Trouble Maker

Number of times Jesse's cheated death:just ran out of fingers and toes. I win bitches.

Don't be sorry for anyone that I felt the need to make this post. I think if he's offering up his services people need to hear what happened so they can weigh this, and any good stories, in on their decisions. Feel sorry for the people on this board that would use him not knowing my story if I hadn't done this. I hope that this post in no way effects anyones judgment as to whether he can do good work or not. I had him do no work so I can't comment. If anything it shows he can do good work because he knows when he can't do the work. My criticisms are on his 'business sense' and timing. Also, if you understand why I'm upset, then what would you have done about it? Maybe handheld it a little differently but this is how I saw fit to handle the situation that I was put in. So please, don't feel sorry that I felt the need to post this. There were numerous people (friends) whom when I told them about this story, just venting, suggested that I let this be known, so I'm not alone in this thinking. I can surely tell you that I'm not just going to sit here and feel sorry for myself about it. BTW, we need to play some pool sometime. :woowoo:

No way in hell your too tall to fit in one.

Now that one might be a little bit of a strech. I'm sure there are some guys wives on here that wouldn't want to drive a stock f-body because it has 'way too much power'. I don't know if you are married or not, but I'm sure if you were, your wife probably woudln't feel comfortable driving your car. But most on here would consider it a street car.

Fuck a Radical. I want an Ariel Atom.

Damn when the sofa king of the re todd did's starts cracking jokes on you, you should just kill yourself.

I can't figure out if either of those pictures are of girls or guys???

The reason I ever posted this was to let people know about the situation that were considering using you for work. Therefore I only thought it appropriate to let people looking at that thread know about this one. That did nothing to clog up that thread. You posting a reply to it clogged it up more than I did. If I were trying to be a dick and clog up your thread I would have posted all of this in that thread. If I were trying to be a dick and clog up your other thread I would post in that one and say "Don't ask this guy to do anyting complicated *cough*headers on mustang/tranny*cough". But this thread isn't about me being pissed, it's about informing others. Yeah, I blew a little steam in my first post, but that's only to be expected.

You can't spell, which is ok, but you 'can't grammar' either, which is just ignorant. Do you seriously talk like that?

All's I can hear in my head is 'dum dum dum' from that South Park episode about the Mormons. Then Jon post and it's like 'smart smart smart smart'. Not saying Jon's smart, but comapred to Thorne...

Haha, I woke up? I don't remember that, and Ben said he didn't think I woke up. Rigsby is lucky I didn't puke on him. I went to sleep because I thought I was going to get sick.

You should have done that in the first place and not told me you could do the job if you really couldn't do it/didn't know about it yet. I wouldn't have minded if you did it in the first place instead of telling me you could do the job in the first place not knowing that you could. You obviously knew something was up when you went into work on monday or you wouldn't have looked at the procedure for it. When did Nate tell you about having to pull of the nose, over the weekend? You could have called me before that and said "Look, I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do this because of x, y, and z. Hold off on buying the parts until I can do more research." Lesson learned by you, don't assume what a job entails. You NEVER called me, I had to call you. You sent me a PM telling me that you couldn't do it, but that was too late, I had already ordered the parts (about 8 hours prior to your PM). I ordered the parts exactly when I told you I was going to. Some research prior to Monday morning on your part, or a phone call as soon as you knew about this issue would have made this issue non-existent for me. I understand why you don't want to/can't do it, I stated that over the phone and in the first post in this thread. I just wish you would have researched and found that out just a few hours earlier and I could have postponed ordering the parts until I had the cash to do it outright. I'm not coming on here trying to say you are a horrible person or fucked me over. I also stated that in my first post. Just wanted to let them know about the situation and my take on it. I'm sure anyone else here would have been pissed too if this happened to them. I'm trying to save others from this possible situation. You have every right to say your side, but don't come on here and lie about what happened (saying you called me). Lesson learned for me too, don't trust people you've never dealt with and do some research about a job before you ask someone to do it Although I don't think knowning how to do a job is my responsibility if I'm paying someone to do it, it could have saved me this headache. It should cost me around $700 at a number of reputable, large shops. Just waiting to hear back from a few of them.

That's fine, when I PM him about a timing belt/water pump change on a cramped engine bay of a 2000 Audi he shouldn't accept the job until he knows what he's really getting into. Or should just flat out say "I'm not interested and/or I don't feel I have the compentencey/tools to do this job". There would be absoutley nothing wrong with doing that.

It's a 2000 S4 Manual. I'm sure you're dad has All Data (or something to that effect) but I ordered the "Bentley" manual for my car, factory service manual, on CD, if it may help at all. My only concern is if he has the special tools needed. The issue is, there is a (set of) tool(s) that are required to lock some stuff in place (cam gears, maybe more?). There are no marks for timing so you have to have these tools, if you don't, the timing can (and probably will) be off. The other shop that a friend is in the middle of getting me a quote for has these tools. We can talk more about it later, I will probably go to my rents house tonight and pick that CD up. I ordered it with this order and haven't been by their house yet to pick that shipment up. I will be reading the whole procedure so I can better convey what is involved. I'm doing Water Pump, T-Stat, timing belt, timing belt idler, and timing belt tensioner pulley (just the pulley, not the tensioner). Along with a very easy mount on the front of the engine once you are in there (almost not even worth mentioning, but have to say it). Also the acessories belt, but that needs to come off anyways just to get to the timing/water pump stuff. I also already have the coolant needed for a flush and fill. I should have all of the parts needed. Thanks man, I really appreciate it. I will definitely get you back out in Colorado for the hookup!

