Re: Jeep Clinic - Coimbatore Dear friends and Team Bhpians,
Here is a word by word account of a person who has lost a lot of money to Jeep Clinic. He has given me permission to post this on his behalf only to warn fellow jeep enthusiasts be very careful while dealing with Jeep Gopal and his gang. There are a few other members on this thread who have supplied Vehicles, Spares and accessories and are not commenting because they are still trying to get their money back "Dear friends and members of Teambhp,My name is Anant raj from Trichirapalli, Tamilnadu. would like to share my experience with JEEP CLINIC Coimbatore. in 2012 bought a Toyota Land cruiser FJ60 with Toyota 2H (6 cylinder 4000 cc) engine coupled to ever famous Toyota H55, 5 speed gear box, 3 speed TC single lever four wheel drive and most important is a PTO driven Factory winch coupled to it. which i found from Teambhp classifieds so after checking upon the vehicle and some in depth search in internet found it worth for the price he demanded though on a high side and the vehicle needed extensive work to make it reliable and road worthy.
After paying for the truck checked in internet for someone who could do the restoration of the vehicle and came to know about JEEP Clinic and Jeep Gopal from Coimbatore, so the next day gave him a call and spoke to him and from the way he spoke to me gave me confidence and decided to give the vehicle to him for a complete overhaul. initially payed 50,000rs as a advance and Gopal told me that he has opened a second unit of Jeep Clinic in Hyderabad he will do the restoration in Hyderabad, beginning i was not comfortable with the idea but he convinced me saying that Toyota motors in Hyderabad is in good relationship with him and can get lot of help from them regarding this vehicle and there are lot of experts in Hyderabad which i myself aware of Hyderabad and its relationship with classics.
After getting the paper works completed vehicle was driven from Mumbai to Hyderabad to Gopal workshop and left it in his custody with the understanding he will complete the job in three months as agreed by him and from my side got lot of parts imported through my limited network from U.S and Australia to complete the task. frequently kept talking to Gopal regarding work in progress and some part no help and at some point Goapl told me that he is opening a showroom in Coimbatore and asked me for 1 Lakh rupee made the payment through online transfer for which i have all the particulars. after a long wait asked my friend to go over to the workshop to check on progress and to my surprise came to know that the vehicle is abandoned at a place and no work was carried on after the day it was handed over to Jeep Clinic Jeep Gopal. realized that there is something bad and going in the wrong direction. Started worrying me a lot but without any choice kept waiting patiently. Gopal kept giving lot of lame excuses and avoided answering my call. At this point saw the post in Teambhp from George Joseph regarding jeep clinic after reading the post wrote to him and spoke to him and many other Teambhp members and as per there advice decided to get the vehicle from them so left to Hyderabad to bring back the vehicle and things became worst they blackmailed me with the key and demanding 25 thousand rupee if not the vehicle will go missing and without knowing anyone in the area to help me out of the situation paid them whatever they demanded. Took the vehicle and found 3 battery, spare tyre all the tools and some spare parts where missing and all 4 tyres where flat and badly damaged so brought the vehicle on a self loading truck to trichy and started to restore my vehicle in my own place.
Dear Friend you can very well ask me why i never take this matter to police as i have all the particulars, I'm a common man for me my family and happiness is more valuable, i know what will be the outcome if i end up going for a legal action so decided to bury everything within myself and the guilty feeling you have whenever you realize someone cheated you and yet you are not able to retaliate kills me often, friends I'm not a coward but is just my circumstances never give me chance to fight against such social elements. There are lot of scams going around our country and it is innocent people who are often affected in all these scams, to everyone who is going through this post each and every word i have written here is true, total money lost to Gopal and his gang is 1,75,000 rs and time wasted was 8 months, the heart pain when you think someone made use of your trust on him and cheated your valuable money and time is priceless(dear friends i gave Gopal 100,000 rs 20 days before my marriage hmm with this money i would have bought something for my family).
Have been trying to become a member of Teambhp for more than 8 years but not yet lucky enough but i still believe the day will come and i would share my build with everyone and get their valuable comments and ideas, would be happy if senior BHPians like Arka, Fazal bai, Shubhendra ji, Behram Dhabhar sir, Sudarshan sir, Tejas and many more could guide me on my build will wait for the day. have given permission to Geje to post this on behalf of me in Teambhp.
With Great Regards to all Teambhpians,
r.l.rajanant."
Last edited by Geje : 11th October 2013 at 22:52.
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