My Build -- from scammed @ SGP to top notch service @ FORGED & Import Parts Pro
but I still drive it.
California
Thank god I read this I was gunna send my piece for a valve body upgrade to sgp. Does anyone know if forged does em? Cause if they do I'd rather pay for the piece of mind
Yes we do....call us $690 shipped parts and labor. You send us your VB, and we modify it and send it back.
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Glad Kyle and Sharif are taking care of you.
Although I did not get directly scammed by SGP, it could have easily ended up that way. Mark did my Greddy turbo on stock block install back in Nov 07 and the long story made short is I blew my motor almost a year later due to overboosting. When I talked to him (Mark) about it in October 08, he said he could get me back on the road with a built motor, tuned and installed for under $7k but that sounded to good to be true. I'd talked to Sharif and felt more confident with what he said needed to be done and then SGP stopped answering their phones so I went with FP. My car is up on the rack and I believe nearing completion.
Although I did not get directly scammed by SGP, it could have easily ended up that way. Mark did my Greddy turbo on stock block install back in Nov 07 and the long story made short is I blew my motor almost a year later due to overboosting. When I talked to him (Mark) about it in October 08, he said he could get me back on the road with a built motor, tuned and installed for under $7k but that sounded to good to be true. I'd talked to Sharif and felt more confident with what he said needed to be done and then SGP stopped answering their phones so I went with FP. My car is up on the rack and I believe nearing completion.
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Glad Kyle and Sharif are taking care of you.
Although I did not get directly scammed by SGP, it could have easily ended up that way. Mark did my Greddy turbo on stock block install back in Nov 07 and the long story made short is I blew my motor almost a year later due to overboosting. When I talked to him (Mark) about it in October 08, he said he could get me back on the road with a built motor, tuned and installed for under $7k but that sounded to good to be true. I'd talked to Sharif and felt more confident with what he said needed to be done and then SGP stopped answering their phones so I went with FP. My car is up on the rack and I believe nearing completion.
Although I did not get directly scammed by SGP, it could have easily ended up that way. Mark did my Greddy turbo on stock block install back in Nov 07 and the long story made short is I blew my motor almost a year later due to overboosting. When I talked to him (Mark) about it in October 08, he said he could get me back on the road with a built motor, tuned and installed for under $7k but that sounded to good to be true. I'd talked to Sharif and felt more confident with what he said needed to be done and then SGP stopped answering their phones so I went with FP. My car is up on the rack and I believe nearing completion.
Congrats and enjoy the new ride!
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Reading stuff like this makes my heart bleed, I understand your frustration as a customer but you have no idea what you are doing to SGP as a whole by posting stuff like this. Does anyone not realize that shops are hurting greatly and cutting costs alone wont cut it. 95% of shops operate with floating money. I bet theres been times when forged takes payment for something and that payment pays for the guy in front of his build but they are just fortunate enough to have steady business. The whole lead time is bs, shops need "down payments" and when they say that you are basically paying to finish up the order from a guy thats 2 weeks ahead of you. What Im saying is everyone needs to be patient and realize that your car wont be finished in a day; builds take time and they are very complicated especially when you throw in hard to find parts. SGP does not have the intention to rip people off, some customers dont have patience and expect everything yesterday and start throwing **** around on forums and it only makes things worse. Because I bet the op didnt even talk to mark about his frustrations, and just found some way to beat around the bush to get his car out of the shop then bash him. Everyone always talks about how they are the victims and never talk about what they did to resolve the situation instead its poor me poor me
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Reading stuff like this makes my heart bleed, I understand your frustration as a customer but you have no idea what you are doing to SGP as a whole by posting stuff like this. Does anyone not realize that shops are hurting greatly and cutting costs alone wont cut it. 95% of shops operate with floating money. I bet theres been times when forged takes payment for something and that payment pays for the guy in front of his build but they are just fortunate enough to have steady business. The whole lead time is bs, shops need "down payments" and when they say that you are basically paying to finish up the order from a guy thats 2 weeks ahead of you. What Im saying is everyone needs to be patient and realize that your car wont be finished in a day; builds take time and they are very complicated especially when you throw in hard to find parts. SGP does not have the intention to rip people off, some customers dont have patience and expect everything yesterday and start throwing **** around on forums and it only makes things worse. Because I bet the op didnt even talk to mark about his frustrations, and just found some way to beat around the bush to get his car out of the shop then bash him. Everyone always talks about how they are the victims and never talk about what they did to resolve the situation instead its poor me poor me
OMG...
