mazgtr

for my own curiosity....why was it overheating? in the 1st place
they only mess up a water seal AFTER a car has overheated badly
did ya replace the radiator?
hoses?
thermostat?
water pump? ...already

kabooski

He is not going to make a single trip just to pick up your car
Once ash's FD issues are resolved

He is going to haul that car up to Jax
At which time he can bring your car down

This kills 2 birds with one stone

unfortunately ash's car is taking longer cause new issues keep poping up
a apex seal took out his stock twins
Jose did not have some spares laying around

Just to make ash happy and get his car back
while the other is worked one
Jose took out his personal cars twins to put on ahs's FD
Now it has a bad injector and regulator

and that thing needs a better wiring harness big time
the wires are almost coming of some of the plugs

Jose has to source all those things himself
which is a pain... cause he is not on the internet like we are
and can easily put a "wanted to buy" thread on this site
or shop on ebay............

Str8Down

While I understand that it would be easier to kill 2 birds with one stone, I already PAID HIM. And now I have been without a car for over a month. Should I feel bad for Jose that he has to make a special trip for my car? I already paid him, and my car has more things wrong with it now than it did when I took it to him. That is not good customer service to make someone go without a car for over a month when you already took their money.

Mazgtr, I don't know why it ate the water seal, i wasn't overheating at all, but I bought the car with 27k miles on it, so I don't know if it could have overheated prior to that. It ran just fine and never broke 87 degrees.


PS. HE NO SHOWED AGAIN TODAY AND DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO CALL ME.

sik7ven

strange situation goin on with fuego cause ive heard alot of good stuff, never negatives. kilo is expensive but damn it he's ****** good. His son used to ride the school bus with me, he's also a rotor head. If fuego already messed with ur car, let him finish it, u wont be dissapointed in the long run. Patience my friend, patience

Str8Down

No showed on Mon with a phone call to Ashe (none to me) with some excuse saying he would be here Tuesday at noon. Ashe waited around all day, and again, no show, no call. Haven't heard from him since.

Str8Down

Finally sent someone to pick up my car on thursday night, with no phone call whatsoever. Only way I even knew someone was picking up my car, was Ashe (the other guy in this thread from Jax having his cars worked on) called me at around 9:30pm to let me know that the guy was dropping off his car and would PROBABLY be picking mine up in about an hour. I can't help but wonder what if I wasn't home. Anyway, he showed up at around 11pm to pick up my car. I have not heard word one since then. No idea if even my car made it there ok. Guess time will tell.

kabooski

dude you getting annoying now
I've tried to help you out more then you know


I seen you car now
and heard it

you exaggerated

It purrs like a kitten

your turbos are shot!
it will not boost <---- Jose's fault right?
Is installing a good set now

Some idiot installed a coolent pipe wrong (not a hose a Pipe) Fuego's fault right?
fixed that...now the temps stay good

what do you want to know?
Once your car is running tip top (I'll be taking a vid)
which is going to reguire driving it on the street for a nice long drive
Instead of just letting the car idle in the shop before.......

Then you can come inspect your car
and be done with it for good


Ray printed out this whole thread early last week
for Jose....So he knows the situation

Trust me if Jose was a scammer
he would of told you to F off a long time ago

Instead he works with customers budgets and tries to save them money
which in some cases comes back to bite him


I've already told him
you should do like Petitt does
make customers pay for a mazda reman
or make customers buy brand new stock turbos
new housings and rotors..etc

Str8Down

Turbos are shot??????????????? Are you insane???? He said the same thing to Ashe who he couldn't make his car work. Those turbos were PERFECT before he rebuilt it!!! And I mean PERFECT, I saw them myself.

That car was awsome before it went to Fuego. Ask your Orlando friends who went to the Steve Kan tuning session. That was one of the cleanest, best kept, best running 3rd Gens in FL.


Installed a coolent pipe wrong??? He is the one that did it. It didn't have overheating problems before this.

And if you think it purrs like a kitten, you know nothing about 3rd gens. Go to pettit and see what a REAL 3rd gen sounds and runs like, not some budget crap.

And again, the turbos are perfect, if there is ANYTHING wrong with them, it is of his doing. Jesus, he sold the same story to ashe.

And what are you getting annoyed about? About the truth? All I have done is poisted the truth here. Do you think it is ok that he doesn't EVER call me? Do you think it is ok that he sent someone to my house to get my car without me even knowing he was coming? At freaking 11pm nontheless? What if I wasn't home for god sakes? He sent someone from Orlando to get my car and didn't even tell me!!!! Tell me again about this great customer service?

FutureMan

wooo lawd

kabooski

Yea Yea EVERY thing was mint eh? can you say OWNED

Str8Down

That's right, and every one of those problems was resolved. Look at the dates.

