vietstuh

So guys.. one of my tires had a nail in it and was starting to deflate so i put in one of my old rims and tires. and put the one with the nail in my spare wheel well. i drove over to a local tire shop (la puente tires on Valley blvd) and they jacked up my car when i wasnt looking and he did it with 5-6 full pumps with a hydraulic jack and i was like wtf. ok this guy is good for getting my lowered car up that easily.. and then he put on my wheel with a new tire mounted on and lowered my car off the jack. and then when i go and try to put my spare in the wheel well, i noticed the well is bulged up, and then i look under the well and noticed it is all dented up.. that was when i realized that he jacked my car up using the wheel well..... and then i brought it to the manager's attention. and him and all of the workers were the biggest bull****ters alive... they kept saying they never even touched my trunk when in fact one of the guys pulled my wheel+tire out of the wheel well where it was seated perfectly level.. and then 2 guys look under my car and start talking in spanish.. and tell me that my wheel well has been damaged for days.... i was just like how can you know for sure if its been a few days.. there is no sign of aging to a wheel well there will be the same amount dirt there before you put a jack under it, and after you put a jack under it... i was so mad.. i wasn't mad at the fact that they damaged my wheel well because i dont really carry a spare around anyway, but it pissed me off how they were all straight out lying and talking **** about me in spanish thinking i couldnt understand anything
anyway.. you guys see for yourselves..
sorry the picture is a bit dark.. but that's my wheel well..


so.. what can i exactly do about it?

RedPhoenix

iTrader: (10)

if they wond fix it, i would start beating it with a hammer

SUPRMSC

iTrader: (7)

Visit the place at night...

vwynn

iTrader: (4)

yea go back.

a friend of mine did it to my friends s2k.. o man.. i was laughing ..

but yea if they dont fix it. put a shoe on and pound that sucker back. hah

tavarish

iTrader: (2)

um...don't cry over spilled milk? LOL


But seriously, get a jack and do it yourself next time. This is one of the reasons I don't ever take my car to a shop.

O. L. T.

iTrader: (17)

On any normal car that would have been a gas tank.

fwynn

iTrader: (1)

go back and ask them to fix it..
if they dont fix it.. this what I would do....
fix it.. then finish some "business" thats just me...

or.. if they made you pay anything.. tell them to refund ur money..
yea

vietstuh

yeah i originally went to the shop just to get 1 tire mounted and balanced, but i'm not really mad about the wheel well itself, i'm just really mad about how they're still charging me for the mounting and balancing even though they clearly straight out lied.. i mean.. no way they could jack up the differential with full pumps.. everytime i jack up my car, i ALWAYS have to inch it up before i get enough clearance to do full pumps.. oh well.. i guess i'll just have to buy a tire mounting a machine and computer balancing machine and do it myself haha i really would love to "visit the place at night", but no point in making such a big deal out of a wheel well... well anyway, thanks for all your replies guys.

ant1k

id put on my steel toe shoes and go back and pound an equal dent into their heads . but thats just me haha dont follow my example. try take it to their corporate office and complain, unless its a standalone shop.

shlounek

iTrader: (1)

It happens to me all the time.

1. Take out tire
2. Get in the trunk
3. Start jumping inside the wheel well Jump hard, so u straight it up with one jump

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Kohinoor

iTrader: (22)

a body shop did that to my car lol.. they fixed it for free of course

DryBlaze

Just walk into their shop with a sledge hammer and ask them to fix it, if not then "fix" every car in there with a equal size dent.

vietstuh

lol believe me, i've thought about that so much hahaha but it is a small standalone shop though and it's almost impossible to report them or even try and prove it at a small claims court due to the fact that they don't even give invoices or receipts so its pretty hard to even prove that they worked on my car at all..

this looks like my only option rite now. my other option is to jack up the other parts of the wheel well so it's equally dented up... if wheel well was 5-6 inches up, that's less of the car to scrape rite ? lol but i think i'm gonna go with the first optino though. haha

well these guys chose to do nothing except talk shizzle about me in spanish and saying how they never touched it ..

hahaha i just love CL violence dude lol..

rodel

iTrader: (3)

yeah, do was he says and damage other customers' cars.

I've gone to La Puent tires too. They are cheap, but I have to admit, they don't do the best work. Next time, just pay a little more. There is a Discount Tire a few miles down the street in Walnut.

Teal Sc400

vietstuh, call immigration services and have them DEPORTED!