Hi all
I am hoping to get advice from you guys in regards to my current situation.
My R33 GTR has been in and out of a workshop for over 6 months. It took about 3 months for me to source the front end parts of an R34 GTR. All the parts, headlights, bonnet, front bar and lip are genuine R34 GTR parts. The only non genuine parts I had to get were the conversion fenders. Originally I bought copy URAS ones, but they were not very good, I was able to get genuine URAS R334 fenders which are discontinued, getting them sent from Croatia from a guy who cancelled he's plans on a R334.
All the parts have been there at the workshop for about 2 months, but the workshop was very busy and they only started on my car about 10 days ago. I got a call today telling me that they aren't happy with the fitment, that the bonnet does not line up right with the URAS fenders and the R34 headlights don't line up with the bonnet.
I understand it's a custom job, and they knew it would be a custom job when they accepted to do it. It seems they have little to no experience with custom work, but I went to them because of their great reputation for high quality work, and they told me they could do it for me and I was fine with the 10k quote they gave me. They are the preferred repairer for one of the luxury euro car brands.
I am going to go to the workshop tomorrow, the owner wanted me to see he's concerns in person. I have a feeling now that they are not up to the job on doing the R34 GTR front on my R33 GTR.
Has anyone pulled the pin on a workshop before? How do I go about doing it? Do I ask for a bill of their labour / and cost so far and pay that?
Another issue is, while my car was there, they told me a "customer" damaged the rear quarter of my car while it was in the parking area. I guess I would get them to pay for the cost to repair that if i go else where?
Advice is much appreciated.
Thank you. Sorry for the long post.
Tim