Vladi

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1) 06 silver/brown wrx that melted a cylinder as it was getting tuned due to running out of fuel.
2) 06 blue wrx that I bought with a blown engine that had all work done and tuned by you that popped ringlands, scarred crank, and spun bearings.
3) 06 silver sti that came to you for diagnosis of a check engine light and horrible running, you replaced up-pipe gasket, and admitted that was all you could find wrong with it. I inspected it and told him motor is on its way out due to spun brearing. Sure enough, it let go a week later. I rebuilt it for him and its still running.
4) 05 black sti that came to you with all sorts of issues: vacuum leaks, rough running, misfires, etc. You told him the whole engine was completely done for and would require ubber ammounts of money to make run correctly again. He came to me, I replaced a few leaking vacuum hoses, a couple gaskets, retuned it (was one of the MAJOR issues) and its still running to this day without 1 single issue.
5)white 06 wrx that had the 18g setup that let go after being worked on by you. You replaced the longblock from what I recall and he sold it cause he was sick of it.
6) 05 blue wrx that came to you with a/c problems that you quoted 600 to fix. He drove directly to me, I charged him 20 bux to replace a couple small things that were causing a leak, tested his pump to make sure it was operating correctly, and recharged his a/c system. Still runnign good to this day. He came back for a tune and is now absolutely in love with how his car performs as well as has working a/c.
7) The freshly built 2.6L that I looked at yesterday that's knocking/ticking like a time bomb. I'll admit I only took a very quick look at it and didn't want to touch it since it was done by you and should be re-done by you if need be. I sincerely hope for the owners sake its not what I think it is.
8) blue 07 wrx wagon that was quoted over 1k for vf39/tmic install as well as tune. Came to me, got a compression test, and got it all installed/tuned for less than half and is running great to this day. I still have his road dyno plot with a beautiful curve and healthy powerband.
9) white 06 sti that got tein suspension, tbe, and custom dyno tune from you. Came to me cause of a few hesitation issues juse a few months ago. 3port bcs and re-tune later his car is making 20whp and 35wtq more, he sold his accessport and came out 400 on top all said and done, with more power and money in his pocket.
10) silas car....you basically told him you won't work on his giant POS. Then quoted him 600 to replace inlet, and a few other items. He came to me cause he couldn't afford even half of what you quoted, and got everything but the tune sorted out for less than 1/4 the price.
Those are just a few that come to mind. I just woke up (sleeping in on a saturday) and can't recall many more but I GUARANTEE you there are more that I've dealt with over the past 2 years. Its been 2 years now: I can't recall every single incident in detail. If you think I'm making any of this up or exaggerating know this: I have no reason to lie to anyone about any of this. Helping your customers and taking your business is ABSOLUTELY NOT my goal. I don't do it for a living, I do it as a side job/hobby. No matter how much I try to be nice you'll always hound me. No matter how much I repeat that I'M NOT ADVERTISING MY SERVICES in any way you'll still think I'm stealing any and all customers from you. I inspected the parts to that 2.6L motor and quoted him a price 2 times lower than yours. I said he should go to you though if he had even a tiny bit of interest to do so. I don't care really. You do cause it pays for your bills and puts bread on your table. I get that. And yet you still hound me constantly about every post/comment on here.

Crap happens. People make mistakes. Having a BAR certification doesn't make you immune from that. Its not about how nice your shop/equipment are, its about the quality of work that you do. If someone comes to you with an improperly set up car, or abused, you do work to it and it still lets go a few weeks/months later having a BAR certification won't stop you from telling the owner "tough crap, your car was already messed up, what did you expect"....If you do make a mistake and they come back you'll replace things for them to make it right. I'd do the same. Having a BAR # isn't what causes you to do that. There are tons of people out there doing great work without a piece of paper saying "this guy knows more than that a car has 4 wheels".

And lastly, I just want you to know: I'm not mad
I don't care, really. I know things happen and that's life. Just stop pretending like you've NEVER made a mistake and just cause you're BAR certified you can hound everyone else for not being "up to par". Especially since those people aren't directly competing with you. Maybe consider a strategy of RAISING MYSELF TO BE BETTER instead of BADMOUTHING EVERYONE ELSE TO MAKE ME LOOK BETTER. People come to ME, and regardless of how bad you try to make me look on this little site that doesn't affect my business, they still keep calling me. So we can either keep talking trash or just leave it alone cause its not constructive in any way. And you stand to lose more from this than I, since this isn't my full time job.

PS: I know you'll find a million reasons for every one of those 10 I brought up that will make you look good and the customer bad/in the wrong. It doesn't matter though, cause in the end its about what the owner of the car thinks and where he chooses to do business again.
I'm not asking for your respect, or friendship, or ANYTHING. Just that you stop trying to make me look bad on THIS site. Ignore me if you want, its not like I post often. I barely post here. Your goons have nothing better to come up with besides make fun of spelling/grammar and blindly flame and fling crap at other people cause they know ZERO about cars, tuning, and all related subjects.

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