Problems with rebuilt manual tranny

Old Sep 13, 2007 | 11:33 AM
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Ya thats almost twice the price of a faceplated syncro
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Camaro_Zach
IMO anytime you have a shop work on something, then you take out out and work on it or have another shop work on the same part...the warranty is null and void....

try it, go buy a new vette, take it to any speed shop (or do it yourself), have em swap out heads for a set of AFR's. then go back to gm and tell em you have a leaky head gakset now.

all this 3rd gear shifting bs aside, warranty is valid where the work is done if nothing else has been done to the part or surroundings. Thats just my take on it, and GM's, and fords, and dodge, and honda, and toyota, and subaru, and bmw, and mercedes bens, and VW, and land rover, and jaguar, and kia, and mini. Im sure some "other" places have this same spin on things. but who knows, we could all be morons. Not saying its not crap, just saying it IS how "warrantys work". Not to mention that sticker on all electronics...made so if you open up the electronic the warranty is void...yeah...I wont list all the companies that do that cause its borderline all of them.
no other shop worked on this car... well ok all RPM did was bleed the clutch. took them not 2 hours and the car was done.
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 11:48 AM
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well louis thats what he wanted to hear... he just wanted to shed some light on the situation and get yalls attention.

but 100% you have not seen this car racing on the internet if you have please show us cause someone stole it and was out racing it and put it back...

and also at this point no one is arguing the price of parts, granted he was upset at the time when it messed up a second time. but all that aside lets just get the car fixed...

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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by 87fierose
At this point i start having a problem with the clutch sliping so I get a new billet flywheel and spec2 pressure plate and new disc.I get my car back together again for one day now.
So apparently your name is Lou or Louis and your last name is the same as theirs. Cause according to you, "I" = LG.

Again, YOU swap heads on a new vette, go to gm tell em you got a leaky head gasket now. See how that pans out.
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 11:55 AM
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Zach he pulled the tranny himself and reinstalled it... read the post
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 11:59 AM
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AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS? WTF EVERYONE


I KNOW HE PULLED IT

HE VOIDED THE WARRANTY BY WORKING ON THE CAR

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE

READ MY POSTS DAMMIT

IF YOU OR A SHOP SCREW WITH SOMETHING ANOTHER SHOP DID, THE WARRANTY IS VOID IMO. JUST LIKE IF YOU **** WITH A FACTORY WARRANTY CAR YOU HAVE VOIDED YOUR WARRANTY.

maybe you guys can read my **** if its in caps...unreal...
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Camaro_Zach
AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS?
That's a good question...
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 12:05 PM
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For real you are acting like a douche nozzle.....
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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by NickcZ28
So I guess you guys dont buy direct from Tremec??hmmm I know the GM price is that but TREMEC's is waaaay cheaper
Shops charge full or very close to full retail/M.S.R.P., not the cost they purchase the part for.
This is how they stay in business and money is made.
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 12:17 PM
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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by AGRV8D
For real you are acting like a douche nozzle.....
I dont think so. His logic is quite on par with everything I have ever experienced in the car world. LG has no idea what happened when he put his new flywheel/clutch in there... not to mention another shop had their hands on it (I dont care if it was a "simple" bleed). If you are going to get something fixed, then use the same shop for everything if you want to hold on to a warranty.... ESPECIALLY for aftermarket parts.
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Black2001z06
Shops charge full or very close to full retail/M.S.R.P., not the cost they purchase the part for.
This is how they stay in business and money is made.
duhhh Justin, But this was "warr" not retail, if they wanted to help him out since the "RACE READY" tranny crapped out they shouldnt of marked it up 300%.. He never Tore into the tranny..
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 12:39 PM
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Anything can go wrong when installing a transmission... clutch may not be aligned properly, things like that. LG doesnt know that. It would have been better if he brought the entire car in for the work, that way LG can install it themselves to make sure everything went ok.... but he didn't and now LG comes off looking like ******** because they want to make sure that what went wrong is actually their fault. They have been in business for a long time, I am pretty sure that their diagnosis can tell the story of what went wrong.

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Originally Posted by 87fierose
2 of them work at shops and all of them have rebuilt their own cars so we are plenty able
With a comment like that, a thread like this shouldnt be necessary... anyone that works at a shop knows how worthless those are. Makes you wonder what else went on during the multiple install/removal of a transmission.

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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 12:46 PM
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The car is being towed here and Like I said, if it is something related to what we did, Its on my dime. If I tear it apart and it is not related to what we did, it is not on my dime. Either way, Im taking care of it.

