Do You Know Of Any Good And Nasty Motorsport Related Lawyer?

[9krpm]

My friend is having trouble getting his car back in drivable condition from a workshop. The workshop did some engineering & welding for him and the weld did not hold, did a lot of damage to his brand new drive train while he was testing some other stuff for the workshop on the track. He was lucky to have walked away from the event. The car could have flipped, his limbs could have been amputated or worst. He paid (out of his pocket) close to $2k for another clutch to replace the irrepairable damaged clutch to speed up the repair process. He has been promised many times in the past 5 months that the job will be done after many certain events. However the due dates have never been met and there have been endless excuses.

My friend is sick of going to the workshop atm as he only get to hear lies and he is loosing his sanity. When he called the workshop manager, he always got the response that the manager was busy and will call back the following day or the manager has been very busy and has not had a chance to deal with what ever issues discussed and will call back the following day. There has not been any return call. There is no warranty offered at all according to the manager because " the car was on the track" and "we did not know that your original part will hold our weld". My friend still wait for the manager to confirm this with the work shop owners. He talked to the owners and he get to hear more promises.

My friend's car is currently parked in the car park. It's a convertible. The roof is fading away with the OZ summer sun and the car has not been washed for months. It costed my friend $2000 for insurrance, registration etc etc to have the car park there looking and smelling like a POS in the past 5 months. If he had any idea that it will take longer than this he could of cancel these expenses. I think my friend has aldready cancel these expenses last week. He is furious and is willing to pay top money for any hungry lawyers to get the job finish asap. Has my friend got a case and do you know of any good law firm? My friend knows a lot of law firms because he does a lot of workcover reports for them but any extra guidance is appreciated.

I have not got any good advise to give him at all beside calling the OCBA (http://www.ocba.sa.gov.au/).

If you are in dismay or having a good laugh at this....it is a true sad story and I am using his account without him knowing it. He is not stupid but he is being treated like a dumb c@nt by this workshop. Lets count to the day that he get a return phone call.

[9krpm]

Oh I forgot, when the bell house's weld dissociated, the clutch and flywheel consequently separated at 9k rpm. The engine + fly wheel had momentum to reved to 11000rpm on the data log for a very brief few milliseconds. So the engine might be stuffed too

One would hope that any descent workshop will rush to the rescue with such circumstances and get the car back to the road/track asap. On the contrary, the repair process has been severely delayed and then the no warranty because you were on the track trick :

My blood boils for my friend.

Edited March 27, 2006 by 9krpm

[9krpm]

Bugger, friend got hold of my laptop and see what happened !!!

Anyhow, what she posted is so true though. You can stretch friendship to a certain extend but 5 + months to repair a stuff up job is not on. As soon as I leave SA on Thursday and there is no promising sign of completion then I will let the OBCA and my lawyer deal with this. My precioius time has been wasted so much from this stuff up event

Sorry for the whinges guys.

Edited March 28, 2006 by 9krpm

[Nozila]

sounds like yopu have been fcuked pretty hard

[Deluxe]

Sorry to hear all this.........Could you please PM me the name of the workshop so i know not to go there EVER!!!!

[r31turbo]

v sorry to hear all this...can you also pm me the shops name. also im leaving of fri for the f1 also i can get you in touch with a good lawyer if need my friend works as a lawyer for the biggest firm in adelaide so i can contact him but it sounds like you have it under control. somewhat

[heslo]

I'd like to know too, don't want to get bitten by them also

[vange]

same

[Madaz]

wot a tradgedy man i thought i had problems ...

BTW which workshop was it so i dont take my problems there and come out 2nd best

also have u had work done on ur front diff in the GTR or are we talking about a different car all together

[Shrub32]

can you please pm me the name of the workshop also!! ouch

[9krpm]

also have u had work done on ur front diff in the GTR or are we talking about a different car all together

It's the honda that's having problem atm. I think most pple on here know which workshop the car is at.

For the skyline I will only go to Willall Racing. The front diff is not yet in as I had a late night on Saturday at a friend's engagement. The car still did 1:20, 1:21 at Mallala with me driving and 1:18 with Luke Youden in the driver seat.

[GFXman]

pm me too

[gtrtech]

PM shop to me as well.

Can we please do a sticky for workshops that actually do the right thing.

This type of treatment from any business is bullsh__, but when your talking high performance vehicles it's effing criminal. Literally.

[savage GTR]

pm me aswell because they dont deserve another cent of any skyline owner's money.

[Silver bullet]

you should be able to get the rego money back. I did this years ago, just had to sign a stat dec to say that the car had been off the road the whole time and they gave me a refund (minus fees)

can you PM me the name of the workshop

Good luck with it all