Oh and BTW stop using the word blasphemy to describe what is being done to your name. It's not like you're a god or anything. I think Slander is the word you're looking for.








Meth (doing some edumacating of his own)

 

dont bring the shop into this one, they didn't screw up. they were doing what the customer wanted.

 

I doubt Mark asked them to hang his exhaust with chicken wire and the shop is a great place to start, they have the most to lose. That shop sounds like the kind of place that would charge an old lady $300 bucks for an exhaust hanger and the worst part is they would only give her some chicken wire.

 

or it could be the mechanics fault. and you dont know that they would charge alot, it could be an honest shop doing cheap work meaning you get this chicken wire. or they could be the next jiffy lube. just don't talk trash about the shop if you do not know about this shop. i dont work for this shop, obviously

 

They put his exhaust on with chicken wire, if they have a bad mechanic then that needs to be taken care of. The fact that you are so worried about this shop, makes me suspicious, I wonder if the owner knows whats going on and that his people are involved in scams. I think we need to get that shops name and direct the owner/ management to this thread. I wouldn't do that to car if someone asked me, instead I would send them away with all their money, $50 is not worth potential customers knowing thats the kind of work they put out.

 

hahahaha i actually red all 13 pages!!!! =D this would be a GREAT BOOK SELLER!!!!!!! and actually would attract young readers.... =D ....


... so whats the progress of the paypal claim or the CC??

 

LMFAO nice edit, you seem like a shady person or maybe you are just scared

 

wtf?
lol forget i was ever defending this shop. lol.
scared of what and how am i being shady now? i was merely looking out for a shop, that could be an honest shop, or a theif. i have no clue, if they are a thief then i fail. i dont even know kayfunk, i've read alot of post from him on importatlanta.com

 

Good question.

I wonder the same thing. I AM lowered, and the first thing to drag over a speed bump is the heat shield on the stock cats. (I know I looked) The exhaust is significantly higher off the ground. It was that way with the stock exhaust as well as the HKS I have now. I'm not sure what I'd have to do to actually scrape the exhaust (jump it?) If I did however, the first thing I would do is look under it to see what happened.

 

^ That's what I'm saying. If I scratched up a $1400 exhaust, the first thing I would do is pull over, get under my car and look.

 

1.I never road around with that flange like that on my car. When forged put my test pipes on they showed me the gasket that needed to be replaced, that was causing the leak. I could get the person who showed me to post here for further proof, he was at forged when i came to pick up my HKS, he drives a blue EVO 9. There was no broken flange when it was put on his car. So somewhere between now and mark taking off the exhaust there was a broken flange.

2.My car is stock height, but the Z is still low, and the JIC canaster, the very bottom of it, is definitely lower than stock. Im sure you dont care, but you could ask anyone that knows me, i bottomed out almost evertime i went over a speedbump. If you look at the picture mark took only the VERY BOTTOM of the canister is scraped, not the part that's actually viewable from the rear of the vehicle. Hell, even take alook at the picture i posted when i put it up for sale.


And yes, my rep is ruined, which is why i refuse to just drop everything and help this guy out. I did enough for him already. I told him i would cover install fee, save him on shipping and even take off his old exhaust and install it on the buyer for his car. All at no cost to him. Once again, his negligence had him paying another $50, instead of going "hey kris said he would take care of that", and have the owner of the shop call me and confirm!; he just paid it. This further proves that he's a very negligent person. This whole thing is ridiculous, and i don't understand how anyone could be on his side, especially after i've offered to fix the exhaust, which at this point is the right thing to do. I will state again and i will continually state, if he had come to ME with the problem, before bringing it on HERE, i would have been more than happy to refund him. It just erks me, that he went out of his way to tarnish my name, even after i told him "i get off work at 11, you'll have to wait, but ill call you when i get out." Yet, he STILL came on here and posted everything. Ruining any chances of me being sympathetic to this idiot and helping him out 100%, after i already helped him enough, and im offereing to fix the exhaust still! Everyone i know says i should say; **** this *******, i can't believe you're offering to give him anything.

 

Precisely, the shop was doing ME a favor, if they had charged labor, they would have owed the mechanic about $200 a piece.

 

being a mounting bracket was missing, they put the MECHANIC wire there for re-assurance. It wasn't needed, but the mechanic did it for safety precautions.

The owner of the shop will be posting as soon as his username is approved. he's been waiting for approval since 2 days ago.

 

I'm just playing devil's advocate here. I don't care either way, don't know either party and actually feel a refund is in order. Kayfunk argues that everyone he know's says he's right.... well of course they would, more than likely they are your friends. However, in a court of public opinion, w/ majority of people who don't know either party, can see that the best solution is a refund and return of exhaust.

K, so you're claiming that damage was caused by the buyer? As of now the forum I would say can't argue that fact for either party, because the buyer did not see what condition the exhaust was in prior to driving x amount of miles back home. The buyer can't honestly expect the forum to believe that there isn't a POSSIBLITY that the damage was caused at some point after installation. I know he'll argue that he was told of an exhaust leak, and so the sound did not alarm him and that he didn't damage it while driving home. But just as I don't believe Kayfunk completely, I can't believe Kram completely either. So unless there is video of him driving home and taking off exhaust to prove otherwise. There is that POSSIBILITY.

You're right I don't care, I was just curious how you were bottoming out, when I'm lowered w/ an aftermarket exhaust and never scrape that part of the exhaust. However, who knows, maybe the ATL speedbumps are bigger.

 

Bro, I think the shop had as much fault as "***Funk." How can a shop NOT let you know about using "chicken wires", busted mounting points on the muffler AND a big *** crack in the exhaust flange. A "GOOD" shop should had responded by saying, "that muffler has some issues that needs to be resolve before installation." COME ON, its a 350Z and how can the shop NOT notice that the muffler is a POS.

Just my 2cents.

 

+1 Chicken wire should only be used for emergency repairs and not for an install. Well its game time people, see you all later.

 

I wonder if a mod could verify this.

 

It don't mean crap because the shop owner could be his buddy buddy. Of course, we have tendencies to back up people we know.

 

shops name is A-Z auto truck repair in atlanta.

 

200 for what? Exhaust install? lol. or is it the chicken wire?