Geeto67

I never received an email from you with the requested information. However, I did receive requested information from 6 other customers and insurance companies. I'll just assume you didnt send it or you typod the email address. I'm sure whatever shop you choose to take it to will give you 8 hour turn around time for a brand new cover.

 

Did you ever think to call the number on the right side of my signature?

 

Im sorry dropping your car off took such effort. You know, pull up, get out, keys in box, drive off leaving the first vehicle behind. I guess we never established a time other then "morning".

 

It's okay, I don't consider this a review. My work speaks for itself, not people not dropping cars off. Frankly, based on this interaction and the last phone conversation, I didn't loose a thing.

 

I dunno man. Look I don't know you and your work does come highly recommended but I have to say this is not really a good public attitude to have. You should consider this a review, because it does speak a little to your communication which is part of your professionalism.

When I was looking for a body shop on here I got a lot, and I do mean A LOT, of people who recommended you very highly but they all said the same thing: "he's fantastic but....he sucks at communication". I get it you have your loyal customers and a reputation for good actual work, but you do also have this other reputation as being difficult to communicate with.

this may be hurting you more than you know. I didn't go with you because honestly for an in and out insurance job on a car I depended on I really didn't need to add a communication problem to the mix (esp when an urgency in my life is not an urgency in yours). It sounds like you have a great loyal customer base but you might not be growing as fast as you could when even your customer base is saying "he's great,but..."

I'm not trying to jump on your shit and be a dick here, just pointing out an area in which you could grow that might help your business. I personally would at some point like to talk to you about work on a car I have because apparently your work is "that good", but I would have wait until I didn't depend on that car so I could get comfortable with not speaking to you for two weeks while you have my car.

..now cue my fan club to tell me what a dick I am being.

I have had a really good experience with Auto Body Specialists on 5th ave in Grandview based on a recommendation from this board. I would call them, they will sort you out and as a bonus you get to look at all the pretty race cars they work on.

Auto Body Specialist

Auto Body Shop

Address: 1058 W 5th Ave, Columbus, OH 43212

Phone: (614) 299-5551

Good info guys. I'm deff going to look into some of those areas you hit on. Just a few questions though.

 

Why not buy one already lifted? Probably ragged out?

From my personal perspective and experience:

- Lift kits run the gamut from poorest of poor quality to well engineered, but unless you have a lot of experience with them it's hard to tell if it is good one or bad one or if it is installed properly.

- lifting a jeep often requires a lot of changes: pinon angles, transfer case spacing, drive-shafts, axle ratios, etc....none of these things are usually included in the kit and a lot of times you are basically buying someone's half finished project. There is always more work to do on a lifted jeep so often you are being asked to compromise more than if you bought a stock one. The ones that have been done "right" are usually expensive and often have only the tub and frame and pieces of the interior left as stock as everything else has been touched - and even then there may still be one or two things.

- most people don't have a "need" for a lifted jeep. Most people don't have a need for a Rubicon really either. They buy it thinking about how cool it looks and how they are going to go off roading every other weekend but in reality they go at most once a month if diligent and committed, less frequent if normal, otherwise they would already have a lifted truck. when you don't have a burning need in your loins to climb rocks it makes it harder to live with all the other compromises in the next bullet point.....

- ...Lifted jeeps are a pain in the ass to drive on the street: the steering wanders, the bump steer gets worse, it is slow (unless v-8 swapped), maintenance costs double (ever price out 35-inch tires?), fuel economy suffers, reliability and durability goes down, visibility suffers, sometimes they run hotter, etc... The people I know that bought stock wranglers or lightly modded ones kept them for a long time but anybody I know who bought a lifted jeep (over 2") sold it within 2 years of buying it.

again ymmv

Jeep purist said the same thing when they went from the CJ's to the YJ, YJ to the TJ, and TJ to the JK....

Nobody said the YJ was more comfortable than the CJ...they just bitched and moaned about how much plastic was in the interior and that it now had carpet vs the all metal tin can goodness of the CJ. Saying a YJ is more comfortable than a CJ is like saying a stainless steel bed of nails is more comfortable than a galvanized steel bed of nails.

Maybe I am biased because I have been Daily Driving a 1995 YJ for almost 20 years (I say almost because there were some years where I would use my bike or my GTO as primary and the wrangler as back-up), but I don't think there is anything wrong with daily driving a jeep. Plenty do it every day. However.....

....it is not for the faint of heart. If you are the kind of person who

- looks at a 1960's rust bucket car and thinks: "yeah, I'll have no problem driving it to California"

- sleeps on a hard mattress and when you camp you sleep on the ground

- laments the loss of hand crank windows in mainstream cars

- thinks Air conditioning is a luxury item

- doesn't equate creaks and rattles with poor engineering and build quality but rather considers them a pleasant side effect of normal wear and tear and a small badge of honor

- doesn't mind using a hammer to fix things

- doesn't mind hearing loss

- doesn't use a cell phone in their car

- thinks traction control is for pussies

- thinks America hasn't made a decent car since American Motors was still a thing

- has a field of fucks that is constantly barren and therefore has none to harvest and distribute

Then I think you will do fine. If you are not any of those things then you might struggle a bit. FWIW though I do see plenty of 20-something women driving TJs, way more than I see anybody driving YJs these days, so it isn't that hard.

