In my opinion Shoddy work/ Customer service just cost me about 1700 bux.
Story:
Got clutch job done at ________. Clutch is put into car back in October. Take the car to the track about 8x. After having severe lock out issues at high rpm(anything past 6500) I take car back to shop I had install done at. Shop adjust clutch. I then go to the track the next week. I make 1 pass and the car breaks. After about 5 mins of diagnosis It is clear that it's some sort of trans/ clutch issue with the car. I go back to the shop with the car I leave it there for 2 days and on the second day I am told some **** that I already knew. That its something in the trans and that they would have to charge me a full clutch job install price to take the trans off to see what it is. Wtf are you serious? This is literally a week after they make their "adjustment to my clutch pedal".
I then Say F that and take it to a different shop because if I'm gonna get charged like a brand new customer I'll go else where. Well After the new shop opens it up, the issue with the car is the douches that did the clutch job didn't tighten the flywheel down enough and it came loose. So the result I needed a new flywheel and my crank had to be cleaned up because pieces of the flywheel had literally welded its self to the crank due to the vibration. Now when asked what would cause this I was told that they never see flywheels loosen on stock HP cars. The only time he had this issue was with their 700hp drag car that revs to 9k. So yea I got screwed

So the moral of the story is don't take your car to a shop that won't even look at their own work when it F-ing breaks. Good thing I spent only a G at this shop I would have been taking legal action if I would have spent more.

 

What shop was it? PM me if you dont want to make it public.

 

what shop was this?

 

Id still take them to court, a grand is a grand, they ****ed up plain and simple why should you lose out if you know its their problem and they're to ignorant to at least help fix their F up

 

scary to have things done. If I only had the tools and right knowledge to do it myself lol. Good to know your car is in 1 piece and you didn't need to spend another arm and leg to get things going

 

You're in NY. Why wouldn't you take the car to an shop that specializes in Evolutions? There are several good options.

 

hell yea a grand is a grand you shoulda fought for a lil bit of money back if u didnt wanna keep it there. they should guarantee their work

 

a grand can also turn into 15 grand. pain and suffering, legal fees, etc lol

 

PM me the shops name too please.

I would have taken pictures and/or video of everything once it cam apart from shop number 2 and went back to shop one and show them. Demanding what you had to pay out to shop 2.

 

One has to prove and outline monetary damage.

 

Dude you have a modded 03 that you say was at the track 8 times, Thats just pay to play expense right there. Next time you may get 20 track days but not this time.

 

Pay to play yes but flywheel bolts backing out hell no

 

Absolutely true. Pay to Play is wearing out clutches, ending up with the TCase death whine after too many hard track days, going through brake pads and tires like mad doing HPDE's, etc

Improperly installed and torqued flywheel bolts should be the LAST issue you have to worry about.

 

I did take it to a Evo specialist shop. I will pm those that want to know the name of the shop. And I know the cost of track time. I don't mind that part if the clutch would have broke or a part of the tranny or the T-case I would have been pissed but I would have had no one to blame but myself. But nothing broke. My Flywheel loosened up because of shoddy install and it cost me. Btw My car is completely stock except for a intake and TBE, Stock boost and no tune. 14 flat was my fastest time at the track. So its definitely not powerful enough to break anything.

 

Please PM me, as well. Thanks.