R U serious?!?!?!?!???
Mark Gust has become a scammer who has ripped off numerous customers besides the OP. SGP isn't the shop it used to be. mrg1981 and I both got scammed on SGP's automatic transmission build. The independent 3rd party inspections on our transmissions proved it. Also... Getting a hold of Mark is damn near impossible, unless you're a TX local or go to SGP in person to confront him.
https://my350z.com/forum/forced-indu...a-scammer.html
^ Not sure how you missed the sticky thread about SGP. Read all of that thread please before you post again. You will realize how ridiculous and uninformed your post above was, and how it makes you look like Mark's girlfriend or something.
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Reading stuff like this makes my heart bleed, I understand your frustration as a customer but you have no idea what you are doing to SGP as a whole by posting stuff like this. Does anyone not realize that shops are hurting greatly and cutting costs alone wont cut it. 95% of shops operate with floating money. I bet theres been times when forged takes payment for something and that payment pays for the guy in front of his build but they are just fortunate enough to have steady business. The whole lead time is bs, shops need "down payments" and when they say that you are basically paying to finish up the order from a guy thats 2 weeks ahead of you. What Im saying is everyone needs to be patient and realize that your car wont be finished in a day; builds take time and they are very complicated especially when you throw in hard to find parts. SGP does not have the intention to rip people off, some customers dont have patience and expect everything yesterday and start throwing **** around on forums and it only makes things worse. Because I bet the op didnt even talk to mark about his frustrations, and just found some way to beat around the bush to get his car out of the shop then bash him. Everyone always talks about how they are the victims and never talk about what they did to resolve the situation instead its poor me poor me
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Reading stuff like this makes my heart bleed, I understand your frustration as a customer but you have no idea what you are doing to SGP as a whole by posting stuff like this. Does anyone not realize that shops are hurting greatly and cutting costs alone wont cut it. 95% of shops operate with floating money. I bet theres been times when forged takes payment for something and that payment pays for the guy in front of his build but they are just fortunate enough to have steady business. The whole lead time is bs, shops need "down payments" and when they say that you are basically paying to finish up the order from a guy thats 2 weeks ahead of you. What Im saying is everyone needs to be patient and realize that your car wont be finished in a day; builds take time and they are very complicated especially when you throw in hard to find parts. SGP does not have the intention to rip people off, some customers dont have patience and expect everything yesterday and start throwing **** around on forums and it only makes things worse. Because I bet the op didnt even talk to mark about his frustrations, and just found some way to beat around the bush to get his car out of the shop then bash him. Everyone always talks about how they are the victims and never talk about what they did to resolve the situation instead its poor me poor me
Read the Sticky thread and you tell me if YOU would take your car to SGP?