And I see that you sidestep every one of my questions about his lack of customer service. Why is that? Could it be because the customer service SUCKS? Just give me ANY explaination for making me go over a month with a rental car? Give me SOME explaination for him not having called me, ever? Please tell me why he sent someone to my house at 11pm to get my car WITHOUT EVEN TELLING ME.

FD Rey

I saw your turbos today and one of the them was pretty bad. So bad the wheel would barely spin and the turbine wheel was chopped to all hell. Jose told me he never rebuilt your turbos so I don't know where you got that piece of information from. He also mentioned the fact that when he opened up your motor it looked like a mess as if it was put together in a hurry and sloppy to sell the car. Although the car may only have 65k miles or whatever doesn't mean it's perfect. Honestly it looks just about as clean as my 120k mile Touring I just bought (minus your carbonfiber fender and Altezza tail lights).

FD Rey

And to add one more thing since you keep going back to the fact that your car has been out of commission for over a month. Why didn't you take matters in your own hands and drive/tow the car back to him immediately after the problems came up? You can't blame Jose for you living in Jax and not willing to bring the car down.

kabooski

I'm not going to discuss his cutomer service skills
that area is between you and him....

I'm only going into your BS lies/deception
That I have exposed with your own words

You never have even met Jose in person
you had someone tow the car to his shop and that was that

did he fix the engine? = YES
Now you want to blame him for bad turbos that the blown engine took out
(your own words car had problem building boost" ran rich back fires etc
that was AFTER Steve Kan tune (which you lied about your car always running flawless before Jose)

You later called him
telling him your car was overheating

did the "work" include fixing a overheating issue? ...NO
(that you clearly you have had in the past and plain LIED about)


again it was to rebuild a "engine"
He did not drive your car on the road for a extended time
with A/C etc.
He let the car idle
and in that time it did not overheat

If it did overheat he would of informed you
and corrected that issue...

You blame him for your car being loud
another lie I caught you on

what? you want him to
pay for a new exhaust? You stated with your on WORDS
how you found your exhaust system "too loud" for your liking

Instead of saying
"well I'm happy to report he finally came thru and picked up my car
(at his cost mind you and since you stated we'll see if it happens)
No you bitch about that too and spin it in a negative way

It is one thing to complain about his time management or customer service skills
and another to diss a shop/mechanic about work
issues that where not even part of the original work contracted.
Even to the extent that you would LIE to everyone reading this thread
for what purpose?
I can only imagine to cause
harm to a shop's reputation for pure spite or al tier motives

AC LINKS

The ****** novela.... I tune in every day

mazgtr

jeeez I knew there is no way a rotary just breaks a water seal for no reason
it had to have overheated. Which can be very bad for the engine,
depending on how hot
it got.

Str8Down

Say what you want, I can provide you with people who rode in my car the day before the coolant seal went, it boosted perfect. How did the turbos just "go bad". And yes it has always been a little loud for my liking, but after he removed the airpump and emmissions WHICH I DID NOT ASK HIM TO DO, it now is much louder and the exhaust stinks like hell. Also, what about my AC? It worked great too, now it doesn't. No I am not going to pay to ship it back to him over and over because he screwed something up again and again. I want future customers to know what to expect from him. Ash had the same issues, jus isn't posting here, I can only assume because he doesn't want Jose to hold it against him and take forever to fix his car. I assume that is what he is doing to me since I have not heard word one from him. But that is just an assumption, since I have nothing to go on because he won't call me.


By the way, I NEVER said my car had problems building boost. That is why i can't beleive the turbos are bad. And why would they magically go bad?

kabooski

I passed by there during my lunch hour
saw the turbo(s) my self

one of the turbine blades is chewed up
I will post pics soon
since I didn't have a digi cam today

The thing that irritates me
is you hiding a bunch of facts about your cars history
Stuff a mechanic needs to know when taking on a job
especially on a new customer/car.

A) your engine had been rebuilt before
broke a apex seal
B) That New engine rebuild started to overheat
Why?
maybe a pinched water seal during the rebuild?
maybe bad water pump?
How long/How many times did it over heat for?





I can assure you
(its not like Jose does alot of work for me and I'm kissing his ***)
I do, for the most part my own engines and fabrication
and rent a shop space to work on my cars

He is not making stuff up with your car
just so he can sqeeze more money out you dude
thats is not the way Jose operates
anybody that knows him knows that

Str8Down

I am not trying to say that he operates like that. Look how long agio my car overheated, look at those posts, that was fixed a LONG time ago. That has NOTHING to do with him giving me my car back not boosting, overheating AND losing coolant, AC not working and all emmissions missing. Then, I really might be understanding if he would EVER call me and give me status.

