Me And An Unfortunate Series Of Events...

[Deluxe]

sorry to hear about your issues, I bought some front rotors from them a while back.......but that was when Christian was there, maybe thats when they had a chance........but for now GONE!

Read the RED type in the first post and you will know the name of the joint!!

[bixby]

How I wish I would be able to "decode" the "hidden" message under the "red texts".

I should probably say this, I am a newbie. I've only got my car for 9 months - haven't stepped into lots of workshops around here. Been to 4 workshops only so far and 1 of them already turned out to be an idiot. Don't feel like stepping into hell like this again thou, especialy after knowing what had happened to one of our members here.

[HOSTILE]

Perhaps we should start a thread for newbies that has information regarding workshops etc that members here in SA have had good experiences with. Not a sh#t canning session on bad ones but a place to say who has done right by you.

[vange]

its 2 early 2 start decoding coloured words lol

[mid life crisis]

http://www.fourbrotherimports.com/ wonder if this is the place :-)

[PimpnQ45]

hey man thats tuff luck but really if u had got an RAA check on the car b4 you bought it you wouldnt have gone through all this but hey thats just my opinion. good luck with gettn it all fixed

RAA can't be trusted to do inspections properly.

I personally know of 2 people who got shafted by the RAA doing worthless inspections...

One was REALLY bad... apparently had a HUGE front ender, and was repaired (but not very well), suspension all shot, engine mount broken, dicky trans, fuel tank leaked.... not fuel line... fuel TANK.

What did the RAA say????

"No problem with this car, go ahead and buy it"

[AZZA]

Sorry to hear about the bad news mate. I do hope that things take a turn for the better. The idea that HOSTILE had about the place to take your car sounds like a good one. As im from interstate at the moment but will be moving down in a couple of months and then shopping for my V-Spec, so knowledge of places to take it for performance work would be greatly appriciated.

[AZZA]

I didnt think the RAA was that bad, ive always known them to have a good rep. Could have been a newbie to the jobperhaps. But i think that i will be taking a mechanic friend, its the only way to go.

[Madaz]

hey man thats tuff luck but really if u had got an RAA check on the car b4 you bought it you wouldnt have gone through all this but hey thats just my opinion. good luck with gettn it all fixed

RAA dont deal with imports

Federal Bureau of Investigation seems to know wot there doing on criminal intent or am i missing sumthing

thats heaps bad luck man sad to hear...

**edit**

if u still need work done on ur pride and joy give me a PM and ill give u details of who im using for a 2.3g repair to my front diff

Edited April 12, 2006 by Madaz

[bixby]

http://www.fourbrotherimports.com/ wonder if this is the place :-)

Hahahaha..... Thanks for the "encryption key"!. Finally "decoded" the "hidden" message of the "red texts"!

[heslo]

Hehe bixby, bit slow are we?

So are these guys shut down for good or what?

[Madaz]

hopefully they havnt moved to port road and renames as

Kansia Motors or sumthing like that right next to Mazda Motors on Pt Road

[heslo]

Madaz, you implying something there or just being sarcastic?

[Madaz]

no im being Frank

i dont know wot FBI guys look like and they could of easily rented another place and be trading as Kansia Motors, now these guys are of italian type ethnicity and well its a small world with many shonky operators

but certainly wasnt being sarcastic

[ross80]

that sux man.

I have a similar story,

I blew my motor up and decided to have a wrecking yard/mechanic/importer put a new one in for me.

When I got car back I noticed it sounded like a tractor, wouldnt boost up and ran like shit. Wouldnt even idle properley.

I rang the guy and he said bring it back after xmas holidays and ill fix it for free. I did that and the number was disconected. damn.

I got hold of him through a guy who knew where he was. He got shut down by authorities.

I told him car is stuffed and he wasnt really prepared to help me out with that until conveniently I let him know his new boss where he was working is my best mates step dad and his new job could be in danger of ending if he doesnt cooperate.

Took 3 weeks and I have it back now and its pretty good. Not 100% however.

It had massive exhaust leaks, inlet leaks, and vacum leaks. Apparently it wasnt like that when he finished it. like f@$jk

[lfc]

Well from waht the solicitor of the land son of rajab said that let me in to get ym car out said they have been locked out because havent been paying rent, they will get a chance to pay the rent if not they can start selling their stuff to make up the rent money.. personally i dont think they will be opening up again... not there anyway.

[HR-32]

Sorry to hear that Ifc. Hope it works out for you mate! So much for family businesses......they're probably imbred, do they walk on all fours??

Yeah there seems to be a lot of 'shonky' workshops out there! I had to spend over $600 to find out that my $85 coil was stuffed, that was at a certain "auto centre" in Woodcroft, starts with an A?(A for Adam's) Anyway they replaced my AFM spent 3 hours labour to find out the problem was what I told them in the first place. They said it was 99.99% AFM problem. So they replaced the AFM and drove it home when 2 minutes down the road it started mis-firing again. Anyway 3 days later get my car back and forked out total $585 for replacement AFM, 3 hours labor and coil. Bastards! Now it doesn't start properly in the morning ever since, takes 2-3 times to start, coughs and splutters then runs ok! According to them it runs 'perfect'. What a joke! Where are all the good mechanics gone??

Edited April 12, 2006 by HR-32

[vange]

Brentons Mechanical Workshop on main north rd, best mechanic around. always worked on my cars, always been cheap and reliable. if my car made a wierd noise id go c him and he'd stop wat he is doing 2 take a quick look. dosent deal with imports but the guys that work there have been around 4 a while n know wat they r doing...recommend them 4 general repairs, n if they cant do it they will tell u some1 they trust 2 go 2.

[Maxx]

RAA dont deal with imports

correct for insurance

incorrect for inspection, they do pre purchase inspection on any car

the guy who bought my R33 called RAA to inspect my car, which they come to me and check the car out in my garage.

From what i seen they did a great job, very decent report

http://wWW.KANSAIAUTOMOTIVE.COM

is owned by Terry, who used to work in JMS

[Deluxe]

Yes Kansai is Terry Volholmus, He came to our Dyno Day a little while back, top bloke and has some killa deals. Definatly has nothing to do with Fedral Beanheads Incorporated!!!