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

[scott]

I was going to ask that they be named so future buyers can proceed with
caution.

-Scott

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Joe Pizzimenti <joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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