It has been over a month now that I have not seen my car. I am starting to get very agrivated. I am posting this up as a last resort that the owner of the shop or his freinds see this and will give me some type of signal of what is going on with the shop or my car.

I recently took my car to a shop in Tampa ( I will not say the name ) Innocent till proven guilty I go under. I need you guys to put on my shoes and tell me what you would do under this circumstance (Knowing how we hold our S2K so close to our hearts and plus they are not just some beat down 94 civic w/a k20 swap)....

My s2k was having a headgasket leak. Call the shop up and tells me to bring it in ASAP. I bring it in and around 2 weeks from that point the shop closes down. So I hear from other members. The shop owner told me that he would be moving to his new shop. (Something happened with the land owner and him) I said that is okay. I have knowns this guy for a year and had full trust in him.

When I called him back a few days later he told me my car would not engage into 1st gear. No gears were grinding and it shift perfect into every other gear. ( Let me remind you that I did not bring my car in for any transmission problem) So the whole car was done from the list of things that I brought it there for...

-Headgasket replacement
-Check ticking sound
-Heat wrap down pipe
-Powdercoating Turbo Manifold

I called him a day later to see if he had worked the problem with the tranny. He told me he would have to look into it. And that if he had to order a certain part that it would take a few days since it was the weekend already. Perfectly understandable.

HERE is my problem..........................

He moved my car else were (I dont know where it is)
I have called him for the past week and mabey a few days at his main phone (which was his cell phone) I have called him a count of mabey 150 times with no answer.
Texted him
Emailed 2 of his address
Talked to two of his good freinds that used to work at the shop with him often. (no success in receiving a phone call)

There has been no attempt at letting me know the location, condition, or a breif update on the car for a week and half now.

If he had a death in his family or is having personal issues. I completely understand, but as a customer do I not have the right to have some type of communication?

Now I am asking this of you guys here. I need your opinion on what you would do!!????

 

seems like this happens a lot here in Florida. Do u know where the new location is? I wonder if there is a way to find a new business location, it should be registered with city right? If your property is there I am sure they would help u find this place... Good luck!

 

I dont know anything besides his first and last name and there is no new shop registered so seriously I dont know what to do at this point. I dont want it to get more serious, but even if he had lost connection to everything. Its called a public library... you can at least send me an email; hell you send a text from a email account now a days.

 

send some PMs to some of the guys that have been on here a while to see if they are able to find him , this would keep it from being public .

 

I have with no luck in getting a simple phone call.

I just want my phone call.

 

Call the police and report the car stolen.

 

Trust me.. I went thru the same thing with that same guy.. its a stall thing he does. I found out the hard way that he does not tell you the full truth of whats really going on.. I had to find out the hard way that many things he told me are not true. I was there last weekend and did not see your car there. He told me that he is selling everything and closeing up shop. He even told me that the lift he owns he is giving it to the landlord as back payment.

 

I am seriously trying to not go this route. He is a good guy. At least he has been with me. I just wanted to get this out so at least mabey I would get a phone call or email. I mean common did he drop my car off a cliff?

 

 

wow ... not cool.

Good luck to both of you in resolving this.


I agree ... report the car stolen. Especially if the 'new' location of the shop was never given to you.