wrecked it. Maybe he spun out doing a
burnout and hit something along the road....
arrrrgh..
Where it stands now, I am waiting for my adjuster then I will call him
with what my adjuster says....
He offered to toss my paid bill of $305.00. My deductible is $250.00 but
I said no, not at this point
till I talk to my adjuster. I also told him I contacted my credit card
company to dispute the charges.
He said you don`t want to pay us for the job? And I said I absolutely do
not want to skip out on
legit charges you worked for but I ain`t paying for a $35.00 horn
contact your mechanic broke...
(to me it`s kinda bad Karma to try and not pay them for any of their
work, even with the ridiculous
crap of wrecking it and leaving grease and dirt and parts laying inside
everywhere) Am I a sap? LOL
Bones wrote:
> Ric, did you ever determine exactly what happened to your car after
>you dropped it off at Tau Automotive?
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Ric Seyler
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From: RicSeyler <ricseyler(at)SPAMgulf.net>
Subject: Re: Had to drop off my baby...
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Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:36:02 -0500
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It just flexed in the bumper cover and cracked the paint and the license
plate delete insert
will have to be replaced (cracked), along with all 3 sections of the
spoiler. There is a chip in the hood
and a chip in the windshield where apparently a rock skipped off the
hood and hit the windshield.
Heck looking in the best light there were a few rock chips in the bumper
cover from over the years
so I guess that is something to look at, and the windshield had the 11
years of fine sandblasting
from just being driven and a very faint wiper mark. I might have the
body shop do the rear lower
quarter panels while they have the car taped off and the gun out. There
are a few chips on the
lower quarters from over the years and faint staining from running 315`s
on the back.
But I`ll tell ya living in Florida with the intense sun the white color
was the way to go. If it
would of been Red like I was looking for when purchased, it would be
Pink right now, no
matter how well it was kept waxed. :-) The white held up remarkably well.
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Ric Seyler
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From: Bones < >
Subject: Re: Had to drop off my baby...
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 20:04:35 -0400
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Ric,
Sounds like it might work out. Be cordial next time you speak to him.
He might pick up your 250 deductible and tear up your bill AND
apologize if you go away, that is, go away happy. Then you could
just chaulk it up to a bad experience.
You know, you could get into a big deal where your lawyer can depose
his mechanics and staff, depose him, find out who was driving or lying
about who was driving, all of that testimony would just make a jury
mad as hell. When I was working for a car dealer many years ago we
were told from day one, never, ever, let a customer take us to court
because there was NO WAY we could win. You could discuss this with an
attorney for free. You should do that. Who knows, a sharp attorney
may demand 2 or 3 grand in punitive damages for beach of duty or
something or other.
The Bone
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