[wisdommaster]

Hello Motor heads,

I put my car into the shop five months ago to change out my dummy lites for the real Mach Gauges. Since I am new to the Hobby I performed my due dilligent checks on the person who was doing the job.
Every month I was told that I would need this or that harness(Harnesses are not cheap). I purchased the three harnesses(the last one I purchased was given to the shop over a month ago) and assumed that all would be done in about a week.
Well it has gotten nasty. I called the shop and they keep telling me that they don't know what's wrong if it's the harnesses or the gauges. They try to make me feel like they are doing me a favor by stating that all they have to do is hook up the components and if they don't work they did there job! I then ask them whats wrong and they can't give me an answer. I don't want to seem pesky due to the fact that I don't know if this is a real issue or are they just BS-ing me. How long does it take to due an electrical check on gauges or wiring? Does this sound like they don't know what they are doing? Should I just move on to a new shop and take them to small claims court? Can I send them to a site that can help them? Or is this electrical gauge issue a real tricky situation?
It should be notied that I purchases the harnesses seperately.

[turboed]

Originally Posted by wisdommaster

Hello Motor heads,

I put my car into the shop five months ago to change out my dummy lites for the real Mach Gauges. Since I am new to the Hobby I performed my due dilligent checks on the person who was doing the job.
Every month I was told that I would need this or that harness(Harnesses are not cheap). I purchased the three harnesses(the last one I purchased was given to the shop over a month ago) and assumed that all would be done in about a week.
Well it has gotten nasty. I called the shop and they keep telling me that they don't know what's wrong if it's the harnesses or the gauges. They try to make me feel like they are doing me a favor by stating that all they have to do is hook up the components and if they don't work they did there job! I then ask them whats wrong and they can't give me an answer. I don't want to seem pesky due to the fact that I don't know if this is a real issue or are they just BS-ing me. How long does it take to due an electrical check on gauges or wiring? Does this sound like they don't know what they are doing? Should I just move on to a new shop and take them to small claims court? Can I send them to a site that can help them? Or is this electrical gauge issue a real tricky situation?
It should be notied that I purchases the harnesses seperately.

Thats simple DC wiring. Which should only take a day or so to hook everything up, and run wires.

[Veronica]

Hello. What year model car are we talking about here?

[andrewmp6]

I'M taking a guess but i think hes talking about the 3 center gauges on the 71-73 mustangs had.But yeah a day or less is all it should take or theres something wrong with the parts or the guy putting it in.

[Bob A]

If anyone knows that's Veroncia, but my thought is 5 months is about 4 1/2 months too long. I'd move on

[madmonkey]

I agree I would move on. My thoughts are if you feel like your getting hosed you probably are. I had similar horror stories with people who worked exclusively on classic mustangs. I took mine in for a major tune up, pertronix install, rebuilding of the carb, and power steering, changing of all the gaskets as well. It was fine till I got it home and a week later started leaking where they replaced everything. I took it back to have them redo the work they did. The also said it was leaking around the crankshaft so i had them change that too. when I took it back I also foolishly asked them to check out the tranny since it was revving high before shifting (my initial thought was a vacuum hose leak). They said it was internal components (i forget the details) and wanted to charge me 300 bucks just to take it apart. I finally listened to myself and told them no thanks. Took it to AAMCO, sure enough a broken vacuum line (actually cut off vacuum hose). cost me 60 bucks to fix as opposed to their 300 to do work that was unrelated. My initial feeling was right not to trust them, they were breaking things or making them worse to charge me for extra work. These "experts" would have to blind to not see a severed vacuum hose...i think we know what was really up with that. I simply don't get if they had a good rapport with me I would take it back for work and parts and spread the good word. A good, trust worthy mechanic that knows how to work with these cars is gold, hold onto that or just do what im doing now, and start to do the work yourself it's cheaper, its more rewarding and you know that you did it right.

[68 wmich]

grab the car and run run run

[astumpf]

I replaced every single wire in my car in about a week. an under dash harness is not that bad at all!

[bradsalex]

I think they are trying to give you the shaft. I would try to get your car back and if they wont give it up call the police and tell them that these people are trying to steal your car. Oh yeah, and DON'T PAY THEM A DIME.