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Originally Posted by GTO However, I will reserve my judgement on your case until both sides of the story are told. |
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Originally Posted by memo45_m Pls get to know both sides of the story before you come up with conclusions and the tuner that is being spoken abt here does claim responsiablity for the mods he has put in to this car and I also do know that to the best of my knowledge. |
Rush, memo, if this battle doesn't turn out to be a personal war I don't mind everyone listening to the other end of the story as well.
Mohnish, I am not aware what you have heard or from whom. Last I know my tuner "denied" the fact that it was his unprofessionalism that lead to most of the issues on my car. I think if my words were taken seriously when I brought up these issues I would have suffered a far lesser damage (monetarily & emotionally) than I have now. When I brought up some of these serious issues just before they went out of hand, the reply I was given was "So? What should I do if your car is not working properly? Go get it rectified from whomever you want or do it yourself if you know what is wrong." That attitude IMO is totally unacceptable, I have paid my hard earned (and my dad's to some extent) money in getting the work done. I think it was that day that I decided to call it quits with this particular tuner. My opinions were discarded, even to the extent that people laughed off my sincere feedback saying "I know nothing" compared to their knowledge. End result, I was right all the while. Classic example of over-confidence overriding the feedback of the lesser knowledgeable person.
Infact, I too would love to hear the other end of the story and clear out a lot of misconceptions that are being spread about me, my love for my car & some habits of mine which are most often than not blown out of proportion to suit others descriptions, whims & fancies. Makes for a good story telling.
Guys, I thank you all for your support. Needless to say, this will not be the end of my modding spree. Though I will from now on be careful about what I intend to do with my car. And do it right, the way I want to rather the way someone thinks you should.
I do not think it would right to name the people involved with this project (you can PM for the names if you are really interested). The last thing I want this thread is to turn in a personal war, each trying to prove the other wrong. Also, I don't expect you guys to believe my end of the story at all since my credibility is at stake when compared to that of my tuner. Many have told me openly that "We don't believe your end of the story". I am quite fine with that. Like they say "One will realize the pain only after burning their own hands".
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Originally Posted by Shan2nu I never leave my car at a garage during service. I sit there and make sure i see all the repairs and replacements being done on the car. |
Completely agree with you Shan. I have always followed this trend all my life till I met this person whom I trusted so much that I considered him to be my idol. Infact, I looked upto him as my mentor, who would help me learn a lot of things. I trusted him blindly (after quite a long stint with him being just friends). If I look back at it now, I think anyone in my place would have done the same. There are still a lot of people on this very forum whom I know will still have blind faith on that person and will continue to do so.
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Anyway, now that your car is back to stock, you can start all over again, maybe limit yourself to stage 1 mods, concentrate more on the handling package and make sure u check everything before your car leaves the garage.
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I do not want to prove anyone wrong or take revenge against the person by trying to mod my car again or showing the way it should have been done. What I want to do is to correct my mistakes, and mod to satisfy myself. To please my own hunger for more power. The way I want to. Good thing I learnt from this fiasco is to not to hurry into things. Or get carried away by the temptations. I will henceforth, check every work carried out on my car personally and never leave it unattended.
My sincere suggestion for all you guys out there is that "If your mech says he is not comfortable with you hanging around while he is working on your car immediately walk out of that place". And never ever fall for the line " Don't worry I'll handle it".
Also, this thread is not to deter you lot from modding your cars or bikes. This is to educate you all to do your homework, know what you want, how much you are willing to spend on it, what kind of reliability you expect, ask a few knowledgeable people and reconfirm your doubts.
I have often come across this statement that "Tuners hate a customer who has been to almost all the tuners to get work done on his car or bike". I have often witnessed people mocking such people. Truth be told, I don't see anything wrong. Mostly, they too might have faced such issues that I have and gone to someone to correct them like I have.