Off road industry drama

Truck mod financing isn't really a thing up here in Canada (credit card use would be the closest I guess), at least were I'm at. Any truck repair place I've worked at nothing leaves the building unless its paid for.

I forget a lot of place use affirm or similar. Maybe SVC has in house credit, I'm not sure. By makes sense, I mean why the truck left without the bill being paid in full.
 
DialedShockPrep said:
Yeah you’re wrong here. It goes so much deeper than taking deposits and waiting on parts to come in.
A customer of mine now had previously taken Tonelli his Brand new King 3.5” bypasses, 3.0” IBP coilovers, and brand new 2.0 bump stops (along with Kibbetech trailing arms, uppers, lowers, and whatever else for his Ram TRX.) All of that for a color change to orange anodize and black bodies + rebuild on the coilovers since they were used. 5 months goes by and Nick is giving this dude the run around. He finally gets SOME of his parts back and brings them to us to actually do the job.
Nick had previously clamped this guys race finned resi in a serated jaw vice, started to disassemble the shocks, and gave up. The customer is now missing his brand new 3.5” bypasses and Kibbetech lower arms.
To top it off, another long time friend of mine reached out 5 months ago about converting some 3.5” race shocks to remote resi.. I’m sure you see where I’m going with this. The icing on top of all this is that he paid Nick $1,500 for the shocks but never got them.
So in summary, Nick took a guys shocks in for work, sold the same pair of shocks to at least two people, and damaged this guys parts + lost his lower arms. The story with the arms? Nick claimed he was scanning Kibbe’s lower arms and was going to make his own that were better.

I’m sorry but what goes around comes around. Nick has the potential to be a great businessman with the connections and name he had built in this industry but instead he chose to throw it all in the dumpster and light a match. It’s sad and pathetic he’s blatantly taking people’s money with zero intentions of coming through with parts.
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I'm not sure how this guy is still in business. Anybody remember the Tacoma abortion that was brought to me years ago with the high-quality Tonelli fab work? Tonelli should have said "hey, I fucked up, let me pay for the rebuild", but instead he was a real piece of shit about it and blamed me for exposing his work.

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BlackJacket705 said:
Ok, that makes sense.
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I don’t know if it’s financed, I’m just making a bad joke about not just paying for your build

I can’t imagine why a shop would let a truck roll out the door if they owed money. The work is done, pay up. Unless they gave him like net 30 or 60 terms but I can’t see how that would be a thing either
 
Mullen said:
I'm not sure how this guy is still in business. Anybody remember the Tacoma abortion that was brought to me years ago with the high-quality Tonelli fab work? Tonelli should have said "hey, I fucked up, let me pay for the rebuild", but instead he was a real piece of shit about it and blamed me for exposing his work.

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Literally just about zero effort to give a fuck about what you’re doing is indicated by those pictures.
 
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