Artisan Turbo IS350 Progress Thread
Dude,
The company is sitting on a $40K vehicle. They probably are not doing beer runs down to Tijuana with your car, but over 4 months with no photos and only 1/2 done!! Just don't let your "hope" for boost turn cloud your judgment of when to pull the plug and get your car back.
The company is sitting on a $40K vehicle. They probably are not doing beer runs down to Tijuana with your car, but over 4 months with no photos and only 1/2 done!! Just don't let your "hope" for boost turn cloud your judgment of when to pull the plug and get your car back.
you know kinda unexpected? i understand stuff takes time i sent a motorcycle out to racing905 to have crash cages made,12' oclock bar,fairing stay,headlight stay etc etc for a stunt bike and if it had taken 5 months with no pics/progress i could see i promise i would a flown out there. oh yeah yes this was a new bike. this was back in 2005 on a 2005 gsxr 1000
he does seem to be patient
lol, me either. i started on last page and got interested and went to page one and started readin
Yes sir.... I took down the mileage right before i left the building when i dropped her off.
What should i do now?
10/7/09 UPDATE:
Ok so heres the news. SO many of you may know Kenny Strickler has been fired by turbochargers.com. So today i called up there to try to figure out what is gonna happen with my car now. In case anyone doesnt know, I dropped it off 4 months ago with an understading that they were going to use my car as a prototype to produce a turbo system as they did with the IS-F, also with the understanding that it was going to be 50% of what the retail cost would be.
Anyways, I called up there and at first got an operator and they asked to identify who i was and so I did. "My name is John, I have my IS350 up there being turbo'ed". So they put me on hold. Next person that picks up says, "Hey im David, the owner"...... the next words out of his mouth is, "Kenny no longer works here, he has made many promises to many people and has had many cars here being worked on for months and has blew so much smoke up peoples "butts" that its ridiculous." ............ On to the point, i asked what now with my car. Basically he gave me 2 options;
First option, he said that they can finish the turbo for me but they dont plan on producing it. The car is already 75% done and he says they can do that in 2 weeks guarenteed. Only thing is, now instead of the agreed upon price between me and Kenny of $4000, it would now cost me $8000!!. He says that the price of $4000 is impossible. I explained to him that is the price that was agreed upon, that is what i planned for, and that is what im willing to pay.
Second option, He can return the car back to stock. I can pick it up like nothing happen. Cost of that would be $1000.
BOTH ARE RIDICULOUS OPTIONS!!! I dont care if Kenny doesnt work there anymore but he was hired as the manager there and he represented them until the last customer that Kenny interacted with is taken care of. At this point I just want my car back. I dont believe that i should have to pay for anything. I did not go there asking for them to specifically build a turbo for my car. I was told that they were looking for volunteers and I was willing to volunteer and go beyond that by paying a portion and shipping my car down there myself at my cost! Im not mad and im not talking **** on turbochargers.com or its owner David and im not talking **** on Kenny. It has already cost me $500 to get my car trailered down to Houston from St. Louis, $500 a month for the past 4 months for the car that I cant drive, and now it will cost me another $500 to drive the car back. I refuse to pay another $1000 just to get it back the way it came with NO upgrades.
So the questions is, What should I do now?
Ok so heres the news. SO many of you may know Kenny Strickler has been fired by turbochargers.com. So today i called up there to try to figure out what is gonna happen with my car now. In case anyone doesnt know, I dropped it off 4 months ago with an understading that they were going to use my car as a prototype to produce a turbo system as they did with the IS-F, also with the understanding that it was going to be 50% of what the retail cost would be.
Anyways, I called up there and at first got an operator and they asked to identify who i was and so I did. "My name is John, I have my IS350 up there being turbo'ed". So they put me on hold. Next person that picks up says, "Hey im David, the owner"...... the next words out of his mouth is, "Kenny no longer works here, he has made many promises to many people and has had many cars here being worked on for months and has blew so much smoke up peoples "butts" that its ridiculous." ............ On to the point, i asked what now with my car. Basically he gave me 2 options;
First option, he said that they can finish the turbo for me but they dont plan on producing it. The car is already 75% done and he says they can do that in 2 weeks guarenteed. Only thing is, now instead of the agreed upon price between me and Kenny of $4000, it would now cost me $8000!!. He says that the price of $4000 is impossible. I explained to him that is the price that was agreed upon, that is what i planned for, and that is what im willing to pay.
Second option, He can return the car back to stock. I can pick it up like nothing happen. Cost of that would be $1000.
BOTH ARE RIDICULOUS OPTIONS!!! I dont care if Kenny doesnt work there anymore but he was hired as the manager there and he represented them until the last customer that Kenny interacted with is taken care of. At this point I just want my car back. I dont believe that i should have to pay for anything. I did not go there asking for them to specifically build a turbo for my car. I was told that they were looking for volunteers and I was willing to volunteer and go beyond that by paying a portion and shipping my car down there myself at my cost! Im not mad and im not talking **** on turbochargers.com or its owner David and im not talking **** on Kenny. It has already cost me $500 to get my car trailered down to Houston from St. Louis, $500 a month for the past 4 months for the car that I cant drive, and now it will cost me another $500 to drive the car back. I refuse to pay another $1000 just to get it back the way it came with NO upgrades.
So the questions is, What should I do now?
