To all Arizona Members, Fab Auto Painting should be avoided
09-22-2009, 04:29 PM
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To all Arizona Members, Fab Auto Painting should be avoided The New Daily Driver I bought has been under there care and frankly its not painted still as well as some other problems coming up.
I will keep it short since we all know I get carried away.
Tung an Employee of FAB Auto Painting:
2110 N Stone Ave
Tucson, AZ 85705-5647
(520) 396-3446
And his friend agreed to paint my vehicle and the Tail lights on it. I provided materials, extra's requested, paint everything. Yet I have an unpainted car after the deadline given and problems.
1) The tails were agreed to as free then I was charged 150 for them. After finally being able to test them I found dark lines in them (Runs) I asked for them to be corrected.
2) I was told that they also needed Sealer which I paid for (I have never used it before but thats fine) and then after that he needed more paint. He told me a pint of black was 50.00... I went down the street less than a Block and bought a pint for less than 20.00.....
3) After being upset when I found out the car was not going to be done and frankly was not even ready to spray I asked to pick it up. When I asked if the lights were fixed he claimed there was no issue (This was during the day) I took them out to show him and found primer over spray all over one of them.
Tung started yelling and took the keys to the car I called the cops and got a case report as well as the items (Sealer) they were refusing to give to me.
I am out the 160 and have to fix the tails but I wanted others here to know. Its a small shop and I did not get to meet the owner until I called the cops.
The owners name is Freddy and while he seemed nice he was more than upset with me just because I called the cops. When he told his story in front of one of the officers to me and I told him mine we were decent and polite but he then turned around and lied to the other cop present to which the second cop caught him in such a lie and they finally agreed to give me the Sealer I had paid for.
It was clear from his comment after that of:
"I work on custom cars all day, this means nothing to me." after lying to the cop that this may not just be a single employee issue.
So warning to all who care to know, there is more than something shady at FAB Auto Paint.
I will keep it short since we all know I get carried away.
Tung an Employee of FAB Auto Painting:
2110 N Stone Ave
Tucson, AZ 85705-5647
(520) 396-3446
And his friend agreed to paint my vehicle and the Tail lights on it. I provided materials, extra's requested, paint everything. Yet I have an unpainted car after the deadline given and problems.
1) The tails were agreed to as free then I was charged 150 for them. After finally being able to test them I found dark lines in them (Runs) I asked for them to be corrected.
2) I was told that they also needed Sealer which I paid for (I have never used it before but thats fine) and then after that he needed more paint. He told me a pint of black was 50.00... I went down the street less than a Block and bought a pint for less than 20.00.....
3) After being upset when I found out the car was not going to be done and frankly was not even ready to spray I asked to pick it up. When I asked if the lights were fixed he claimed there was no issue (This was during the day) I took them out to show him and found primer over spray all over one of them.
Tung started yelling and took the keys to the car I called the cops and got a case report as well as the items (Sealer) they were refusing to give to me.
I am out the 160 and have to fix the tails but I wanted others here to know. Its a small shop and I did not get to meet the owner until I called the cops.
The owners name is Freddy and while he seemed nice he was more than upset with me just because I called the cops. When he told his story in front of one of the officers to me and I told him mine we were decent and polite but he then turned around and lied to the other cop present to which the second cop caught him in such a lie and they finally agreed to give me the Sealer I had paid for.
It was clear from his comment after that of:
"I work on custom cars all day, this means nothing to me." after lying to the cop that this may not just be a single employee issue.
So warning to all who care to know, there is more than something shady at FAB Auto Paint.
Last edited by Cross; 09-22-2009 at 04:36 PM.
09-22-2009, 07:41 PM
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wow man sorry to hear, not trying to hijack but some people are shady like that my gf's mom had her dad's old childhood bike painted and restored they tried charging her like 1k and they totally f'd it up and didn't do anything the way they had agreed on and made it more like something the bike shop guys wanted she complained and she was called a polar bear and other rude comments she left and called the owner which was more than happy to cut 50 percent off the cost but still just lame to see how customer service is treated like secondary priority or less than that
09-23-2009, 04:12 AM
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I did and quite a few other forums all across the board. I made sure any AZ board I was on got the information even the Vette, BMW, Honda you name it they all know.