Need some good advice..pls help
Mar 19, 2011, 11:19 PM
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Need some good advice..pls help
hey guys i need some advice on a situation im in. To keep a long story short, I had a ACT HDSS clutch installed in TX by a good respectable shop ( i'm keeping the name of the shop discreet right now). Well I moved back to ca and a few months later i ran my car and something went POP! so I took it to a well known, shop around here to get a build done to it. A few months past and the car was just almost complete and i get a call from the shop saying they were wondering what clutch I had. I told them it was an ACT and then replied there was no ACT clutch in my transmission. Only a black oem look a like!
So i call the shop in texas and told him what i just found out and he stated he put in the right clutch i paid for and was willing to send me the reciepts for when he purchased the clutch for my car.
I dont know what to do? My build is on hold until i figure this out. I dont want to pay for another clutch that i had already paid for. I basically want to know who is lying to me. because of this situation im being paranoid about the work being done at the other shop now. what if its the shop in ca is lying to me? then how do i know if the parts that he installed in my motor are what he said. Does anyone have any good advice, tips for me to do?I NEED HELP!
So i call the shop in texas and told him what i just found out and he stated he put in the right clutch i paid for and was willing to send me the reciepts for when he purchased the clutch for my car.I dont know what to do? My build is on hold until i figure this out. I dont want to pay for another clutch that i had already paid for. I basically want to know who is lying to me. because of this situation im being paranoid about the work being done at the other shop now. what if its the shop in ca is lying to me? then how do i know if the parts that he installed in my motor are what he said. Does anyone have any good advice, tips for me to do?I NEED HELP!
Mar 20, 2011, 12:15 AM
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Are you located in nor cal? If so, if you took it to either fftec, speed element, or even gst... I would believe they told ya the truth. Anyway you are in a sticky situation since you can't prove who is lying.
Mar 20, 2011, 07:02 AM
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I guess a good question to ask your self is how stock did the clutch fell to u after u got the car back from the.shop in tx. Would think that clutch is a tad bit stiffer than stock
Mar 20, 2011, 06:20 PM
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Dude, this is one of my worst fears when having something done to my car. Goodluck getting it sorted out. Ive had a few things similiar to this and all I can say is that they have been expesive mistakes. I learned though, and regardless of who is doing the work now, I make sure that things are checked over prior to me leaving.
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Mar 20, 2011, 06:39 PM
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thanks bro. Im stressing over this. My plan is probably just to see reciepts from the the shop in ca to prove that he bought the parts i requested. thats the only thing i can think of besides taking it back apart but thats gonna cost more money.
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here is my question to you...so you got your clutch replaced at this shop in TX and now a shop in cali is saying that its stock didnt the shop from TX give you your oem clutch back? If they didnt why?
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here something i thought was weird though. I went to the shop yesterday and asked if i could see my old stock oem internals and the shop owner said he threw them away. His answer to that was he always throws away the oem parts after a build. Isnt that odd?? wouldnt you as a owner of a shop ask the customer if he wanted his old parts before he threw them away?? his reply was why would you wanna keep your pistons when they been hammered out? I never removed pistons before but I would think if you had to hammer them out wouldnt you use a rubber mallet instead of a metal one?
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here something i thought was weird though. I went to the shop yesterday and asked if i could see my old stock oem internals and the shop owner said he threw them away. His answer to that was he always throws away the oem parts after a build. Isnt that odd?? wouldnt you as a owner of a shop ask the customer if he wanted his old parts before he threw them away?? his reply was why would you wanna keep your pistons when they been hammered out? I never removed pistons before but I would think if you had to hammer them out wouldnt you use a rubber mallet instead of a metal one?
