Thread: query on mechanic business stealing parts

See http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...ipped-off.html from another person from Adelaide.

don't take any advice given on a forum as gospel

go a to a legal eagle and get the correct advice straight up

would be my advice

thanks! looks like someone has experienced the same!

yeah i just dont know what legal eagle to talk to lol, ive never been wronged like this or had something stolen like this. i dont know if should contact police, current affairs, or who LOL

I would suggest that you go to your local court house,speak to someone at the desk and they should be able to give you a phone number of the legal aid office,then go from there

But, it looks like a case of thieft,has somebody at that business got the same make or model or a vehicle with the same motor,if so ask for a look under the bonnet.

i hate to be negative Nancy but here are some things to consider

you vs a business that turns over more than a million a years, whose going to have the better lawyer?

depending the outcome of your phone call, can you prove they took it?
what proof do you have that it was on the car when you took it in?
what proof do you have that it was deliberately removed, ie, it wasn't an accident or a misunderstanding.

sorry i cant think of anyhtinkg else


edit:
thought of something else: two months is a long time between having work done and discovering the problem. that will raise eyebrows.

dont get me wrong, i dont trust these guys, im just not sure something can be done though legal channels.

Why don't you just call up your local police station, and run it past them? They will have some thoughts on whether you'll get anywhere and what the process might be....

I hate things like that. Many moons ago we took a highly modified VW bug to a specialist for some tweaking. When we got it back, our very expensive german shocks had been swapped out for some cheapie Monroes. Went back and confronted them, and they said "we thought they were worn, so we put these on to help you out". Yeah sure. Why no charge for the shocks then? They gave us our original s back and we never went back to them again.

It sucks when people do crap like that.

i have photos of it being on my car, reciepts of proof of it being modified, even a thread in here somewhere of the process. and there is no way in which it was accidently removed and replaced. wrong parts do not just fall on peoples cars.

and yes i am aware they might go oh anything can happen in two months, but who on earth would go and refit a stock part known to cause issues when they went through all the trouble to stop that problem? and who knows how many people there are out there who have had them remove bits and would never know because they do not work on their own cars? id not looked at my manifold after work was done there, as i never in a million years expected mine to not be there. i checked the welsh plug was not leaking but did not look a little further down to suss out my manifold, who would expect this to happen? worst decision ever to take my car to a professional. i am sorry to al the good mechanics out there, its no wonder you all get such a bad rap when people cannot even trust big professional places.

bigger lawyer, more money or what, does not give them the right to steal peoples stuff.