[Limitless]

Originally Posted by dlo

limitless, the thing you did wrong is more of an ethical and communication reasoning

1.) you overcharged for work whether or not you were willing to provide a satisfactory work evaluated by OP. OP has no fuckng clue about modding, yet you charged him 8 bills (black housing + switchbacks, hids and w.e) really? 8 bills? i got my blackhousing painted for 100 and g spec used to do it for 150...

He asked me a price and I gave him one, I wasn't really asking for business it was just how much I would charge if I were to do it. It took me a while to remove everything, bake open the headlight, strip the chrome off of the housing, paint it, put everything back together without knicking the paint when it's not really cured yet (didn't have enough time to let it cure :S), figure out how the leds were to be mounted on the shroud and wires and all etcetc.. Figuring out how to take apart the bumper and everything else because it's impossible to find 4g TL DIY's... I don't know just little bits and pieces. When I looked at the overall price it does seem high, but after considering the details I wasn't interested in spending so much time for less money so I simply stated the price. He said he would think about it at first and I didn't push him at all, even helped him out with random crap in the meanwhile.

2.) MISCOMMUNICATION; im not tryna pick a side, but it sounds like you got annoyed of OP and tried to sever ties... this lead to this thread, and ur friend eric FOR SURE abandon ship

Yes I was annoyed at the attitude I was given and how he was calling me out on things that make no sense. I would explain to him and he would be okay with it afterwards. I did block him on facebook, but this is AFTER everything was resolved... Minus the 4 clips that costs a few cents because I guess he just forgot to mention that to me. This is also a while after the work has been done and no problems arose. Yes I blocked him on facebook but he was still able to call or text me, and most of our conversations happened through text or calls anyways. I just blocked him on facebook because of the attitude I was given on that conversation where I snapped and just didnt' want to see it anymore. Had he texted or called I still would have replied, and I have every single one before and after that.
The AC thing happened and Eric dealt with him for a long time, he did not just ditch the second it happened.

What could you and OP have done to avoid this?
SIMPLE AS FUARKKK, communicate u motherfuckas, have proof of the work, if you feel uneasy of the project, explain to OP and try to get out of it.. my guy does all my modding and keep track of the progress by taking photos + telling me the risk and whether or not he would do it...

Lesson learned on this part. The end product turned out okay minus some mistakes on my end which ended up in having us redo the headlight. The only other things are just from the condition of the car that we received it in, which is hard to argue... And the AC which happened a few weeks later and was linked to LEDs somehow. I still don't think there was much risk in taking this project even after all of this. Most of it was from the headlights anyways, you can't really screw up a HID PnP install and switchbacks. :| Condensation was fixed, leds were fixed... end result was good but I guess it really did take too long to get there.


Almost forgot to say thanks for the opinion and post as well. Hoping everyone involved can learn something from this... definitely myself included