You guys have to understand here- How many shops have you guys seen come and go in DFW over the last 6 years? Almost all of them. You can bet your bottom dollar we will be here tomorrow, and next year, and the year after that. You cannot stay in business long if you do the wrong thing, and we make sure that we do our best to do the right thing. Some customers may want to think that they are right all of the time, but that isnt the case sometimes. Its a fine line we walk, stay in business and charge a fair price, or be a "nice guy" and not be here next month....


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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Louis
The car is being towed here and Like I said, if it is something related to what we did, Its on my dime. If I tear it apart and it is not related to what we did, it is not on my dime. Either way, Im taking care of it.

You guys have to understand here- How many shops have you guys seen come and go in DFW over the last 6 years? Almost all of them. You can bet your bottom dollar we will be here tomorrow, and next year, and the year after that. You cannot stay in business long if you do the wrong thing, and we make sure that we do our best to do the right thing. Some customers may want to think that they are right all of the time, but that isnt the case sometimes. Its a fine line we walk, stay in business and charge a fair price, or be a "nice guy" and not be here next month....


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I have to totally agree on what you said Louis, there's always 3 sides to the story. It all comes down to what is found when the tranny is torn down again.
Very well stated.
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by DSIM
I dont think so. His logic is quite on par with everything I have ever experienced in the car world. LG has no idea what happened when he put his new flywheel/clutch in there... not to mention another shop had their hands on it (I dont care if it was a "simple" bleed). If you are going to get something fixed, then use the same shop for everything if you want to hold on to a warranty.... ESPECIALLY for aftermarket parts.
Thank you sir.

Guys im flipping out cause youre not reading what I type, not that you arent agreeing with me, furthermore emphasizing that youre not reading anything.

I know he took it out himself, since my first post. that was the ENTIRE POINT OF THE POST. then he chimes in "no shop worked on it, I did" RIGHT I KNOW, I SAID YOU OR A SHOP.

Anyways, I didnt say LG didnt **** up the trans, could be? My point is dont it WAS ok, you took it out, put it back in, and its f'ed up. Could of been bad timing, could of been your fault, could be lg's fault. IF you had LG do the work on the clutch/flywhee, then id be on your side with LG doing all the work 100% for free. but you were the last to touch it, imo, its your problem now.

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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by AGRV8D
Zach he pulled the tranny himself and reinstalled it... read the post

Originally Posted by AGRV8D
For real you are acting like a douche nozzle.....

Im the douche nozzle cause you didnt read my post, the one RIGHT ABOVE yours where I said the following...

Originally Posted by Camaro_Zach
So apparently your name is Lou or Louis and your last name is the same as theirs. Cause according to you, "I" = LG.

Again, YOU swap heads on a new vette, go to gm tell em you got a leaky head gasket now. See how that pans out.

Sounds to me like I knew exactly what was goin on...then you tell me to read...after not reading my post...

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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 01:18 PM
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You should have brought it back to LG if you weren't happy; not tinker with it. You had a warranty, it would have made sense to bring it back to the shop that did the work in the first place.
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by epic
You should have brought it back to LG if you weren't happy; not tinker with it. You had a warranty, it would have made sense to bring it back to the shop that did the work in the first place.
agreed. I did this when my "race ready" tranny from another shop was getting stuck in 4th. I pulled/installed it myself. Took it up there once, the shop had it for 2 weeks. Put it back in the car, they didnt fix a thing. Took it back, they had it for another 3 weeks, and I had to pay for the parts, he said I was racing it and the parts side of the warranty couldnt be covered, but he wouldnt charge me labor..All of this after I was told "this tranny will hold whatever you can throw at it." It didnt make me mad that I had to pay the extra $450, what made me mad was I had to pull/install it twice, and I was without a car for over a month, and left to go back to school and had no car. And it got to the point where he wouldnt answer my calls, or was never around. He pretty much showed me how much he appreciated my business the first time around when he f*cked me over on the warranty work. I will never go back there again. But I will keep the name of the shop quiet, since they arent a vendor on here.
Old Sep 13, 2007 | 02:40 PM
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Ive seen videos of you racing online, so you cant tell me with a straight face that you dont beat on it. You also had issues with your hondas 3rd gear, so we are a bit skeptical when it comes to this issue. As a business owner, you have to be, otherwise you will not be in business for long.
If you are not in the buisness of burning people why are you treating him like $hit and trying to say he beats the crap out of his car just because you may have saw him racing in a video online. Is this so that when you get his car back to your shop you will feel better about charging him double for parts and labor? You are a "Performance Shop" and know people are going to go out and race thier cars. That is the reason they buy parts from you so when they hit the gas they don't have to worry. I understand the fact that he pulled his own transmission and had another shop put in a clutch so that is why you don't want to honor the warranty but this does not mean you treat him like crap and accuse him of mistreating his car.

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