Tell me though, what if you had him rebuild your engine and it came back not boosting (when, no matter what you say, it boosted perfect before) overheating, the AC no longer working, and parts of the car that YOU consider essential, missing? How would you feel? Now you had to rent a car for a MONTH!!!!! After you already paid him cash and it took him a month to "fix" it in the first place?

You asked why I didn't have it shipped AGAIN to him? Because it was expensive the firast time, and this time is his fasuklt. Besides that, it's not like he said 'It will be a month before I can get it from you" he said almost every 3 days that he was coming tomorrow. And strung me along for a month.

Oh and one thing I forgot to mention here. When he rebuilt it and I called him 400 times to get him to talk to me, he told me that he has it back together and it's overheating. 3 days later he said he found the problem, it had a sticking side seal. So yes, the reason it is overheating again, is his doing. He put the side seals in. you said a coolant p[ipe was on wrong, he had to take that off to rebuild it. Who do you think put the coolant pipe on wrong?

kabooski

actually about that
I asked him about that today while I was there
it was a cracked hose not a "pipe" my bad
His helper that does not speak english told me about it 1st in spanish
and I mis translated it . A sticking side seal has no effect on cooling it affects compression
and oil blowby

Hey I understand 100% how frustrating it can be
when something takes a long time to get completed or a lack of communication

Why don't you call him?
see what he found out with your car and any stuff that needs to be done

Str8Down

Again, just posting what he said. Now that makes me more worred about his mechanical abilities, because he said that is what was making his rebuild overheat. And I tend to believe you more so than him after all the lies I have heard.

I will call him, just to report back here that I did so. But I promise, he won't answer the phone (which I understand if he is busy, so i leave a message) and he won't call me back, ever.

FD Rey

Did you ever look at your turbos? I did, and they were in such bad shape made me wish I had my camera with me so I could take pics. The wheel was chopped up as if you blew an apex seal through it. I'm not saying you did that, but the turbos were toast! Also you keep saying that the overheating issues were addressed before you took it to Jose. My question is this.... Didn't you take your car to Jose because it was overheating to begin with? You're contradicting yourself man. You didn't take your car to Jose because there was in "perfect condition". Then you wouldn't have to ship your car half way down the state for nothing. Your car had motor issues which you couldn't figure out how to fix.

Str8Down

If the turbos are that bad, why did they boost so well BEFORE it went to Jose? Maybe the turbos you are looking at, that he is showing you aren't the turbos that were on the car when I brought it to him. And if they are, why will it not boost at all now? It boosted just fine before, even if the blades were chewed up, now, nothing at all.

And no, it overheated when it ate a water seal and drank all the coolant. Now why that is, there could be many explainations such as it having overheated a long time ago or anything else, but the fact is, it was not overheating ANYTIME in the past year or two. So no, I didn't take it to Jose for overheating, I took it to Jose for a blown coolant seal, which caused it to overheat.

You all do realize that in a rebuild the only part of the coling system he DOESN'T touch is the radiator. Which is a Koyo and HE tested for blockage and said was fine. So ANY other reason for overheating, is do to something he did, he REBUILT the engine!!

FD Rey

Are you accusing Jose of switching your good turbos for bad ones? Did you ever think that maybe your car was having boost issues because of the bad turbos? You know they DO go bad?! Why are you going around the fact that you posted a thread asking why you were having such problems?! Maybe your turbos were boosting "fine" when you brought it to him and then again maybe they did not. Turbos go bad, Jose did NOT switch them out, that's something he'd never do.

Your entire paragraph contradicts what you have been saying all along. "My car ran perfect before, car never had over heating problems, car was mint." Sounds to me that you really don't care much for that mint car of yours if you let the car overheat soooooo bad that it "drank all the coolant" and "blew the water seal."

Overheating can also be caused by many things, such as a bubble in your system. It could run fine for a sec, and then cause the temps to go up. Things like that you diagnose when you take it for a nice drive in the city, not by letting the car idle for a bit.

Listen, I am not trying to say Jose is perfect, and I'm not saying you're lying about your car. I guess I'm playing a bit of the Devil's advocate so people can see both sides. Jose has been working on your car pretty much since it got there. He's gonna figure it all out and he will take care of whatever mistake he may have commited.

Str8Down

I am not accusing anyone of anything, I am saying it's not out of the realm of possibility, being that Jose has lied to me now at least 10 times. I don't know anything about him, never even met him, only thing I know is that he did a crappy job on my car the first tme and has lied to me numerous times, so what would you think?

That paragraph does not contradict itself. The car ran great up until it ate a coolant seal. Period.
Most cars run great until they have a problem.

And on the Turbos, why do you all keep posting that i had problems with them before this? I never said that, and it always boosted perfect. So why should I beleive that my turbos are bad and the balde is chewed up? How did they boost so well before this if the blade was chewed up? I could understand if I had brought it to Jose with a blown Apex seal, as that can chew up the blade, but that is not the case.