Lotsa bad scratches!
#1
Lotsa bad scratches!
Soo my brother bought a 08 GT/CS about 9 months ago, nice car runs smooth. About 3 months ago he decided to buy vinyl stripes for it, and have a guy who did vinyls put em on. Well the guy said it would be easy and he could do it no problem, unfortunatly my brother didnt search up these stripes he bought, and they werent pre-cut. Steve(guy who was gunna put stripes on) said it was still np.
So we got to pick up the car a few days later and he says, somethings not right. We come back another few days and he has completely ripped off the stripes(obviously ruined em cant be re-used). We ask why and he says he messed it up by doing something wrong(i wasnt there atm), something to do with the glue. So we took the car home feeling sad, but whatever.
We noticed a few scratches on the hood and etc. figured whatever we now knew to never take anything back to him. Now about 3 months allot more scratches have started showing up,(i guess he tried to buff em out) and ALL of them are past the base coat. The follow exactly where the stripes would have been so we know its not from random stuff, and at this point the whole car needs repainted. Or atleast the center of it, so what should we do? We paid steve about 500$ and supplied the vinyls ourself, he refunded 200$ even though he told AM(where we bought stripes) about this and they refunded him for the stripes but he never gave us the money for them either. Now were kinda in deep ****, so were thinking about pursuing legal actions to get him to pay for the stripes.
Any more details ill add later, thanks for readin, any advice on what to do on this pisspoor situation is welcome. Heres some pics of the dmg he did.
^^ This pic is glue residue that he didnt take off when he took the stripes off.
Same with below.
This is the only one thats not near the window, its near trunk. ^^
The black in most of them is window, its black cuz of tint.
So we got to pick up the car a few days later and he says, somethings not right. We come back another few days and he has completely ripped off the stripes(obviously ruined em cant be re-used). We ask why and he says he messed it up by doing something wrong(i wasnt there atm), something to do with the glue. So we took the car home feeling sad, but whatever.
We noticed a few scratches on the hood and etc. figured whatever we now knew to never take anything back to him. Now about 3 months allot more scratches have started showing up,(i guess he tried to buff em out) and ALL of them are past the base coat. The follow exactly where the stripes would have been so we know its not from random stuff, and at this point the whole car needs repainted. Or atleast the center of it, so what should we do? We paid steve about 500$ and supplied the vinyls ourself, he refunded 200$ even though he told AM(where we bought stripes) about this and they refunded him for the stripes but he never gave us the money for them either. Now were kinda in deep ****, so were thinking about pursuing legal actions to get him to pay for the stripes.
Any more details ill add later, thanks for readin, any advice on what to do on this pisspoor situation is welcome. Heres some pics of the dmg he did.
^^ This pic is glue residue that he didnt take off when he took the stripes off.
Same with below.
This is the only one thats not near the window, its near trunk. ^^
The black in most of them is window, its black cuz of tint.
Last edited by Deathdiesel; 04-12-2009 at 09:34 PM.
#4
Thanks, didnt think about it. Ill space it out to make it easier to read. Btw did you ever decide if you wanted to buy my rims?
Last edited by Deathdiesel; 04-12-2009 at 09:35 PM.
#5
So wait, your brother paid $500 for a guy to install vinyl leman stripes on his car??? Could have probably got the stripes painted cheaper, which may be a possibly with all these scratches you talk about. The glue will probably come off with goo-gone.
#8
Yea, it really is bullshit because we decided to be nice and only want half of what we paid for them to be put on in the first place. Because he worked for two days or so on it, and he was still a dick about it and never gave us our money back for the stripes
#11
I'd be so far PAST considering...I'd have been there and back already if I were you. I'd have also murdered the guy who did that, but I hear law enforcement isn't a big fan of that stuff, so you might leave that one out.
#12
Yea, the problem is all it does is put more stress on my mom because shes the only one who can deal with most legal issues, and shes already dealing with foundation issues on our house. And my dad cant do anything for another month until he gets back.
#15
#30
So you bought the stripes and paid to have them installed be put the strips on and tried to cut them with a razor when they were on the car I take it. On top of this he didn't give you a full refund. You need to go and talk with him about this.
As for the car I can't tell much from the photos. But from the few marks I do see most can be taken out by someone who knows what they are doing with a high speed polisher and some good products.
As for the car I can't tell much from the photos. But from the few marks I do see most can be taken out by someone who knows what they are doing with a high speed polisher and some good products.