Hey,

Maybe some of you recall my rant about my band's van troubles. Well, we're in the middle of a dispute with my bank over the charge for the drive shaft repair.

(To get up to speed quickly: crooked garage quoted us $309 for drive shaft repair, the cost ended up being $523. Garage said van could be picked up that day, so i gave credit card number over phone to pay bill, so van could be picked up after work, as none of us were available during their business hours. When Reno goes to pick up van, van is not outside. I walk over to garage the next morning to discover that when they took the van out to test drive it they noticed leaking tranny fluid, and only then noticed the tranny was cracked. $900 quote to replace with used tranny. We decide "that's fucked, had we known the total would be $1400, we'd have just said fuck it and gotten a new van" and take the van to another garage for a second opinion, as Garage A has enough of our money. Garage B looks at van and says, "yeah, it's more like $1200-$1500 for the tranny, and who put in the new drive shaft? Yeah, there's no way they wouldn't have noticed the tranny being cracked before fixing the drive shaft. That's really shady.")

So, our plan is this currently:

-Pursue dispute with the charge on my card, so it's on record with both banks (mine and Garage A's) that service was faulty.
-Assemble paperwork and go to Garage A with intention to work out a compromise due to dissatisfaction with service (a refund would be nice, or a compromise to have the tranny replaced for cheap), with willingness to go to Better Business Bureau and slime Garage A's name all over town if he tells us to fuck off.

Now, i personally have no illusions regarding how this will turn out--legally, i'm sure that since he performed a service and we paid for it, the rest os our word against his and we likely have little to stand on. My question for the forum folk here: Any suggestions regarding how we can bolster our case? Currently, we're attempting to get Garage B to make a written statement confirming his professional opinion that the tranny should have been noticed, and we will be taking photos of the tranny fluid leaking out of the van like a seive to illustrate how obvious this should have been. Mr. Yale Delay seems to believe that Wisconsin has some pretty strict "Lemon Laws" that protect consumers against this sort of chicanery--anyone have any knowledge of this?

Basically, our opinion is that had we known we'd be looking at nearly $2K in van repairs, we would have just gotten a new van, but Garage A possibly knew that and thus made an attempt to siphon the money out of us incrementally, thinking that once we had $500 invested, we'd just go the rest of the distance. Any and all advice is welcomed. If you think we're just fucked, please refrain, as i'm pretty sure of that myself but would like some positive reinforcement.

You could probably stick it to them, if you hired a good lawyer, but then the whole point is moot(?) if you're then out more money for having done that...

UPDATE: I am currently playing phone tag with Garage B they will do a certified letter stating that there was shady business practices at play...

PS: if you are in Milwaukee and need a great mechanic message me, he has done work for my car and works cheep and has done a great job...

Yo Yale! Docter Aukwerd!

FUCK YOU dudes.

You think wrenchin is easy huh. You think that you know shit about cars. YOU DONT EVEN KNOW THE NAME OF YOUR VAN, BRO!!! You know what maybe if you washed the mother fucker once in a while we would have been able to see that the trans case had a friggin crack in it, you fucks. How the fuck do you break a steering column, drive shaft AND crack a friggin trans case on a van? Did one of you guys go muddin in that piece of shit or somethin. Sure looks like it from underneath dude. I bet one of you little bitches likes to dress up like Mr. T at night and drive that thing around like he is in the motherfuckin A-Team ROFL DUDE. Yeah bro, we are the ones to blame that we didn't know what a piece of shit van you got. FUCK YOU, bro. FUCK YOU. I would like one of you guys to come back here and tell me that we are tryin to fuck you over by chargin you for one thing and then tellin you that somethin else is broke to my face. I'll jam my fuckin torque wrench so far in to your ass that you'll be able to taste how many foot pounds it's set too.

Oh and get a life dudes!! I heard your shit fuckin' noise you call music on a CD that you left in the stereo. Hahahaha you guys sound like a bunch of fuckin pussies. You guys could never even open for a band like Floyd or BOC so just give up and get a life dudes.

howz about a fight to the death between Joe's East Side and The Shady Landlord?

Howz about you mind your own fuckin business bitch

sorry... sorry... i wasn't trying to start anything... i was just curious to see you two fight to the death, that's all.

Joe's East Side wrote:Yo Yale! Docter Aukwerd!

FUCK YOU dudes.

You think wrenchin is easy huh. You think that you know shit about cars. YOU DONT EVEN KNOW THE NAME OF YOUR VAN, BRO!!! You know what maybe if you washed the mother fucker once in a while we would have been able to see that the trans case had a friggin crack in it, you fucks. How the fuck do you break a steering column, drive shaft AND crack a friggin trans case on a van? Did one of you guys go muddin in that piece

of shit or somethin. Sure looks like it from underneath dude. I bet one of you little bitches likes to dress up like Mr. T at night and drive that thing around like he is in the motherfuckin A-Team ROFL DUDE.

Yeah bro, we are the ones to blame that we didn't know what a piece of shit van you got. FUCK YOU, bro. FUCK YOU. I would like one of you guys to come back here and tell me that we are tryin to fuck you over by chargin you for one thing and then tellin you that somethin else is broke to my face. I'll jam my fuckin torque wrench so far in to your ass that you'll be able to taste how many foot pounds it's set too.

Oh and get a life dudes!! I heard your shit fuckin' noise you call music on a CD that you left in the stereo. Hahahaha you guys sound like a bunch of fuckin pussies. You guys could never even open for a band like Floyd or BOC so just give up and get a life dudes.

while this is really funny, you might want to get the name of your "garage" right... just saying... PS everyone knows the wizzard dresses up like Mr T

yaledelay wrote:while this is really funny, you might want to get the name of your "garage" right... just saying... PS everyone knows the wizzard dresses up like Mr T

Bro-

You said this in another post:

yaledelay wrote:PPS: if you live in Milwaukee do not gotto Joes East Side...

I remember wrenchin on your van before but I don't remember what was wrong with the piece of shit when I worked on it. You sayin that another garage told you that the trans case was cracked? Maybe thats why we didn't know that it was cracked cause it wasn't cracked when we were wrenchin on the bitch.

P.S. I should still kick your pussy ass for talkin shit about my garage no matter why you said shit about it. Your face has an appointment with my knee bone now, bro. Watch your back.

This is one of those rare occasions when a "lol" is in order.

My favorite part is where apparently we can afford a van with a CD player!