Jay150
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Hello everyone I’m Jay and kinda new to the off road scene but not a green back. I’ve exhausted all my avenues, patience and don’t have any one else that can talk to about this. Even if I were to pursue were a civil case and win. I’d still get nothing. With that being said I’ll try to keep it short. All comments good, bad welcomed and thanked in advanced. Moderators if this is not allowed, please erase.
I purchased a F-150 crew cab back in February from an auction and decided to use as my donor truck. Truck was pretty much perfect besides some frame damage that was unnoticeable until you seen it or got in to an accident LMFAO but you get the picture. Shortly after a friend of the family recommended this fabricator. Let’s just call him “fabricator” for now. I did a little research and noticed that someone I follow and respect on IG had his truck built by this guy and endorses the fabricator all the time. So it was pretty much a done deal when the fabricator said we can make it even better.
**off the record** In no way shape, form am I putting blame on this IG personality. I am a big boy and hold myself responsible for not going with my better judgement and accept this as my fault if anything **back on the record**
I ended up talking to the fabricator for a few hours, signed a contract and there it was. I’d have a 1450 style truck within “6 months” or so I thought
Here is where everything went down hill. I’m a pretty busy guy so I appreciated the fact that the fabricator offered door service and had room in the shop so he could work on it “immediately” but sadly the truck sat outside for a little over a month. I do understand that things happen so I ignored this red flag. I can tell that this story is getting long so below are bullet points of everything going on to keep this post short. Again thank you for listening to my vent.........
-Sells me on a 30k race truck front clip to cab build with stock motor trans displacement and then try’s to change the project to a prerunner after we sold the stock front clip and bed, cut off all the stock mounts for the front suspension, spent all the money on “parts”
- Sold me some camburg 2.5 “trophy truck” 5x5.5 hubs which I found out later from a friend that they were not trophy truck hubs
- Sells me on a race legal cage but wanted to charge $2,800 more for the door bars and seat mounts to complete after agreement
- 41 days till project actually starts (not upset about that)
- Tube material took 44 days to receive after paid which was another red flag
- $2000 for 4130 upgrade which I’m okay with
- 7k and counting over the original agreed budget and still asking for more.
- 6 months later my cage still isn’t completed, I’m 47k and counting.
I have been saving this money for the last 15 years to make this dream come true for me and my family. I am super devastated and feel like I let my family down as well as myself. I have already tried asking for a partial refund and that I would take the truck else where but “All the money is gone, you will get everything we agreed to. Your just going to have to wait, this is how off road is” i know things happen but is it really how it is!? I think not. What are your thoughts. Please chime in.
I purchased a F-150 crew cab back in February from an auction and decided to use as my donor truck. Truck was pretty much perfect besides some frame damage that was unnoticeable until you seen it or got in to an accident LMFAO but you get the picture. Shortly after a friend of the family recommended this fabricator. Let’s just call him “fabricator” for now. I did a little research and noticed that someone I follow and respect on IG had his truck built by this guy and endorses the fabricator all the time. So it was pretty much a done deal when the fabricator said we can make it even better.
**off the record** In no way shape, form am I putting blame on this IG personality. I am a big boy and hold myself responsible for not going with my better judgement and accept this as my fault if anything **back on the record**
I ended up talking to the fabricator for a few hours, signed a contract and there it was. I’d have a 1450 style truck within “6 months” or so I thought
Here is where everything went down hill. I’m a pretty busy guy so I appreciated the fact that the fabricator offered door service and had room in the shop so he could work on it “immediately” but sadly the truck sat outside for a little over a month. I do understand that things happen so I ignored this red flag. I can tell that this story is getting long so below are bullet points of everything going on to keep this post short. Again thank you for listening to my vent.........
-Sells me on a 30k race truck front clip to cab build with stock motor trans displacement and then try’s to change the project to a prerunner after we sold the stock front clip and bed, cut off all the stock mounts for the front suspension, spent all the money on “parts”
- Sold me some camburg 2.5 “trophy truck” 5x5.5 hubs which I found out later from a friend that they were not trophy truck hubs
- Sells me on a race legal cage but wanted to charge $2,800 more for the door bars and seat mounts to complete after agreement
- 41 days till project actually starts (not upset about that)
- Tube material took 44 days to receive after paid which was another red flag
- $2000 for 4130 upgrade which I’m okay with
- 7k and counting over the original agreed budget and still asking for more.
- 6 months later my cage still isn’t completed, I’m 47k and counting.
I have been saving this money for the last 15 years to make this dream come true for me and my family. I am super devastated and feel like I let my family down as well as myself. I have already tried asking for a partial refund and that I would take the truck else where but “All the money is gone, you will get everything we agreed to. Your just going to have to wait, this is how off road is” i know things happen but is it really how it is!? I think not. What are your thoughts. Please chime in.