Back from panel beaters and hood wrecked

[peter f]

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Hi Mike,
It sounds like it never rains but it pours up your way (literally). What a b*****d when you put your faith in supposed "tradesmen".
Solve your problems one job at a time, and hopefully you can eventually look back on this episode and put it down to experience.
The one thing I try to do for big outlays of money is to canvas the Club members for word of mouth recommendations - normally works out ok.
Keep smiling bud - you'll get through this!!

Peter f

[jasper]

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Moraystagjust one question ,, Did you pay them in full ????

[Moraystag]

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Yes Jasper I always pay my bills in full and straight away. Unfortunately I am old school and always pay straight away. To be honest it keeps coming back to bite me especially over the last 18 months.

Funnily enough I emailed them this morning and got a reply which say's that they will be in touch tomorrow, to see what they can do, intersesting as I would have thought that they would have sorted any damage before theyhanded overthe car. Anyway, to be honest and it go's against my ethics, but there's going to be a rubber ch*que, thats going to be bouncing right back to me tomorrow, so lets wait and see. Only problem is that I wrote it on Saturday and apparently there are banks that will cash buisness checks straight away and on a Saturday as well. Never mind I'm going to fight this all the way.

Oh and they broke the knob off the bonnet catch release as well, and this afternoon, I pulled the bonnet with what remains of the bonnet pull catch and they put the bonnet back on with only 2 x bolts each side, I can only assume that they lost them like they lost all the other bits that were not welded onto the car. Luckily there is a SOC member who lives Glasgow way, who kept sending me up bit's and pieces as they lost them so believe me I have told no lies. Once this is all over , as I can't say much until this is concluded,Iam going to slag this mob off to whoever will listen, what I have posted on here is only half the story.There are 2 x SOC members who know who this mob are, so I sincerely hope that they warn off other potential customers, as I certainly will, they aught tobe jailed

[V Mad]

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Moraystag wrote:

Yes Jasper I always pay my bills in full and straight away. Unfortunately I am old school and always pay straight away. To be honest it keeps coming back to bite me especially over the last 18 months.

Fair enough, but if you are unhappy, insist on them writing 'paid under protest' on the bill.

[Moraystag]

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Yes good idea, I remember someone elseadvising to to do this. Anyway I may have another chance to pay the bill bounce bounce bounce

[Ian Durrant]

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Sorry to hear about this!

I had a similar run in with a body shop in 2001. Poor welding, orange peel paint, filler used where I had asked for new metal to be let in, Then incompetent mechanics (who were only asked to bolt the engine back in but managed to do even that wrong!)

Frankly I can't afford to pay for professionals to do the job these days, but the upside is I know I'll take more care when I do it myself!

Hope you can get the hood frame sorted without too much grief!

[Moraystag]

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Ian Durrant wrote:

Frankly I can't afford to pay for professionals to do the job these days, but the upside is I know I'll take more care when I do it myself!

Ian what bloody proffessionals I am begining to believe that there are very few left out there now. A vast amount are nothing but bloody highway robbers

[Guest]

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Moraystag wrote:

Funnily enough I emailed them this morning and got a reply which say's that they will be in touch tomorrow, to see what they can do,

Personally, I would be VERY reluctant to let them anywhere near the hood, without the expertise of Chris et al they'll make it worse. Martin.

[Guest]

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Moraystag wrote:

Funnily enough I emailed them this morning and got a reply which say's that they will be in touch tomorrow, to see what they can do

I rather think you already know what they can do