"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
07/15/2018 at 12:06 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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To go to this length.
Enhance....
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 12:16 |
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Read the story on his site and left a comment....pretty crazy the shop will not reimburse him or take responsibility for the damages!
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ttyymmnn
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
07/15/2018 at 12:20 |
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As much as I like to save money, I’m not sure I would have gone to Payless Auto Repair.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 12:24 |
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There's someone local to me who had a bad outcome of an operation and he has a sign like this. The most interesting part is that he has a Quadrasteer truck.
$kaycog
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 12:29 |
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It should be called Paymore Auto Repair.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 12:34 |
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There’s a big sign in Winchendon MA on the way from my house to college that says “TONY THE DRUNK IS A THIEF!!!” in big letters. I kinda want to know what the story behind that one is.
Urambo Tauro
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 12:35 |
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I’d love to hear the shop’s rebuttal on this.
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ttyymmnn
> Urambo Tauro
07/15/2018 at 12:35 |
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Did you click the link?
shop-teacher
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 12:35 |
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Back when I was in college, there was a Ford Ranger I used to see around town with a banner on the tailgate that said, “Do not buy from Hill Ford”, and on the extended cab side windows he had stikered “No to Hill Ford”
Never met the guy, but damn he must've been pissed! I saw it for all four years I was down there.
Your boy, BJR
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 12:39 |
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This is the angriest I’ve ever seen someone get over a G remlin.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 12:43 |
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That poor Gremlin :(((((
Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 12:48 |
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That sucks. Still a bit unclear on how making brakes work on a Gremlin is a multi month job. I’ve done a lot of brake work, and on an older car like that there’s not much that’s simpler than the brake system.
Nom De Plume
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
07/15/2018 at 12:50 |
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Out of all of this I feel worst for the poor guy who has to work for a shop owner like that. Good luck collecting on a replacement toolbox the boss drove that vehicle into. :P
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Urambo Tauro
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 13:01 |
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Yeah. I haven’t read through the comments, but from what I’ve gathered so far, the shop was allegedly having trouble locating a functional/correct brake booster. Here’s all I found of their side of the story (quotes edited for clarity):
...156 total days of excuses as to why they did not have the brakes fixed yet...
...looking for a different booster for the master cylinder” .... the last 4- 5 didn’t work...
...they “weren’t responsible”.... it was the car’s fault... because it had no brakes...
...he had to take my car to a mechanic to get consolation on how to fix my brakes...
I don’t know how hard it is to get brake boosters for these cars, but none of that excuses the lack of communication, or the damage. The guy’s got a good case against them.
And it’s good that he found a more reputable shop to work on it, but the next quote makes me wonder if they, too, had trouble finding a booster, and had to overhaul the entire system instead :
Bill has done a complete disc brake swap on all 4 wheels...
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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ttyymmnn
> Urambo Tauro
07/15/2018 at 13:04 |
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Unless you want your car bone stock, why not upgrade to discs in the first place?
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Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> $kaycog
07/15/2018 at 13:27 |
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For those not in the know: The joke is that they ended paying more in the long run! As in, they did not pay LESS at all! For you see, the shop was called PayLESS Auto Repair, thus --
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$kaycog
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:31 |
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Oh, I get it now!
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Urambo Tauro
> ttyymmnn
07/15/2018 at 13:33 |
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Yeah, the Payless pics show a V8 badge on the car, so he had already abandoned the notion of keeping the car stock long before that point. I’m surprised he didn’t jump at the chance to upgrade when the brakes first failed. The Payless receipt shows wheel cylinders, so I doubt they were trying to tune brake pressures or anything. Should have been just stock replacement parts.
A quick peek at RockAuto list s all brake booster options for that application as “out of stock”. So for all I know, Cen-Tex might have trouble trying to find one too, and talked him into a full-system upgrade as an alternative.
terry
> Urambo Tauro
07/15/2018 at 13:44 |
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I’m the owner of this car... at 4 months in,
I told them I didn’t care how they fixed the brakes, as long as they fixed them... and I did suggest they do a brake conversion. They didn’t know how. Since then.... the car has gotten a disc brake conversion from a different shop.... 4.5
years
later,
I have yet to get any compensat
ion
from the P
ayless shop for the 700.00+
brake job they didn’t do, nor the 3559.00 damage they did to the car by running it into their garage wall. It’s been 4+ years since this happened... you can see the current status of the 1970 Gremlin here:
http://www.paylessautorepairsucks.com/progress-of-the-gremlin-s-restore.html
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Urambo Tauro
> terry
07/15/2018 at 14:02 |
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That’s friggin’ outrageous. I had a feeling that no matter how hard I tried to play devil’s advocate, it wouldn’t be enough...
