shroom
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After 6 Months of trying to retrieve and locate my car I have managed to get it back from a dirty old farm near Little Totham. It’s a word of warning to anyone that thinks of using people like Leon Warren to do work on their car. These people can basically shaft you up the arse, steal half of your parts and then spit you out destroying your vehicle without actually having done anything wrong in the eyes of the law.
You can say to someone that you will do some work on their car etc. etc., they bring it to you. You then move "workshops" to which the owner has little idea of where it is, keeping slightly in contact with garbled messages which never answer the question asked, but divert towards something else. Ransom their last hopes of getting the car sorted with bribes of more money needed and parts have been an issue to fit. Later after you decide you can’t be arsed to do anything you see a nice lump of tin with lots of valuable anonymous parts on it which can easily be flogged off, the owner has no idea of what is going on as they can’t get a straight answer and can’t come down to see you as you have done a bunk. This is not actually theft as you have opened a verbal contract to do the work so the police are about as much use as a German dancing. It’s a civil case so you might as well piss in the wind in trying to locate your car and actually get it back. if you want to try and get justice with any of this it is an uphill struggle to actually prove any wrong doing (as you purchase most parts second hand of a forum and have no proof of purchase or that you gave them to them).
I seemed to be a lucky one as I managed to contact the new tenant in the unit, unlike a few other people cars which looked half fucked from his hands in the unit, they were going to be dragged out into the field as he has been up on rent for months and actualy fucked the owners subaru offering to "fix it". I tried to search for some of the many missing parts but trying to prove this block was mine and those cams were mine etc. was very hard, technically if the chap didn’t agree to it I could be seen as stealing from the unit and I would be in the wrong! . At least I found a duvet and a pair of kids trousers in the back the mind wonders wtf they are in there for.
It leaves you to understand why people like Ed, others are so valuable to this community as there are not many people with the knowledge to work on these cars and have the care for customer’s vehicles. All in all I have probably lost about £1000 pounds worth of bits which have been lifted but I suppose at least I managed to track it down and get it back before it was on the way to get weighed in. Seems like a similar story to so many others...
and great, lots of oil on the floor
You can say to someone that you will do some work on their car etc. etc., they bring it to you. You then move "workshops" to which the owner has little idea of where it is, keeping slightly in contact with garbled messages which never answer the question asked, but divert towards something else. Ransom their last hopes of getting the car sorted with bribes of more money needed and parts have been an issue to fit. Later after you decide you can’t be arsed to do anything you see a nice lump of tin with lots of valuable anonymous parts on it which can easily be flogged off, the owner has no idea of what is going on as they can’t get a straight answer and can’t come down to see you as you have done a bunk. This is not actually theft as you have opened a verbal contract to do the work so the police are about as much use as a German dancing. It’s a civil case so you might as well piss in the wind in trying to locate your car and actually get it back. if you want to try and get justice with any of this it is an uphill struggle to actually prove any wrong doing (as you purchase most parts second hand of a forum and have no proof of purchase or that you gave them to them).
I seemed to be a lucky one as I managed to contact the new tenant in the unit, unlike a few other people cars which looked half fucked from his hands in the unit, they were going to be dragged out into the field as he has been up on rent for months and actualy fucked the owners subaru offering to "fix it". I tried to search for some of the many missing parts but trying to prove this block was mine and those cams were mine etc. was very hard, technically if the chap didn’t agree to it I could be seen as stealing from the unit and I would be in the wrong! . At least I found a duvet and a pair of kids trousers in the back the mind wonders wtf they are in there for.
It leaves you to understand why people like Ed, others are so valuable to this community as there are not many people with the knowledge to work on these cars and have the care for customer’s vehicles. All in all I have probably lost about £1000 pounds worth of bits which have been lifted but I suppose at least I managed to track it down and get it back before it was on the way to get weighed in. Seems like a similar story to so many others...
and great, lots of oil on the floor
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