was the exhaust including extractors or from the extractors??
Trouble with a workshop.
Ok, So today I picked up my 86 from the shop that it has been in for the last 2 weeks. I started it up and within seconds I something sounded wrong, exhuast leak. Me being me, and getting the shits and just getting the thing fixed, I went ahead and had a friend weld up the holes.
Whilst the car was up in the air I got a good chance to have a look at the exhaust, Then the question came up of whether or not the 'highflow cat' is really a high flow cat.
We had a look at the inside of a high flow cat and also one almost identical to the one found in my exhaust which wasn't a highflow cat, just a metal one.
The exhuast is also terribly welded together with pieces of 2.5" and 2.25" piping so somehow make an exhuast. This has been sited by another member of this forum (triklzane) and also another exhuast shop owner.
Right now I'm pretty unsure what I should do. Should I complain? (Can I complain after I have mucked around with it???) ATM I have this attitude of "never bringing my car to the shop again".
There is a chance that the cat isn't what I got sold, but is there any way to tell if your cat is a high flow without looking inside it? Imprinted into the cat it says 'CAT003' then under it it says '037-***' or something like that.
To get a wheel alignment, exhuast, install LCA, lock spacer, new tie rods and steering arms was all up $850, I feel ripped off and don't really know what to do. And also the car doesn't steer straight either.
omg,
Clinton
Last edited by Clinton; 21st November 2009 at 06:09 PM.
FTP.Originally Posted by svenmate
was the exhaust including extractors or from the extractors??
Launceston = Home of the surprise sodomist!!
Dude. Exhaust should have costed you like 300, 500 max with an good cat.
Should have given it to me
I would take it back and be like WTF.
no all they did was weld a cat and tip on, you got mega ripped of dude
mereki.
~KEEP DRIFTING FUN~
I reckon you defiantly got ripped. I am presuming you supplied parts like the LCA, lock spacer, tie rods and steering arms though.
If they only welded a tip and cat on I know it would of only costed me about $200 - $250. And wheel alignment around $50 max.
So $500 + in labour . . . far out
i got a full new exhaust - extractors back for 100.
EDIT: dont know if i have a cat though, haven't been under my car yet.
Last edited by Chaos Theory; 21st November 2009 at 07:49 PM.
just tell them ur unhappy with the work, fuck em round a bit then get ur shit and leave,
the only way to get ur money back
Item : SPRINTER
+10 to agility
+30 commodore resistance
90% chance cast skid (while cornering)
i learnt this last yr with an exhaust shop, unless its a 'performance' specalized shop their tossers
if they try to fuck you fuck them back
Item : SPRINTER
+10 to agility
+30 commodore resistance
90% chance cast skid (while cornering)
by "it doesnt steer strait" do you mean the steering wheel isnt centred? rack isnt centred or it pulls to one side?
go and see them and have a talk to them. dont go in swearing to start with.
This is exactly why I do everything myself.
Its just not worth risking people doing shit work, there aren't many people in the auto trades you can completely trust these days.
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