Rhys......stop giving your car to someone else to work on[;^)]


(When you feel down just think that others have had some sheety deals too, like lunching a farking good YB engine for no apparen't reason!)

I think we both pissed off the same God my friend. My car is due to go back to the same sparky that did 2 hours work in 8 weeks on the car. This is the same bloke who left my car get covered in dust and dead bugs for 8 weeks straight whilst he did F...all. Why am I letting it go back you ask...??? Cause he has a good rep (we shall see in time) and I'm over seeing my car in the near future. So I recommend talking 2 deep breaths and let nature take it course. You will loose more sleep than those bone heads. As a South Aussie by birth, I take a keen interest in what happens on your side of the border. And with all the SA boys on this site, I'm sure they have lost alot of business.
Also trust me. Within the first 1/2 hour of having your car back and enjoying it, it'll all seem like a distant memory.


PS: I think I'm getting too old and mellow... go kick their arse!!!

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Originally posted by maxrs
[br]I think ive said it before:You can't pay people to care...

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So very true.......

shaun emailed me, i've fowarded the email to you

ok people this is the delema, andrew may be able to add some input aswell

Shean rang me today and he explained how we had had some major progress in that the car had been started and all the sensors and fuel pump where up and running and getting readings etc......

all was well to aparen'tly a program that he used stuffed it all up? froxe his comp and wont let him read the ecu again?? andrew can maybe elaborate....

my drama is this

he says he has had enough and that he is loosing to much money/time on my car, he has given me a altimatum

if he cannot fix this issue soon i.e before Sunday he wants me to pay him $850 for the work already put in and take my car incomplete!!

the original price was gonna be $800 and that was f@#king complete!!!running all good!

i need some options, andrew is trying to fix the ecu side of things but i need some help on the legal side of things....

i am not going to pay the whole sum i may pay some but i want to take this further if they want to play like that

if he rings me and wants it gon i will express this and if he says so then i will speak to a lawer....

all i want is my f@#king car back, i was just going to lay low and let em finish it in there own time now, but now he is atacking me it shouldt me my problem if he is having trouble with something i am paying him to solve it....

what do people think? this is a real brief over view of it as the whole story is a 7 week saga i cannot write out

chee(no)RS
Rhys

P.S andrew, Shean said he will contact you, either later tonight or morn tomoz.....hopefully! set him straight

he was fully warned about the MS before so if he was unsure of it he should not have taken it on....

he did, stating he has a basic understanding of it as his brother has used a few.....

i trusted in him as he said the above and MS isnt that hard to come to terms with once you get started.

and with point 1 is more his point of view, but could have been everted if he actauly took me serious at the start and did what i said and research the program not leave it till now

cheers
Rhys

Sorry to say mate, but a legal fight you will probably loose. He will blame the MS manufacturer or anything else except him. My opinion is to offer him what you consider is justifiable for the work he has done, but you will most likely find he will stick with his $850.
So pay it and hope he has not f***ed the ECU so either yourself or someone else can work on the car.
This will not be what you want to hear, but I think it will be the cheapest option in the end.
Quotes are only really legally fightable if he supplied and fitted all the parts. When you start sourcing outside parts for a 3rd party to fit, it can get really sticky.

Rhys,

Assuming it comes to that (and it hasn't yet, stay positive!) You still have rights, and as far as i know they are breaching them big time (from the small amount of law i've done!).

Arrange a meeting with someone from the consumer protection place www.ocba.sa.gov.au and they will tell you your rights and what to do. DO NOT pay anything until you have spoken to them.

It will come down to whether you or them are in the right. My belief is you will be in the right, you may owe them something but not $850.

As an aside AFAIK they can't legally hold your car against your will.


andrew