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Old May 6, 2012 | 12:05 PM
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This is shocking, I've been out for a while also but I ordered from them numerous times when I had my goat. I'm in Louisiana and they used to get my stuff to me in a day or so. Sad to hear.
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Old May 7, 2012 | 12:03 PM
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RIP Thunder Racing!!!!!
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Old May 30, 2012 | 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Mustang Hat'r 2
ordered monday, its wolf but payed with paypal so worst case it wont be hard to get tthe $$ back. No tracking yet waiting for it, wolfs site said 3-5 weeks for roll bars
Been what 6 weeks not a f-en thing, no e-mail wont answer there phone or return mine. What a freaking joke. Gave those guys insane amounts of money in the past.
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Old May 30, 2012 | 11:14 PM
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Thunder fucked me over so I called Geoff @ eps formerly from TR and he had my cam out in less than a week.
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Old Jun 7, 2012 | 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Mustang Hat'r 2
Been what 6 weeks not a f-en thing, no e-mail wont answer there phone or return mine. What a freaking joke. Gave those guys insane amounts of money in the past.
Paypal got me full refund, didnt loose any money just a dam headach
Jay
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Old Jun 8, 2012 | 12:10 PM
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Well at least you didn't end up on the losing end of that.
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Old Jun 9, 2012 | 02:07 AM
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Sad to hear, these guys hooked me up with my 1st rnd of mods.
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Old Jun 9, 2012 | 02:29 AM
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Had nothing but praise for TR but it seems they really took a hit with Katrina.
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Old Jun 9, 2012 | 02:32 AM
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Or when Geoff left
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Old Jun 9, 2012 | 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Anthony Williams
Had nothing but praise for TR but it seems they really took a hit with Katrina.
Not this

Originally Posted by clonedws6
Or when Geoff left
This
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Old Jun 9, 2012 | 06:15 PM
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Anybody know why Geoff left? Thunder was one of the big shops for LSX back in the day.
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Old Jun 11, 2012 | 09:06 AM
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Very sad but also very true, I used to order everything from Thunder. I spent at least 10k there in the last 2 years. My latest and will be the last order from them was 5400.00. Got the run around from Angie about how everything was on back order. I called trick flow and they said they had everything on the shelf, the order never came from TR. Took me nine weeks to get trick flow/TEA heads that were in stock at trick flow!! Very sad and poor comunication from TR the entire time. What a waste of a business.
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Old Jun 11, 2012 | 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by TXZ28LS1
Anybody know why Geoff left? Thunder was one of the big shops for LSX back in the day.
Its a long story on personal issues on both sides from what I heard, but just know that Geoff is in a better position now.
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Old Aug 1, 2012 | 10:35 PM
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I wish i had discovered this thread a month ago.... Here goes:

A few weeks ago i ordered a set of cometic head gaskets from thunder racing. When they failed to arrive the next week i called and asked what the deal was. They said, "they should ship by the end of the week." I'm like WTF? A week later i call wondering where they are, and they said they'll be shipped that day and I'd receive a tracking number. I asked if he was 100% sure, and he said yes. At that point i was pretty pissed. I called again yesterday(another week later), and they said they had LOST MY ******* ORDER. So i got a refund and bought them from ws6store. Never in my life have i gotten so much bullshit run-around and ball-face lies from a company. Needless to say, I'll never be doing business with them again. Even the refund took over 24 hours and 3 phone calls. On the 3rd phone call he told me the paypal refund had been submitted the day before. 3 minutes after we got off the phone i received the refund......lying sack of ****.

So yea. Long story short, **** thunder racing and their incredible ability to waste my ******* time and money. Now it's no wonder at all why they're going out of business. The sooner, the better.
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Old Aug 2, 2012 | 07:06 AM
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Yeah man they really do suck. Thanks for your more recent story. Hopefully more people will read this before they buy.
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Old Aug 27, 2012 | 11:20 AM
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TR and Speed used to be my preferred vendors when I was more active in modding/etc. speed is still doing good tho.
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Old Sep 14, 2012 | 01:17 AM
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but i also have the worst customer service ever!pay for a stroker cam and they didnt told me that was out of stock,then after 1 week waiting call to gene of TR and told ,ow excuse me you need to wait 1 month because we are out of stock,,call on tuesday to cancel me the order and refund my money via paypal,and didnt recieve yet,,call 5 times daily Sent 2 mails daily,leave messages in the answer machine and didnt call back!and its very diffcult to some one takes the answer,i will never buy anything from this guys ever!!
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Old Sep 14, 2012 | 07:17 AM
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there seems to be a pattern here........how the **** are they still in business??
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Old Sep 14, 2012 | 08:15 AM
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Keep this thread going so they are NO LONGER IN BUSINESS. POST IT EVERYWHERE
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Old Sep 14, 2012 | 08:20 AM
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Wow! What a shame.
I used to order from them 5+years ago and they were one of my favs. This is bad news.
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