What I find most surprising about the damage is how a brake issue allegedly allowed the corner of the car to hit the edge of the garage door frame. I mean, was he even aiming to pull into the garage at all?!? Pretty sure that’s more of a steering issue than brakes, and operator error more than anything else. Your local news should be all over this guy.
All that said, I LOVE your build! The mods, the color, it’s amazing. You must be proud.
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terry
> $kaycog
07/15/2018 at 14:22 |
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someone emailed me that this posted here. Wasn’t a joke...
I’m an old single guy/ no family around
and don’t like to put my friends out by bumming rides from them.
I only
went to this shop because it was 2 blocks down the road from my house
.... and I could walk back home. I
ronic that it did
indeed cost me over 5.5
grand and 6 months
in the end for a brake job that did nothing to fix the brakes, from a place called Payless... but wasn’t a joke. I then had to have the car towed
a different repair shop to actually get the brakes working (the disc br
ake conversion I had told
Payless they should do at the 4.5 month of no progress
mark
, but they
were to inept to attempt).
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terry
> Urambo Tauro
07/15/2018 at 14:24 |
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The brake conversion by CenTex
was completed over
3.5
years ago... in less than 3 days... and the 12 inch slotted discs on all corners work great.
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terry
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
07/15/2018 at 14:34 |
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T
hey kept unsuccessfully
trying stuff. A
t 1+ months, they called and told me it was finally done. I went to pick it up... and I had to pay them first before they would let me take the car. I paid them 735
.85. drove the car a block... tried to stop at a red light and the car went right through the light. I creeped 2 blocks
home, because the shop had closed for the weekend. Took the car back to them, they would not refund my money, but claimed they could fix the brakes right if I left it with them again. I wa
s on the hook for 735.00 by that time and thus left it with them so they could fix it right. They never did... instead, 4 months later
the owner ran the car into his garage wall (because it had no brakes though he had charged me 735.00 for a finished brake job 4 months earlier). T
hen blamed the accident on the “the damned car” , and threa
ten to so me over the damage he did to his shop while he was driving my damned car. Leaving out a
lot of bad stuff here... the rest is on the site.
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$kaycog
> terry
07/15/2018 at 14:39 |
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That’s pathetic! I can’t believe they’re still in business.
Cash Rewards
> terry
07/15/2018 at 16:28 |
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Are you really the guy? Are you suing?
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Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
> terry
07/15/2018 at 20:24 |
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I’ m not doubting that they had the car and did stuff to it. My point is, brakes are simple. Especially on an o l der vehicle like this where you’re not dealing with computers, ABS, etc etc etc. Basically, I’m saying that there is no way they were working on the car for any extended period of time figuring out how to get a pedal to push a master cylinder, which then pushes brake fluid to a proportioning valve, then out 4 lines to pistons that push pads onto a disk (or drums). It’s not difficult. They sat on it and didn’t do a damn thing, then one day spent a few hours slapping parts on when they realized you were getting sick of waiting and didn’t do it right.
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terry
> Cash Rewards
07/16/2018 at 16:26 |
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yes, I’m really the guy. As I state in the website, Texas laws protect the guilty in small claims... I sue, no doubt I could win a judgement, but collecting a judgment in Texas is nearly impossible. The exemptions that can not be collected against make suing a fruitless path against scum like the owner of this shop. (exemptions include 30 grand in the bank for an individual, 60 for a couple, 2 acres of land in the city, 200 rural, homestead, 1 vehicle per family member, no retirement funds, nothing (like tools)that is used in a business, etc... all exempt from me being able to collect a judgement against). If I sue, I have to pay a 65.00 filing fee to sue... then a 40.00 judgment fee in every county that who judgement is against decides to live in... a judgement I’d never be able to collect on unless the guy happens to win the lotto. I decided to use the money I’d spend on suing... to warn the rest of the world about this scum. At over 200,000 hits to my website in the past 3 years... from a town of 60,000 think I’m on my way. And I have the rest of my life to haunt this crook.