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Beware Dodgy Mechanics Brtisbane

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Here is a story for all Brisbane skyline owners shoudl read, I took my Car to edited to get a noise in muffler cheked out, the mechanic said i cant do it till next week so i had to wait as i TRusted him anyway when i took my car there to be fixed and i was quoted a couple of hunderd.

i dropped car off and two weeks later and a few hundred calls around to see if he finished i was told its the turbos that need replacing, so i found some second hand ones and had them put on. Luckly the way was a sau member and sold me some really good cond ones.

then i was quoted 400 to hae turbo put on. i was ok with that too. as i said car was sitting in his garage for 2 weeks, and he charged me 1200 dollars, as well as all this when i got my car back i had cracks in my sideskirts and my intercooler was not connected(had to do it myself) also cars spark plugs had to be changed as they needed replacing and had to baby car home same night as it sounded like a wrx and lost all powr .

anyway let this be a warning to all you guys edited is a shitty workshop and cannot be trusted.i am still to get an invoice mailed to me till today.

will be definetly taking it further with RACQ as well as fair trading.

c yas

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Removed workshop name. PM zilla 33 if you need the details.
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of course though, what he did is inexcuseable (in lighto of what I said above - that was just a comment), also, 1200 for somethign that was quoted less, and stuffing up the car totally, and damaging it is unacceptable.

I know that if it was me, I wouldn't pay the invoice, and if he wished to commence proceedings against me, he most certainly would have a cross claim against him.

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Sorry blokes. I had to remove the workshop name. It is not to be published publicly. If you're in Brisbane, please feel free to PM zilla33.

No, this isn't meant to be censorship. This is meant to stop Christian (SAU owner) from being sued and us losing SAU. Please shoot over a PM if you wish to discuss further.

Cheers! Mark

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