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Rich Z.
Actually the video of the building was taken on a Wednesday about a week or so before I pulled my car out. Justin was there. When I arrived he was out some where and had just pulled up before I took the video.
When I pulled my car out on Friday, 09/17 Chris refused to come to the shop to open the doors. I had to finally contact Toby at the body shop, who still had a a key, and have him open the doors. Chris did call him but not until I said I was on the way out to the shop. Connie was already out in Blountstown before I left. Kind of hard to explain, but my spider sense was tingling like crazy to get my car out of that shop NOW.
I have received some text messages from Chris today. He is sending me a check to cover the $1100 I gave him to buy parts that he never did. he said he is not responsible for the motor being balanced incorrectly and will not cover the expense to rebuild it or shipping.
He also said I didn't have his permission to remove the parts to my car from the building without him being there.So I guess he's not going to cover all the parts that weren't there that were on my car when I DROVE it there. He said to sue him.
I have received some text messages from Chris today. He is sending me a check to cover the $1100 I gave him to buy parts that he never did. he said he is not responsible for the motor being balanced incorrectly and will not cover the expense to rebuild it or shipping.
He also said I didn't have his permission to remove the parts to my car from the building without him being there.So I guess he's not going to cover all the parts that weren't there that were on my car when I DROVE it there. He said to sue him.
Actually, I don't believe you needed his permission, as at that time, Chris was EVICTED from the building and the owner of that building (John Arnold) granted you the permission you needed to recover whatever belonged to you. Mr. Arnold changed the locks on the doors, so Chris no longer had access to the shop.
It sounds like Chris is asking for some time before a judge. Does he really think things will go in his favor that way? In my opinion, there will be a tremendous amount of weight of evidence against him coming from all directions.
I have received some text messages from Chris today. He is sending me a check to cover the $1100 I gave him to buy parts that he never did. he said he is not responsible for the motor being balanced incorrectly and will not cover the expense to rebuild it or shipping.
He also said I didn't have his permission to remove the parts to my car from the building without him being there.So I guess he's not going to cover all the parts that weren't there that were on my car when I DROVE it there. He said to sue him.
I have written my Congressman and I do expect him to do what he can to help. If Chris marks the check 'paid in full' I think you can just line that out. Verify this with maybe an attorney.
I'm also wondering what happened to your warranty? Now I wonder if it was even balanced. He wants to be sued does he? You've been told how to do that. I would oblige. :dancer01:
Wow Rich, legally he can not keep you from your parts. Also, I'm sorry did I miss the part where you personally put your engine in?? Isn't balancing the motor part of installing it properly?
He is responsible for all the parts coming off and on your car, new and used and you have ever legal right to them. He has no claim to what is in that building after he is gone, he had time to organize and get things to the owners, he was too busy BSing everyone to get it done. Not your problem. Take him to court, it would be a walk in the park.
Is Mike's check going to be the same as yours, Thunder? You guys should race to see who can cash theirs first, to make it fair, Mike you have to walk too!
By the looks of things in the video he was OK at tearing them apart. Doesn't look like he knew how to put them back together. I'm guessing he doesn't work for free and if he's already got the money, he figures why bother. :shrug01:
I had another thought tonight. He's not at work, not at home and doesn't have any money. Hmmm.
The maroon colored car is Robert's. It's been there quite a long time. He couldn't get it out of there that day we were all there. Not sure if he has gotten it out yet, but I'm sure Mike would know.
Now this is an interesting video I just worked up. I was tied up with something a while back, but left my camcorder with Chris at the shop, so he set it up and took the video footage of himself hooking up the supposedly rebuilt transmission and differential onto my torque tube to go into my car.
I had actually seen what he claimed were my transmission and differential on the floor near the torque tube, and made comment that they didn't look like rebuilt units to me, in that the cases looked like they had freshly come out of a car. At best sprayed down with Simple Green and wiped down. I had figured that anyone rebuilding those units would have certainly cleaned them up, and put some sort of identifying mark or tag on them. You will notice in the video that they ARE nice and shiny looking, however, they are merely spray painted with silver gray paint. Coincidentally enough, the same spray paint that I had noted on my supposedly Jet Hot ceramic coated turbo housings, mentioned earlier in this thread. Quite honestly, that fact alone raised my suspicions that all was not as I was being told. So this video explicitly shows Chris mounting the transmission and differential to my torque tube to be installed in my car, all the while claiming that these were the units that I paid him $3,450.00 for. Only to have him admit under threat of inspection now by a third party, that I had not in fact gotten what I had paid for at all. All of the evidence plainly pointing to my belief that my old units were merely spray painted and put right back into my car, with Chris hoping I would be none the wiser.
Inserted between the sections of video footage are emails I exchanged with Chris concerning the transmission and differential. There is also a view of the invoice he finally sent me as a JPG attachment to an email claiming that this was the invoice I was seeking from him. I only got this "invoice" after an extreme amount of nagging about it. I believe the time period of this nagging spans MONTHS.
I suggest that you click the PAUSE button for those text sections so you can actually READ the correspondence that took place between Chris and myself. In the last email, Chris Harwood plainly admits that I did NOT get the transmission and differential that I paid him for, and says he will refund my money for them. What makes this even more noteworthy, is that with this fact in mind, then it is obvious that the invoice he sent to me is completely bogus and was created to mislead me into believing that he had, in fact, provided me with those items I had paid for. And as an aside, it is noteworthy concerning the conflict of stories that the bogus invoice shows that the transmission had been "media blasted" which was NOT the case with the unit that Chris spray painted and put into my car.
The PROOF of what transpired doesn't get much more black and white than this is.
He hasn't gotten "rite" with anyone yet. I've been waiting a long time, already. In a funny/ironic twist the last text I got from him said "I havnt forgot you just wanted you to know"
I'm taking my car to a shop. Even if I have to put some money into an inspection, I'm scared of what's under the hood.