Reading stuff like this makes my heart bleed, I understand your frustration as a customer but you have no idea what you are doing to SGP as a whole by posting stuff like this. Does anyone not realize that shops are hurting greatly and cutting costs alone wont cut it. 95% of shops operate with floating money. I bet theres been times when forged takes payment for something and that payment pays for the guy in front of his build but they are just fortunate enough to have steady business. The whole lead time is bs, shops need "down payments" and when they say that you are basically paying to finish up the order from a guy thats 2 weeks ahead of you. What Im saying is everyone needs to be patient and realize that your car wont be finished in a day; builds take time and they are very complicated especially when you throw in hard to find parts. SGP does not have the intention to rip people off, some customers dont have patience and expect everything yesterday and start throwing **** around on forums and it only makes things worse. Because I bet the op didnt even talk to mark about his frustrations, and just found some way to beat around the bush to get his car out of the shop then bash him. Everyone always talks about how they are the victims and never talk about what they did to resolve the situation instead its poor me poor me
...the whole phrase of "sgp does not have the intention to rip people off blah blah blah" is utter crap. why is it that there are more then one person on this board suing him? did you used to work with him? or partners with him? he had a partner that backed out named fred. that is the reason why i ask.
Reading stuff like this makes my heart bleed, I understand your frustration as a customer but you have no idea what you are doing to SGP as a whole by posting stuff like this. Does anyone not realize that shops are hurting greatly and cutting costs alone wont cut it. 95% of shops operate with floating money. I bet theres been times when forged takes payment for something and that payment pays for the guy in front of his build but they are just fortunate enough to have steady business. The whole lead time is bs, shops need "down payments" and when they say that you are basically paying to finish up the order from a guy thats 2 weeks ahead of you. What Im saying is everyone needs to be patient and realize that your car wont be finished in a day; builds take time and they are very complicated especially when you throw in hard to find parts. SGP does not have the intention to rip people off, some customers dont have patience and expect everything yesterday and start throwing **** around on forums and it only makes things worse. Because I bet the op didnt even talk to mark about his frustrations, and just found some way to beat around the bush to get his car out of the shop then bash him. Everyone always talks about how they are the victims and never talk about what they did to resolve the situation instead its poor me poor me
Are you kidding me?
Reading stuff like this makes my heart bleed, I understand your frustration as a customer but you have no idea what you are doing to SGP as a whole by posting stuff like this. Does anyone not realize that shops are hurting greatly and cutting costs alone wont cut it. 95% of shops operate with floating money. I bet theres been times when forged takes payment for something and that payment pays for the guy in front of his build but they are just fortunate enough to have steady business. The whole lead time is bs, shops need "down payments" and when they say that you are basically paying to finish up the order from a guy thats 2 weeks ahead of you. What Im saying is everyone needs to be patient and realize that your car wont be finished in a day; builds take time and they are very complicated especially when you throw in hard to find parts. SGP does not have the intention to rip people off, some customers dont have patience and expect everything yesterday and start throwing **** around on forums and it only makes things worse. Because I bet the op didnt even talk to mark about his frustrations, and just found some way to beat around the bush to get his car out of the shop then bash him. Everyone always talks about how they are the victims and never talk about what they did to resolve the situation instead its poor me poor me
It is the ultimate insult to Forged for you to even mention their name in the same post as the theives known as SGP
!! May you experience the same level of FAIL that others on this forum have endured at the hands of Mark and SGP.... F***in toolbox!!
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Reading stuff like this makes my heart bleed, I understand your frustration as a customer but you have no idea what you are doing to SGP as a whole by posting stuff like this. Does anyone not realize that shops are hurting greatly and cutting costs alone wont cut it. 95% of shops operate with floating money. I bet theres been times when forged takes payment for something and that payment pays for the guy in front of his build but they are just fortunate enough to have steady business. The whole lead time is bs, shops need "down payments" and when they say that you are basically paying to finish up the order from a guy thats 2 weeks ahead of you. What Im saying is everyone needs to be patient and realize that your car wont be finished in a day; builds take time and they are very complicated especially when you throw in hard to find parts. SGP does not have the intention to rip people off, some customers dont have patience and expect everything yesterday and start throwing **** around on forums and it only makes things worse. Because I bet the op didnt even talk to mark about his frustrations, and just found some way to beat around the bush to get his car out of the shop then bash him. Everyone always talks about how they are the victims and never talk about what they did to resolve the situation instead its poor me poor me
