I don't know what the laws are in you part of the US or what you agreed to with the shop but I had an Alfa cylinder head at a very well known shop and they couldn't seem to get around to doing the work. The engine had been damaged by a valve failure that had been traced to a defective part installled by the shop. Since I had done business with the shop for a long time we mutually agreed that I would fix the bottom end and they would re-do another cylinder head at no cost. Sadly, this went back and forth for four years before I simply got tired of it and told the shop to return my cylinder head. I intended to take it elsewhere for repairs... The shop owner kept telling me he would get around to sending it back and that he was working on it... You know the BS! I even showed up unannounced at the shop one day and demanded my parts, I live on the East coast and the shop was in California, and still got nothing. Finally, thourghly disgusted, I called the District Attorney and asked what I could do. He instructed me to send the shop owner a registered letter, return receipt requested, stating the owner had a specific time to box and ship my head and/or provide me with a FedEx/UPS tracking number or face criminal charges. Obviously, though the shop owner had been a friend I was committed to follow through with the D.A. Given the value of the head the shop owner was facing grand theft charges. So I received my tracking number in the mail some four days later. The head arrived at my house three days after that. Imagine my surprise when, after four years of arguing and the threat of criminal charges, I opened the boxed and there sat a perfectly overhauled head ready to bolt onto the car. It worked perfectly and it is still on the car. Sadly the shop owner and I no longer speak to each other and the shop has long gone out of business (go figure) but business is business. Good luck getting your car back
Thomas Gonnella Mid Atlantic -----Original Message----- From: alfa-digest <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, Aug 26, 2010 4:07 pm Subject: alfa-digest V10 #2327 lfa-digest Thursday, August 26 2010 Volume 10 : Number 2327 Forum for Discussion of Alfa Romeos, etc. Richard Welty <[email protected]> Digest Coordinator Contents: [alfa] Alfa parts yard sale Berkeley [alfa] administrivia: Powell's Books [alfa] How can i get my car back ?? RE: [alfa] How can i get my car back ?? Alfa Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/alfa/ Send submissions to [email protected] Send administrative requests to [email protected] To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of he message, unless you are sending the request from a different address han the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a essage to alfa-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo ommands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:50:26 -0700 rom: Michael Gallagher <[email protected]> ubject: [alfa] Alfa parts yard sale Berkeley Andrew, Do you you have an interior rear view mirror with light for a '74 spider? Thanks, Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:30:02 +0000 rom: Richard Welty <[email protected]> ubject: [alfa] administrivia: Powell's Books Other ways to support the digest Richard's Amazon wishlist: ttp://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/7XS7CB5LAXE7/ref=lst_llp_wl-see-all Powell's Books affiliate: rusty Motorsports (parent of digest.net) is affiliated with owell's Books, a highly regarded bookstore in the Pacific Northwest. se this link to access Powells and buy books, and it'll help: http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=25667 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:27:44 +0000 rom: "doskow, j" <[email protected]> ubject: [alfa] How can i get my car back ?? Hi ! i had my 164 trailered to Chicago (~250 miles) to get the timing belt nd cam angle sensor replaced by someone who knows what he's doing, while there the clutch & windshield. hat was JANUARY ! i call him occasionally and he always says it will e done in the next week or two. Anyone have any experience or ideas about how to get the guy to get y car done ?? thanks, ak doskow ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:07:30 -0700 (PDT) rom: ira kaufman <[email protected]> ubject: RE: [alfa] How can i get my car back ?? sounds like a really bad bussines man.as is i wouldnt be put off by the fact hat he may refuse to do your work.if you feel that way he could push the work ff forever.he may have your car but he's not upholding a minimum of ervice.sounds like a prima donna.i would look into alternative mechanical ervice.sometimes places that deal with volvos or saabs are not afraid to ackle alfas also.find a place that agrees to do it and then you could hreaten to remove your car and after its removed if it comes to that hit him ith a small claims suit for the towing and a bit more.don't tell him about he lawsuit till the car is in your posession.what was the problem with the ar anyway.till i retired i had a garage for years in ny and i found more then 5% of the other garages we dealt with to be honest.this putting off thing is razy stuff.its negligent.of course i can't judge being i don't know what you greed with him before the towing of your car to him. --- On Thu, 8/26/10, doskow, j <[email protected]> wrote: rom: doskow, j <[email protected]> ubject: RE: [alfa] How can i get my car back ?? o: "ira kaufman" <[email protected]> ate: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 3:09 PM hanks, good idea, before actually asking any of my lawyer friends i could ention that i'm thinking about it. ne of the problems is that telling him how annoyed i am getting about the ituation will probably make it ven less likely that he'l have any interest in finnishing the project, though ast week i said that i wanted real estimate of the time - tired of the next week crap, & how much it's osting. haven't heard back. ack ------------------------------ End of alfa-digest V10 #2327 *************************** -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
