How exactly is he supposed to prove it online.

I have had negative experiences with some shops and tuners (1 of which is popular on this site).

I've chosen to not say anything because I get mad really quick and I don't want to have someone tell me I'm lying or for whatever blind loyality they have to tuner/shop that my experience was lesser then.

I've been burned for over 10k and I'm not with all the talking.

So I choose to bite my tongue. Some of the forum members have reached out to me on PM and I told them some specifics. Maybe I did the community a disservice by not yanking someones skirt up publicly but I know how I get it and I really don't want the e-drama.

It is amazing to me how a shop can appear to be top notch online but it almost always seems like there is some egregious story that no one really knows about unless they are local.

There are only a few shops that haven't anything really negative said about them from a work quality/reliability standpoint that I'm aware of (There maybe stories floating around about them but they either took care of the customer or they aren't a part of this forum so its only locals that know the real deal).

STM
Spec-Ops (Had a flare up a few years ago but they cleared it up haven't heard anything since)
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Yeah thats all I got.


It sucks. All I can say is as the customer educate yourself as much as possible, make sure you know what you are paying for, if something doesn't make sense....ask questions, don't be a dbag, pay your bill (even if its half up front and half on project completion if its a big bill), be realistic about your goals., be realistic about what you expect to pay to achieve your goals and most importantly.......if something happens and you are not happy contact that shop/tuner and if the situation is reasonable give them a chance to make it right.

/Moral of the story.....find a good shop with a reputation thats mostly positive, listen to the negative and decide if thats a risk you want to take and for the love of all thats holy make sure they are intimately familiar with the platform. Not "they've done oil changes on the car" familiar........like they built their business of the Evo platform familiar. Like this is their bread and butter business.

I learned the hard (and expensive) way.

 

Smutfzilla is right,don't be Atlanta house wives.

 

The input is greatly appreciated guys. I still have some research and talking to do with the shops. Does anybody have any experience with Buschur? I could possibly trailer my car out there to Ohio. Any input would be great.

 

You don't have to trailer your car out to Ohio. There are plenty of shops in the Chicagoland area that can help you out. You just named three of them and there's even more then that here.

 

One thing to remember is that there is no shop that is 100% perfect, none. A shop that will stand by their work, and how they respond to any issues is important.

 

There is also a local tuner by the name of Kunal, I know he used to be heavily involved in tuning Evos in the Chicago area, don't know if he still does, he only street tunes though I believe.

Just throwing it out there if you're looking at other options as well.

 

THIS X10000000000

Mistakes happen, its how its handled that separates a ok to good shop from a great shop.

 

Thank you everyone for your support, we appreciate it


I said every tune is done properly and we can prove it. I never used the word "flawlessly".

You are talking about someone else's car, and going off of hearsay again. The radiator and front O2 sensor went bad 10K miles after I tuned it and last touched the car! They were both original and had 90K+ miles on them. The radiator and front O2 sensor going bad 10K miles and months later, has nothing to do with us.

The new owner did come to us to get the car checked out. We had not seen the car for over 6 months so we did a full vehicle inspection, compression and leak down test. He left paying just over $200, not " $300". So that's the problem with hearsay, the story is not right. I remember this car and we did give him a very clear answer. I also looked back at our records and here they are:

Cly #1 = 25% leak down, intake valve / valves
Cly #2 = 38% leak down, exhaust valve / valves
Cly #3 = 5% leak down
Cly #4 = 8% leak down

The valves slightly leaking would create a miss at low engine speeds like at idle, and make the car seem like its caming. This is exactly what I told the customer. Like I said earlier, your info is based on hearsay.

If this were true, I would have liked you to bring your concerns to our attention. We would have done everything in our power to make things right and send you home happy. We always do, and our customers will attest to that. Please PM me your name so I can look at the invoice in question as I would like to clear things up with you.

Your story doesn't add up, or ring a bell in any way. I looked through our QuickBooks program and searched every motor we have done here at Boostin for the past 4 years, and every customer that has spent over $5K. I also looked though all our PM's on EvoM.