I got you drunk, now you get me drunk. :woowoo: And if you weren't drunk at our party, I feel sorry for you. I vaguely remember you being there, don't even know if you drank or not.

Haha, yeah, I can't spell at all (hence why I'm an engineer and not a poet). I always use word to spell check but word can't catch me not paying attention to when I'm letting it use the wrong word. I guess it take a psychologist to catch something like that. I once used impotent in a work related email for important, true story.

I'm sure you already know this but just figured I’d warn you. How many you can have and still be legal as far as BAC is concerned can change drastically depending on what your body is doing that day. Anything from how much you ate, what you ate, when you ate it, how much (fluids) you’ve had to drink, if you have a cold (or anything else ‘wrong’ physiologically), if you are taking any medications (even if they don’t interact with alcohol), what kind of mood you are in. Just a little fyi.

I’m pretty sure that’s what I’m going to do. Waiting to hear back from a ‘friend’ who works at a local shop about what it will cost/what they can do for me.

My guess would be one of these 'very fast street cars' (125-130mph) with about as much money put in the suspension/cage/preping the car as the car was originally bought for. And someone crazy enough with enough skill to drive it.

I'm not sure I'd want to drive that on the street, talk about spine crushing. I think Colts quote in his first post is pretty acurate. Now if only I currently had something that wasn't in the bottom bracket.

FYI, 'Buyer' Beware. Just in case anyone else is considering Derek.

Sorry bud, I don't think you handled the situation horribly, but definitely not correctly. I was pretty pissed at first because you put me in a pretty bad spot by not making a phone call and/or checking what you should have. Now I’m ok but I think other people should know about this. So he made a thread about wanting to do some work on the side for people. I PMed him and asked him if he would be “interested in doing a timing belt, timing idler pulley, timing tensioner (just the roller/pulley I think), water pump, thermostat, and accessories belt in my Audi S4.” PMs me back and says “most likely” and ask “what engine and manual or auto tranny” so he can get me a correct quote. I PM him back with the info. He PMs me back and says ‘he can do it’, ‘8.5hours=$225” I’m thinking to myself, great, I’ve been putting this off for a little bit to save up the cash to have a shop do it (~$700 in labor+$300 in parts=$1000) or to get my Talon up and running reliable so I can do it and have a second car while it’s down. Honestly I'm not %100 comfortable doing this on my DD with such and expensive engine so having someone else do it would be ideal. I can almost justify doing it myself for $700, for $500 that line starts to get blury. But for ~300 in parts plus $225 in labor, I can’t pass this up and can just drop cash on it right now. But for $1000 I’d have to wait a little bit and save up a little more money, so I should do it now. PM him back and say ‘Ok, let’s do this. We can figure out details for timing of the job later, but I will order parts on MONDAY morning and they should be here on Tuesday afternoon. As soon as they get in I will call you and we can set something up’ These PM’s all took place on the evening of Thursday the 4th and the morning of Friday the 5th. I order the parts on Monday morning just like I said I was going to. I get home from work around 6 and see a PM that says “Because of x, y, z I don’t feel comfortable/can’t do this job.” The PM was at 5:55. I called him and he said when he original gave me the quote he wasn’t at work and just had someone look up the times. When he finally got to work/and talked to some people about the job, he found these things out. 1)Don’t fucking say your going to do a job and don’t do it. I understand why you don’t want to do it. And as I stated on the phone, no offense, but if someone doesn’t feel comfortable doing a job I don’t want them doing it anyways. 2)If you do agree to a job, know what the fuck you say you are really getting into. 3)Use the god damn phone. I gave you my phone number in the very first PM in case you needed to get a hold of me, oh maybe for something like this. Worst part of this is I get this nagging feeling the technical reasons were just excuses and he saw the ‘real’ labor involved and didn’t feel he would make enough money off of the job. It’s a water pump/t-stat that calls for 6.5 hours, it’s not going to be an easy job. Doing some pretty simple research, as I'm sure he did, without the tool but following the service manual procedure, you can get it close, but might be 1/2 a tooth off on timing, making the car down on power, get worse gas mileage. There is no real chance of damaging the motor if you do everything right. Now I have these parts that can either sit around, or I just have a shop do it now on the good old credit card? Sorry, maybe I am still a little pissed. I just love going into credit card debt to pay it off later when I didn’t have to. Wait, I didn’t do anything wrong, I’m not sorry. Karma’s a bitch, I’m sure you’ll have some $500 hit that will set you back worse than this is going to me. Cliff's Notes: Derek agreed to do a job without looking at what was involved, I ordered the parts, Derek backs out of his agreement to do the job once he sees the complexity of a DOHC V-engine t-belt and a 6.5hour water pump job. God forbid either of those be 'hard' things to do. I have $300+ in parts sitting here with my thumb up my arse trying to figure out what to do.

Lol, that guys probably ~6' tall.

Funny, I was almost going to ask if you still had yours in my last post. Yeah, I still got it up on jackstands. Kind of debating on what to do with it.

Wish I would have been able to get a hold of you sooner Drew! I already got the work done. Like you said, the sooner the better. Would have loved to been able to give your Dad some of my insurance companies money so he can modify that CTS-V. I'll keep them in mind if I ever need any other window work done.