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Originally Posted by Iceman-19
I am willing to bet Limitless never told OP that he has no experience with doing Acuras, and only basic shit on his own car. He probably said something along the lines of "Oh yeah thats no problem". Leading OP to believe Limitless knew what he was doing, and he has admitted he doesnt. Lying to make money and then doing a shody job is scamming as far as I can tell. OP clearly seemed FOBish, and I bet they recognized that and took advantage of the situation.
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I do not have experience working on Acuras, but I do have a bit more experience than working on just my own car (just the car's I've had that I've worked on includes civics, integras, my Z of course). I've worked on my friend's cars too which I don't want to bother listing out. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying I'm a professional by any means, I'm just saying I do have a little bit more than just experience from working on my own one car as you may have put it. I've said this in the past few pages a few times but I'll say it again,
I have told OP that I have only worked on my own headlight for my own car. Yes I did say that I can do the job, and I have with his headlight. I did not act like I was incredibly professional, when he asked me I thought about it for a little bit before saying I can take it, and if you really did want to pay close attention you could very plainly see I was not bragging about my 'skill'. The only mistake I made was fucking up a bit on the headlight, but I fixed it. It just took us an extra few days and I have apologized countless times to OP about that. I admit my mistake, but I don't think that calls for calling me a scammer.
And actually, he messaged me on facebook once and talked to me about cars, not about his own headlight or work. I helped him a lot on his random car stuff (a job wasn't even mentioned at this point), and then he said he really wanted to take a look at my headlight. I was doing my headlight along with Eric's at this time and they were apart, so I invited him over to my house to take a look. He came over and talked to us for a while about it, which is where the job came up. I didn't really realize how fob he was, as you may have put it. In person, his grammar is actually pretty good.
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Originally Posted by Mr.Jay
After reading the whole thread I agree rs is being a bit harsh on limitless
I will say though if you aren't prepared to give 3x the customer service don't charge 3x the price. People tend to feel entitled when they shell out a pretty coin.
Hell if I paid 800 for what you did I would be just as choked. I also don't see they need to have two people working the car just seems like charge 2x for labour unless you advised him that he was paying for two guys to work on the car especially since its this Eric who the op seems most pissed at.
Overall im fine if you want to make some cash just dont go saying you were trying to be nice charging 800.
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I can see where you're coming from. At the time I did feel like I needed two people to deal with a headlight job because of the amount of stress that came with the job, I would never want to handle that amount of stress alone (even with my own headlight). HIDs and everything could have been done solo, but I also did not know how to wire anything. Eric knew how to wire, and even then it took him quite a while to figure out what to wire the relays onto to make the leds turn off during DRL's and on with everything else. Also had to find a specific resistor and wire it onto the switchbacks to prevent hyperflashing. As simple as it may sound now, I have no previous experience with wiring and even if it was a simple splice and solder, I would never feel comfortable doing it for someone else. Eric has also had way more experience than me on doing headlights. Without him, what OP wanted couldn't have been done.
Even with 2 people though it took over well over 7 hours to do everything, not including fuck ups. The wiring diagram was a bit confusing for him to read and took a while, prep for the headlight took a while. This isn't including all of the extra time done researching and talking with the OP about what he wanted and how things were to be done. You also cannot forget that there are parts that we have to buy as well, though that's not a huge chunk out of the money it is still a bit (HID kit, LEDs, clear lens, paint, switchback, resistors). Looking back at our conversation on facebook it was actually around $780 for everything.
It's still on his first post and maybe some of you guys have missed it, but that '$1100', $350 of it was well afterwards and it was to paint his front grill and rear trunk trim, nothing to do with his headlights or anything. The bodyshop charged $350, OP went through me and I decided to help him out. I told him the price, he dropped the car off at my house and left it there and I even drove 3 trips to downtown alone so the shop could get a colormatch on his car, then take off the parts and drop them off at the shop, then pick the parts back up. I made zero profit out of this, and this is where I was saying I was helping him out, not on what we charged him for because really... how could you say that you're helping someone out if you charge them money for it