This is what I found:
-We have never charged anyone for storage that has had their motor done here!
-We have never charged anyone to hoist their motor out of the back of their truck!
-We have never had any communication with you on EvoM either, or at least the skyline1215 name!

I guess its possible I'm overlooking it somehow, so please validate your story because things just don't add up. Send us a PM, and I will be happy to help you out.

Wow, this should be called the "official bash Boostin thread", huh.....LOL.

Don't you think the guy selling you the car is going to tell you it's fine? Come on......of course he is!! He wants to sell you the car!

I have never, and will never tell someone that a check engine light is OK. Come on, do you think we have built our business tuning and modifying Evo's, telling people check engine lights are OK? No. Your story is based off info given to you from the guy that wants to sell you his car. Also called hearsay since you have no experience with us.

We are done commenting on this thread. You guys can talk about the hearsay without us.

Devin

 

Boostin or Strictly. Ive gone through Strictly numerous times and have never had a problem related to service or support. On the other hand i myself have not used Boostin but 3 of my friends have had their evos tuned by him and so far 2 out of the 3 have blown their motors. But the third has had zero problems and is still running strong. Kind of funny we both have blue evos. One tuned by strictly and one tuned by boostin and both of our cars are running great! Go with whoever will give u the better deal IMO lol

 

This thread is funny. If it were me, I'd go with BP, your build is pretty basic so it'd be very hard to screw up to the point where you hate the car.

 

SyZyGy1394 - Since my name has been brought up in this post, I would like to clear some things. First off, you bring up my old RS and you say it's your buddy who bought the car. That car is now on the east coast to a new owner who I have been in touch with and is having a blast with the car. I found it funny that were talking about a car that your buddy sold a month or so after he bought it from me so what's the point? I'm sure your buddy moved on from this car. I never hid anything on that car, sold it as is, test drives to the buyer, questions, etc. I was asking $20k for the car and even dropped the price to $16k for the buyer. There is no reason for me to hide anything on that car. It needed a front 02 sensor and a new radiator repair? That's not too bad considering the car is 2006 with almost 95k miles on it. I didn't know about the leak down until they performed the test after he bought the car. It's not like I knew, and tried to hide it from him. The car ran fine, had a little idling issues, but never died out on me. Its not a new car man.


Since this is a thread about where to go for a tune that turned into reviews and bashing, I've had experiences with both Boostin Performance and Strictly Modified. I've had bad experiences with Strictly Modified. I was a customer of Strictly Modified for some years, I decided to make the switch and Join up and go with Boostin Performance when Boostin opened. Since joining Boostin Performance I have achieved the goals I set out for the car and we've had tremendous success since day one. That should say something.


There is a lot of hearsayers going on in this thread and bashing from people who don't have any experience or has even been a customer. If there are problems or concerns, A grown up way and a professional way is to handle it direct with the shop or whomever it may be.

 

I wish that were true. A decade+ of being on this forum tells me otherwise.


People meet someone who has engine problems, got it tuned at some shop, it must be the tuner's fault! Except it turns out the tune was last year and the guy installed a bunch of new parts in the meantime, but that part is always left out. Doesn't stop them from bashing online. And it doesn't stop someone from coming on EvoM and following a tuner around bashing them based on hearsay of their "friend" who won't admit to overreving their stroker motor to 10,000 RPM. Must have been a bad tune, yeah that's it. Always a bad tune from some idiot tuner who doesn't know what they're doing, trust me I've looked at 2 roms and they both looked funny...

I don't know if Boostin or SM or anyone else is "good". But take the online complaints about how a shop treated someone's "friend" with a grain of salt, especially when you see 10x more people completely happy.

 

4+ years of being on this forum tells me that there are also a lot shop/tuner groupies out there. Some people will defend a certain shop/tuner no matter what anyone else says, even if they have absolutely no knowledge of someone else's negative experience.

To the OP: I would take everything you see in this thread with a grain of salt. If you have questions about someone's personal experience, send them a PM or give them a phone call. You'll probably get a lot more truthful and helpful information that way.

 

He sold it right away because he wanted to get rid of it and cut his losses short.

 

fixed it for ya.