SCguy
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Well, here's my story...
6.25 years ago I entered in an agreement to have a British car repair shop restore (ground up) a 73 TR6 for me. Well, finally the car is almost ready (the shop really dragged it's feet and I pretty much gave up two years ago). This past month I received my first finanical update even though I had asked repeatedly for one 1 1/2 years ago. The original estimate was $28147.50 (15,840 labor, 7.000) parts on 11/11/98. Now with only the top and the interior trim to go my revised bill is $18,945.20 labor, $15470.00 parts and $6410.00 sublet (paint and machine shop which was part of labor in the original estimate) or a total of $40,646 and... still growing.
As the project was being worked on (within the first three years) I bought (on eBay) and added, overdrive so there is more labor cost. and of course some unexpected items came up (rust).
With the car almost done, we are almost $12,499 over the original estimate. On Friday I told my mechanic that I was not willing to spend any more money. He said that he would not let the car go as is. I mentioned some mistakes that were made in the car like the bumpers which were rechromed without filling two obvious holes in them. So we both kind of politely, got into it. I'm not sure what to do. Hire a lawer and try to renegotiate the price, mediation? or just pay and make sure everything is perfect. I'm pretty passive by nature and he definately took advantage of this by not making my car a prioity.
Oh, one more thing that I'm not sure how significant is would be that on all the parts, I'm paying retail prices. My mechanic paid wholsale. I'm told that this is normal.
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6.25 years ago I entered in an agreement to have a British car repair shop restore (ground up) a 73 TR6 for me. Well, finally the car is almost ready (the shop really dragged it's feet and I pretty much gave up two years ago). This past month I received my first finanical update even though I had asked repeatedly for one 1 1/2 years ago. The original estimate was $28147.50 (15,840 labor, 7.000) parts on 11/11/98. Now with only the top and the interior trim to go my revised bill is $18,945.20 labor, $15470.00 parts and $6410.00 sublet (paint and machine shop which was part of labor in the original estimate) or a total of $40,646 and... still growing.
As the project was being worked on (within the first three years) I bought (on eBay) and added, overdrive so there is more labor cost. and of course some unexpected items came up (rust).
With the car almost done, we are almost $12,499 over the original estimate. On Friday I told my mechanic that I was not willing to spend any more money. He said that he would not let the car go as is. I mentioned some mistakes that were made in the car like the bumpers which were rechromed without filling two obvious holes in them. So we both kind of politely, got into it. I'm not sure what to do. Hire a lawer and try to renegotiate the price, mediation? or just pay and make sure everything is perfect. I'm pretty passive by nature and he definately took advantage of this by not making my car a prioity.
Oh, one more thing that I'm not sure how significant is would be that on all the parts, I'm paying retail prices. My mechanic paid wholsale. I'm told that this is normal.
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