Get the hardtop. Why? driving with the soft top up is loud and annoying. Get full doors if you can too, you can always buy half doors later for cheaper than you can find TJ full doors if you really want to have both. Swapping doors takes 5 minutes.

Even after you get the hardtop you should consider putting a liner on the inside of it like plasti-dip. I know people think it isn't much of a liner but my buddy did it to his JK and it took a lot of the hollow soup can echo out of a hardtop jeep. It also helped a little bit with the temps (raw fiberglass hardtops transmit a lot of heat in the summer and cold in the winter. Planning to do it to the YJ when it stops raining.

Be prepared to be very lonely with your Jeep. When the weather is nice it is a fun convertible and everybody will want to pile in and drive around. Any other weather? everyone will hate being in it. If your significant other is not a "jeep person" it will just feel like a junky falling apart car that you can't have a conversation in at highway speeds. If you have kids under 4 years old they will hate it because it's either too hot or too cold and they can't really enjoy the top down part.

things to check:

radiator

windshield seal

rear main seal

clutch (including the slave cyl)

transfer case

rust (esp frame rust)

track-lok limited slip (factory ones are usually blown by 80K miles)

front axle U-joints

Front axle seals

Driveshaft u-joints

Things to avoid:

automatic transmissions (they seriously suck)

4 cylinder wranglers

TJs without air-conditioning

Lift kits (unless you really want a trail truck)

Feel free to take a pot shot at me and I'll show you how to handle it better, being you take the webs way to serious.. Yes, this is off topic and sorry to the op.

 

And I don't have a problem with you. But if I did, and I PM'd you..................I feel my inbox would be full quickly, and I'd have a beard.

 

I don't take it serious at all. This is all entertainment for me. Been hearing from others that "you have it in for me" and clearly you are thinking about me way to much for you to mention it out of the blue and start this dialog.

I don't have to take any pot shots, why would I? Who are you that I should give enough of a shit other than to comment on something you said an move on?

I didn't think he was being aggressive and looking for a fight.... Were you?

Not in the slightest, but he doesn't even register on my radar and I'm not going around taking pot shots at him. I'm just saying if dude really has a problem why fill up other people's threads with it, why not just pm me and talk it out?

901 tranny and not sure about wheel base would have to look into it. My guess would be no change. Only had the car for a few days already had to get under it. This weather isn't helping either.

What's wrong with it?

Does it still have the original '68 engine? It would be a 2.0 liter if stock, 3.0 liter if upgraded to 1982 specs.

Wasn't starting anything. Just a general observation that others seem to agree with. I'm not trying to "fight" you, so no need to PM shit. Toodles.

Yeah sure ok buddy. Your comment totally made sense in the context of the conversation and wasn't at all an attempt to provoke something. Yeah whatever. sad. So so sad.

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Anybody going?

Sounds like you want a refrigerated beverage dispenser. They are pretty expensive if you want a mass produced one you would see in a restaurant or gas station. Quick google search found this one for example

 

http://soda-dispensers.com/Merchant5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=D15-4&Category_Code=BeverageDisp

Nutter Hardware in the Kingsdale Shopping center in UA rents these kind of drink dispensers for parties and such. I mean if you don't need them for more than a day might be a better option than purchasing.

THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THAT TO ME IN A ORDERLY FASHION.

Now keep the ball rolling.

Why do you want to poke the bear? If all you want to do is be aggressive just PM me, it will be easier and you won't look like a douche picking a fight.

ItzaMe:

I am curious if the wheelbase was changed. 1968 would make it an 87 inch wheelbase but the later "modern" aircooleds would be 89 inch. The overall length of the car didn't change but the rear wheel position did. wondering if when they did the turbo look wheel arches they did all the other stuff too.

Also what tranny is in it? 901? 915? G50?

Geeto cr's most awesome member.

fixed it for you.

I'm awaiting until geeto gets in here and gives us the history of a 68 and a 82. Then explains financially why this was a good or bad move. To be finished up by explaining how a portion of the money spent on the sunroof swap landed in the hands of ISIS. Until then, nice pickup!

Why? Once a Porsche isn't original anymore it's a tinker toy. It's not an "82" any more that it is a VW beetle, it just has a lot of more modern parts on it. Nice car.

I don't think you'll find anyone these days that will say an aircooled Porsche is financially a bad move. All he has to do it hold it for 2 years without doing a thing to it and the increase in value will beat inflation.

Racing is expensive, if you can't do something at this level, let alone when you run a shop it might best to stay home.

 

Besides, the show is rigged because if the guys from OKC really flexed their muscles nobody would show, let alone be dumb enough to bet.

At what level? I'm pretty sure dude is racing already and this is an unforeseen added expense for him trying to do something out of the normal budget.

