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Ah... Also like Meme, I didn't want to post anything about my poor experience at VIP Autobody - thinking it was just a one-off experience but clearly I was wrong.
Preface: take my experience for what you will. I am not pointing fingers, this is MY experience as I experienced it. I won't be going back.
I dropped my 964 there also on the recommendation of RS members to have a new rear bumper centre section installed and painted and the rear bumper painted.
Was quoted $800 - seems high but hey, give a fellow RS member some business? Continually told how their foreman does a lot of fibreglass work, car will be taken care of, fellow RS member, etcetc.
I made a note of my km's upon drop-off and the foreman noted that down, and as I found out, passed that info to Talah later.
While they had the car, I was asked repeatedly the same questions as Meme; if he could bring it to the RS meet, that he had "no space in the shop" one Friday night and was going to park it at his Richmond warehouse. He griped and asked why I noted the kms down. I knew where he was going with it and kindly told him not to drive the car.
When I went to pick up my car, first thing I noticed was the FG piece fit horrendously. Not the shop's fault. However, they didn't tell me the part fit terrible. Presumably hoping I'd not notice and walk out. As the 964 rear bumper is in sections, they painted the whole bumper as one piece so there was grey primer still visible in between each piece. Garbage.
I pointed my disappointment to them and to their credit, Talah accepted the fact that I wasn't happy and would make it right. We ended up deciding to go reuse the old centre section and I was (un)pleasantly surprised to find a equally larger bill of $1000 that was unannounced to me until the day before I was to pick the car up.
Once again, work wasn't great with orange peel everywhere. Talah wetsanded and polished it out but kept mentioning how he was going the extra mile for me which irked the fuck out of me. Quality control should be done before a customer picks up their car, no? Citing things you should be doing in the first place as "extra work" and "going the extra mile" is complete BS.
The short of it? Owner wanted to joyride my car but I had noted my kms down, to their knowledge, so it wasn't touched. Work was subpar. Costs were high. Like Meme, I had a distinctly bad feeling the entire time my car was in their possession. I won't be going back to VIP Autobody.
Oh and Rennspeed sells shitty fitting fiberglass parts.
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