[BEWARE] Carolina Auto Masters(Jeff Creech)

[phillipthe1st]

This story is making its way around forums as quickly as possible so I dont know if it has been posted on here. Shop mechanic drove customer's car after work is done and for days before customer was supposed to pick it up. Just read the story and see pics below for instant anger toward shop.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?t=1924211

 

[DsBetterHalf]

Wow - There wouldn't have been any questions, on this one, I would have gone completely ballistic and killed the guy who drove the car, as well as the owner. Mass bloodshed would have occurred. And in light of the event, I could quite possibly have gotten away with an insanity plea. But still - holy shit.

 

[Doward]

DEATH

 

[csnow]

Wow, speechless.....

 

[MKIIINA]

cliffs if you could. keep getting a DB error from the vette forums (probibly from the increased traffic perhaps) thats really shitty of the SO and he deserves to be punished to the full extent.

edit: works now. wow theres some serious damage there... dont know how any one could claim it was a "minor fender bender"

 

[DreamerTheresa]

Yeah. Their server's having a hard time with the influx of other car people going "OMGWTF?!"


Cliffs: Guy has Vette. Takes Vette to shop for upgrades. Receives call from shop owner saying "one of my techs had a fender bender in your car." This is days after the work was completed.

Vette is TOTALED. Shop owner let tech take car home to "enjoy the work he put into it." Totaled car on the way to TAKING HIS DAUGHTER TO SCHOOL.

 

[MassSupra89]

That sucks.
Same thing happened to my mother in the early 70's with her brand new Datsun. The mechanic crashed it into a brick wall and died.

 

[MKIIINA]

ok guys if you want the short version (after going though the 14 pages) read the first page and the last page (last page is where jeff aka milkman posts his side)

guy sounds like a douche who got caught with finally. he made no concessions in the end and honestly i would never take my car back to a shop to have it "repaired" with junked parts, give him the old car to part out and make money off of, or do any further work on a new car.

 

[MassSupra89]

Did anyone else notice the woman's user name? "FstPoon" lol.

 

[tissimo]

that blows

 

[BlackMKIII]

Slow, painful death. Period.

 

[JMDigital]

I read all 14 pages.. whew took a while. finally at the end the shop owner did post. here it is. I am on the fence - it sounds like he did offer to fix the problem?? this is just based on the posts so who knows whats true and not true... but here it is...

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I really don't know where to begin on this, I did offer to make everything right, and my offer was unacceptable to her.

This is the greatest nightmare of everyone involved, the shop owner, the car owner, everyone. My mailbox is full of hate mail from CF members, and I understand that. My side of the story is that I tried to make everything right, and Melissa chose to go through her insurance company and take me out of the picture of being a part of the solution.

My offer to Melissa, which was declined, was that she take the approximately $40k settlement for the vehicle from my insurance company, and release the vehicle to me so that I could remove the modifications to the car and those that were salvagable could be reinstalled by us on another car, those that were not I could repair or replace to as new condition. If she had cooperated this could have all had a better ending.

Instead she demanded that she file with her insurance company (I've never heard how much they offered) and that NO parts be reused, and that she choose another shop to do all the work and some of the parts (like the sound system for example) be upgraded at the same time. Carolina Auto Masters would pay for all parts and labor. I'm just not going to pay another shop to do the work on the car, and provide all new parts when the original car had much that was reusable.

When we were in constant contact in December, Melissa assured me that her insurance company had not evaluated the car, while in fact, she had already released the car to them and it had been moved somewhere else. I have not spoken with Melissa since that time. I would have to assume that the car has long since been sold as salvage and the reusable parts gone with it.

If the car is still impounded somewhere, I'd still be more than happy to take the parts off it, transfer those to a car that Melissa provides (from the settlement from her insurance company) that are in reuseable condition, repair or replace those that are not and make everything right. But Melissa chose another route, and that was her choice. I'd hoped her insurance company would settle for enough money for her build the car back just like it was. I assume that didn't happen, but have no way to know. Melissa has not contacted me since saying she would let me know when her insurance company got in touch with her, so I've been given no chances since my last offer to do anything more for her.

From the mail I've recieved she has gotten way more than the value of the vehicle and modifications out of CAM already via lost business. And that total will continue to grow, and her nightmare and my nightmare will continue with neither of us finding a way to wake up and it all just be a bad dream.

I've been sick about what happened, I hate that it happened, and I really hoped that my offer to make everything right had been accepted by Melissa.

I do wish her the best of luck dealing with her insurance company,
-jeff

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The thread got locked soon after so I guess it will be a mystery from now on..

 

[phillipthe1st]

this guy has a history of screwing ppl over...a lot of ppl wonder how he is still in business but still ppl get their cars worked on there and filling his pockets.

The point is, doing something like that is more than enough reason to beat the guy within an inch of his life. Someone on the local forum I am on (here in NC) stated they would sue the guy till he was homeless.

 

[MassSupra89]

it sounds like he did offer to fix the problem?? this is just based on the posts so who knows whats true and not true... but here it is...

He did try to fix it, and cover his ass as best he could without losing all his money to pay for everything the customer lost.

But the fact that he gave permission for a technician to take a customers car for personal use is unnacceptable. There is no proper way to make up for that really. After a shop did that to my car I would NEVER take my car back. And he expected her to buy a new car and have THEM do the work on that one too? ridiculous. I would be taking it to a different shop, and the accused would be paying for everything.

 

[tlo86]

at least it wasnt a chop shop to boot!