I don't think anybody here is laboring under the illusion that the show is not scripted, stages, and rigged in some way. as for "flexing" their muscles I am not sure what you mean - racing on beat to shit public or semi public roads without traction prep is a huge limitation on power, I'm sure everyone has to turn it down just so the cars don't just whip 180s right of the line and plow through fields and crap.

When you are holding yourself out on TV as "the fastest" there will always be someone to challenge that. I'm sure they pick guys with impressive looking setups that they know they can beat because there is no shortage of people who want to be on TV.

More weight, and what Farkas said.

 

Also, they have the same brakes so...

 

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Do they? I thought the 3.2 had the same brakes as the 2.0t. Good to know.

They assume you love the cock? Cbus is the San Francisco of the midwest after all

So, that opinion is not just limited to members on this board then? good to know.

and twice as girly.

it's four times as girly. Get it right.

But then again - take a toy dog on a leash to a park and see how many good looking women come up and talk to you just because your "girly" dog is cute. Same effect.

If I can afford a new Challenger and afford to mod it, I should have no problem affording the repair costs when I break it. How can that guy accept donations for his repair bill when that money would be much better off going to people who can barely afford a roof over their heads or putting food on the table?

 

Fix your expensive toy with your own fucking money. If you can't afford to fix it, you shouldn't have bought it in the first place.

except he didn't have to. He put enough karma in the world and was "a good enough guy" that when something bad happened enough people didn't want to see him struggle even a little. Ya know what? it happens.

You are trying to defeat an economic principle with a moral argument based on your own morals as an outsider to the transaction. Of course you don't get it, and you aren't supposed to because there is no ROI for you.

Shut up.

Classy.

He's literally drawing strictly on star power with no real project at all. Just a "in case shit breaks, lol!" fund....but I'd take a guess and say that if something that costs $5k breaks, he won't be racing on TV regardless of money.

So you are his accountant then? you know how his business works? You work in the industry and you have inside info? no?

Furthermore, I'm no expert,

There is a shocker!!! Clearly. I have a news flash for you - Studios don't pay for movies to get made out of pocket either. They beg people for money and promise a monetary return on investment. Here your ROI isn't money it's in entertainment value and maybe a warm fuzzy feeling and a t-shirt.

Here's a question - There has to be at least one guy on this site who does dragweek or something similar, if they are willing to chime in, how much does it cost? I betcha it ain't cheap.

I look at it this way - if the dude wants to be on TV and not look like a joke (insert joke about people on TV here) he has to roll out the best effort he can. And that costs. I highly doubt this is even going to cost him the $7.5K he's asking - it will probably be more and he'll have to put his own money into it.

If people want to be generous and donate however they see fit, hey, let em live. But if you plan on asking people for money, at least beg for a good reason. Some of these gofundme deals just seem like really shitty ways of asking for charity towards a really shitty cause.

to you..to the person "begging" maybe not so much.

yeah they have a quality control issue, but then again that's kind of the point. Put anything up there and let the market determine if it has "value". It's kind of the heart of free market economics.

I saw something a couple months back where some guy bought a new Challenger or something, immediately modded the shit out of it, then when the trans broke started advertising a gofundme all over facebook. And people donated a few grand within a day because he is a "good guy who deserves to get his badass car back on the road"

So what's wrong with that? Being a "good guy" shouldn't be rewarded once in a while? Nobody here as passed the hat at the track for their buddy with a broken race car/bike/boat/plane that needed something in a pinch? I find that hard to believe.

Want to know the great part about kickstarter/gofundme/etc...crowd funding sites? if a project really has no visible value demonstrable to the public the thing doesn't get funded. as far as the gofundme under discussion - we will just have to wait and see if it happens or not.

didn't know stating our opinion was shitting? what is a forum for again?

 

think of it as a thread bump

so opinions are ok, but opinions on opinions are not. gotcha. Lolz.

People can spend their money any way they want. Who cares if they decide to spend it on something they find entertaining.

Accelerated built my BRZFRSGT86. Don and his crew are good guys and have treated me well. They don't run on a big budget, so I'm happy to contribute to his effort. If you disapprove of him asking for funding, you have the luxury of not giving.

I don't know if there is any way I can like this post more. you don't want to support it? don't give any money. It's a simple premise. I don't think anybody is confused about this being not charity - but since when do you have to give money only to charity?

People think these shows are big budget and have the money to spend to get other people involved but it is not the case. the TV show usually doesn't make any money for the stars directly. They make their money off merch and secondary revenue streams. Most of these TV shops are still shop 1st, and then merch retailers second and TV guys usually 4th or 5th down the list.

Point is, If you know them and like them, or maybe you just like the show and want to see a serious import car "race" a v8 car on TV, here is an opportunity to help make something happen. If not, last I checked nobody is holding a gun to your head. People have been "passing the hat" for centuries and not really for the most charitable reason.

For all the people that want to just shit on this...think in your life when you had a really good opportunity and couldn't pull it off because you couldn't get the funds together and what you would have done to do that. If you have never hard that experience maybe you just aren't trying that hard at life.