Wheel gets taken from shop? Need advice.

[S14Driftr91]

Probably about 6 months or sooner, I dropped off a wheel at a local machine shop "Owen Machine" since he told me could fix a crack in it. Well he had this wheel in his shop for about 2 months, I kept calling him and getting "oh yea I haven't had the time, ill give a go at it today"... He eventually calls to tell me that he welded on this for so long that "he blew the shop's breaker" but he doesnt trust his own work so he doesn't want to weld on it anymore. He said to me "I dont want to charge you anymore for what I've done since I dont trust it"... Me, thinking that this guy is planning on actually charging me for a service he couldnt properly complete? I was so pissed at this, I did not go to his shop or had called him for probably 3 or 4 months. For the past couple weeks I've tried to catch him at his shop but he wasn't there the 2 times I went. Today I call him, and he informs me that my wheel was placed into a scrap pile and someone took it.

Is there anything I can do about this?? The wheel was a kei office modex 17x8+20.. A hard to come by size in these.. So now i just have 3 wheels sitting there... I shouldn't have waited as long as I did but still this is messed up :facepalm:

[shanelach]

He messed up, you messed up. What's there to say?

[VNG704]

Speak to a lawyer, give a review of his shop online, and the bbb.

[EDacIouSX]

He messed up, you messed up. What's there to say?

so it's his fault he went to a business and they messed up? how did you come to that conclusion, i don't understand.

[Hoffman5982]

No its his fault that he left it there for so fucking long.

OP- what is wrong with you? 3-4 months? Did you think his shop was a storage facility as well?

[ILoveJDM]

No its his fault that he left it there for so fucking long.

OP- what is wrong with you? 3-4 months? Did you think his shop was a storage facility as well?

yeah, if someone didnt show up to pick up their part for 3-4 months.. what the hell is he supposed to do about it. at that point you think hes not going to pay and its garbage.

[hotlavaflow]

I have to agree^^^ 3-4 months is crazy. From he said he couldn't fix it you should have gone back to get it if you wanted it. It's understandable that he would assume after 3-4 months you don't want a rim deemed irreparable.

[shanelach]

He isn't a storage facility.

[zo0d]

17x8 +20, doesn't sound like a huge lose.

[oscarsx]

I'm sure he was talking about the part where he didn't call or give any information whether he wanted to pick it or not.. Both are at fault, take the loss and move on.

- oz

[EnemyS15]

Op fucked up for letting HIS property sit @ some shop for that long. The business fucked up for not contacting OP about his rim and advising him to come get it, or it's going to the scrap heap.


Just trade facepalms and call it a lesson learned.

[fliprayzin240sx]

"Its always somebody else fault and never my fault, I'm the fucking victim here!!!"

[S14Driftr91]

I understand what all you guys were saying and I know on my part I messed up for leaving them there as long as I did, but out of courtesy I feel like he should have called me saying "hey you still want this"... I knew I should have never gave the wheel to him. I was just wondering if there was any suggestions for what I could do. Guess i'll just have to bite the bullet on this. They'll be up for sale shortly

[fliprayzin240sx]

Nothing, 4 months, he probably forgot about it and somebody else in the shop prolly chucked it since its eating up space. It prolly got dropped off a scrap yard since aluminum makes pretty good money.

[jr_ss]

I don't think it was on him to be responsible for calling you, to ask if you still wanted your wheel. I understand your frustration, but shops aren't storage facilities and generally they clean up every few months. Not hearing from you, nor picking up the wheel, he assumed you no longer wanted it and/or weren't coming to get it.

Take the loss and move on.

[S14jake]

Sounds like the owner of the shop was honest enough to tell you he wasn't comfortable with it and didn't want to sign off on an inferior product and you reacted badly. Learn your lesson about procrastination and move on.

[jamg]

your fault for not getting it.

take your losses, you now have a set of drift spares.

[EDacIouSX]

oh i see yea 3-4 months is pretty jacked up... should have picked it up sooner.

[WristWork]

You waited that long? You didn't want the wheels neither lol

[HPKMotorsports3]

If the rim had a crack why wouldnt you have just gone to a Rim Repair Specialist? I mean thats their whole business is repairing cracked and curb rims. Hell they drive to you now with their "all in one" vans. ESPECIALLY IF ITS A RARE RIM!

