[s-cars] Blown turbo & Life lesson #3568921

[Joe Pizzimenti]

So why are they unnamed?

It's not like you're making it up...or are you?

-pizzo

On Jun 15, 2010 5:50 PM, "Stoddard Robin" <rstoddard at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Exactly as it should be...
> Any company worth existing should be able to say "very sorry we sold you a
bad product. How can we solve this?". Instead of "it took you three years to
get the car running? Well lucky us and tough xxxx for you." Which leaves me
with the only choice of having the turbo fixed locally.
>
> To add insult to injury, I was told by this unnamed company that I could
either get it fixed or buy a new cartridge from them for $750. It will be a
long time if I ever decide to buy anything else from these guys again.
What's really sad is that it's not like I only bought a bolt from them for
$2, over the years I have spent close to $20k with these guys on building
the car up.
>
> RS
>
>
> On 2010-06-15, at 3:13 PM, Douglas Landaeta wrote:
>
>> And a reptable place, like perhaps ECS, warranted a bad porsche caliper a
year or so after selling it (GB) for me after careful splanation and
documenting that the install just occurred and the sale was some 15 months
prior.
>>
>> Ya'know, even weldo will make good on a bad part.
>>
>> Doug
>> Some unamed vehicle manufacturer,
>> Parts and Services Program Manager
>>
>> Sent from my mobile
>>
>> On Jun 15, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Robin Stoddard <rstoddard at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> I bought a pair of new RS4 turbos from a tuner that specializes in
>>> Audi based mods three years ago for a race car build. Only to find
>>> out (now that the car finally runs) that one of the new turbos is
>>> blown. The company's response that sold them to me is "sucks to be
>>> you" because we (or anyone else) will not warrent our parts for that
>>> long.
>>>
>>> So the lesson here is, TEST your f'n parts before you install them
>>> espescially when dealing with a certain Audi turner/parts company.
>>>
>>>
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