[S14Driftr91]

Sounds like the owner of the shop was honest enough to tell you he wasn't comfortable with it and didn't want to sign off on an inferior product and you reacted badly. Learn your lesson about procrastination and move on.

Well in the beginning he told me that the fix would be no problem. "piece of cake" he said. He told me he would have his friend whos a fabricator do it. Little did I know he did it himself, and his welding techniques really aren't that great at all, so I feel like when he tried to "repair" the damage, he fucked it up even more.

If the rim had a crack why wouldnt you have just gone to a Rim Repair Specialist? I mean thats their whole business is repairing cracked and curb rims. Hell they drive to you now with their "all in one" vans. ESPECIALLY IF ITS A RARE RIM!

Tried that, and I even emailed a bunch of wheel repair people to have it shipped out. The crack was by the hub and fixable but all the companies didnt want to deal with the liability issue, god forbid if something happened.

[godrifttoday]

At the end of the day u gave up on your wheels..."blaming the victim"

[mewantkouki]

Those wheels are ugly, you're not missing out on anything.

[TougeLove]

Check NY law but after a certain amount of time (vary by state) if you havent paid him or contacted him, its his. Why didn't you just pick it up when he wasnt there? If they refuse to give it to you, thats when you call the cops.

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[drscooper]

op your a dumbass/thread

[FRpilot]

He eventually calls to tell me that he welded on this for so long that "he blew the shop's breaker" but he doesnt trust his own work so he doesn't want to weld on it anymore. He said to me "I dont want to charge you anymore for what I've done since I dont trust it"... Me, thinking that this guy is planning on actually charging me for a service he couldnt properly complete? I was so pissed at this, I did not go to his shop or had called him for probably 3 or 4 months.


sounds to me that OP didn't want to be billed on the time the shop already put into welding the wheel, got mad, and thought that not contacting the shop for 4 months would make the shop forget about the bill.

should have went there right away to get it.

[GreenApple]

You mustv not wanted it bad enough to take control of your own property. It is partly your fault too to not make quick and deliberate actions instead of waiting it out.

[Matador]

So multiple wheel repair companies refused to work on the crack and you still felt comfortable attempting to repair and ultimately drive on the wheel? He probably did you a favor as that wheel would very likely have failed on you. I guess you could have kept it to make a table or something, but that would require you to actually pick up your property.

[S14Driftr91]

Well its whatever, like all you guys say, I didnt really give a crap about the wheels, they're ugly as previously mentioned. Im a dumbass:stupid:

[S14jake]

Well its whatever, like all you guys say, I didnt really give a crap about the wheels, they're ugly as previously mentioned. Im a dumbass:stupid:

welcome to the internet

[Sumslapper]

The first thing you did wrong was letting it sit there for 2 months. I wouldn't leave my wheel at a shop for more than 1 week. You can fix a crack in 30 minutes with the right tools. Now your mad that he tossed it 6 months later? I would have trashed it within 3 months.

[Matej]

Bet this guy finished watching the Drift Bible and bought the first set of Kei Office wheels he was able to afford, even knowing one of them was cracked, still thinking how good of a deal he got on such a priceless gem of a wheel.
Only to eventually learn that nobody cares anymore. Sorry. :(

[S14Driftr91]

Bet this guy finished watching the Drift Bible and bought the first set of Kei Office wheels he was able to afford, even knowing one of them was cracked, still thinking how good of a deal he got on such a priceless gem of a wheel.
Only to eventually learn that nobody cares anymore. Sorry. :(

Yea totally. I took them off a friends wrecked s14. Ive had these sitting in my back yard for 3 years now, just thought it would be nice to finally get it fixed so I could sell them.. If you look at my previous threads I had these for sale a while ago..

[drscooper]

Well its whatever, like all you guys say, I didnt really give a crap about the wheels, they're ugly as previously mentioned. Im a dumbass:stupid:

if you dont really give a crap then why the fuck make a thread bitching?:rimshot:

your a dumbass:down: