[cho]

hi all, i recently went to a shop to take out my resonator

they do good work, but i wasn't sure about their welding, my friends go there and good work is done, so i inquired about taking out my resonator and getting it replaced with a pipe

they said sure, so i trusted them to do what i wanted

they were done, lowered my car and drove it out, didn't show me the welds or anything, didn't ask if i wanted my resonator back, i had to ask for it

right when i was about to leave, they told me to come back because the weld wasn't finished

drove around for a week with exhaust leak, went back to fix

fix took about 2 hours, picked up car, still leaked

looked under the car, ugly welds, they took off the hanger off the resonator and just left it on the resonator so my whole exhaust was sagging and rubbing against things


at this point i should of contacted them to fix it again, but if they did it wrong the first 2 times why would the third time be any better

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/603406_10151030881317515_310226208_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s480x480/542465_10151030880147515_1532617988_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/553774_10151036462992515_2120611143_n.jpg
didn't even weld the top
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/488174_10151036463027515_958780780_n.jpg


decided to go to the speed syndicate to fix my problem

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https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/561960_10151036462582515_759956219_n.jpg
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https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/185579_10151036462757515_1233366396_n.jpg
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https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10151036453442515

they did a great job, fit me in on their tight schedule, told me what they were going to do, showed me along the way, told me what to expect IF something were to go wrong

i will NOT be revealing where i originally got the weld done at, please do your research before doing any kind of welding work done

big thanks to Curtis at the speed syndicate for doing such great work!

also thanks to alex for working on a civic looool



GO TO THE SPEED SYNDICATE FOR WELDING!

[Energy]

Those first welds :rukidding:

[PJ]

Those first welds look like they were done by first-timer.. who's drunk.. and high.. :facepalm:

[godwin]

Looks like they used a stick welder.. let me guess "cash deal" too?

Those first welds look like they were done by first-timer.. who's drunk.. and high.. :facepalm:

[bloodmack]

damn, those welds look worst then my first welds. Did they do it with the exhaust mounted still?

[Matsuda]

it looked like my cat welded it the first time geeze, glad Speed Syndicate fixed it up for you!

[cho]

Looks like they used a stick welder.. let me guess "cash deal" too?

yeah cash deal

damn, those welds look worst then my first welds. Did they do it with the exhaust mounted still?

and not sure, but i didn't see my exhaust taken off at all ever so probably

[GoneGuru]

Why would you not reveal who did the first welds? If they did a shitty job, they deserve to be outed.

[CP.AR]

^ could be another vendor... don't want to piss the vendors off??

[k3lv]

LOL at those first welds. I knew it was bad but not that bad. That shit looks like a hella bad tumor.

The name of the shop that did those first welds is the same name of a Las Vegas hotel :)

[Berzerker]

They obviously tried to weld it overhead while still on the car instead of taking it off and doing it properly. Brutal welds.

Berz out.

[Gridlock]

Those are booger welds!

[Vale46Rossi]

LOL at those first welds. I knew it was bad but not that bad. That shit looks like a hella bad tumor.

The name of the shop that did those first welds is the same name of a Las Vegas hotel :)


Oh I stayed there on my recent visit to Vegas

http://0.tqn.com/d/hospitality/1/0/R/-/-/-/ARIA-Las-Vegas.jpg


Shitty hotel tho.

[dared3vil0]

I've done nicer welding than that, On my first try in a garage... Can you PM to me where you went?

[sekin67835]

Oh I stayed there on my recent visit to Vegas

http://0.tqn.com/d/hospitality/1/0/R/-/-/-/ARIA-Las-Vegas.jpg


Shitty hotel tho.

That is aria hotel for those who are too lazy google

[Vale46Rossi]

The logo was in the picture =P

They can't be that stupid =P

[mb_]

That's a weld? :seriously:

[Energy]

Hmm people say aria is good. Never been there myself but that's just terrible. Guess a refund isn't possible because of the cash deal.

[Shorn]

what's the point of your post that goes on rambling about how horrible and bad this shop welded your exhaust, then at the end you don't tell us the name of said shop?

:fulloffuck:

[SILVERBULL]

The public deserves to know who did that horrible weld job so they can avoid them like the plague (and then hopefully, they go out of business). Totally unacceptable.

[G-spec]

Curtis is a G when it comes to welding, he pulled some shit on my fenders all the shops in town I asked said couldn't be done without fuckin up and having to repaint my whole quarter panels.

[k3lv]

The public deserves to know who did that horrible weld job so they can avoid them like the plague (and then hopefully, they go out of business). Totally unacceptable.

energy posted it

[nabs]

sound clip of exhaust

[boatcaptain]

this vegas hotel in richmond will be closing down soon

[SpuGen]

Did that person even turn on the gas? :lol
Looks like Porosity. Then he tried to weld over it.


No gas = You can very clearly see the pores in the weld.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s480x480/542465_10151030880147515_1532617988_n.jpg

That's disgusting.

Makes me wonder if this person ever went through any formal training at all.
I know at BCIT they let the Autobody/Plumbers into the welding shop to learn how to Mig/Oxy+Fuel.

They either hired a bum, or someone who knew how to bullshit thier way through. Mig Welding is stupid easy. Point. Shoot. Move.

You would think at one point, the idiot looked at it and thought "Hey, this looks like shit. I should probably grind it down to hide it."

This person should be fired. Unless it was the owner. Then, well...:lol

[ilvtofu]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s480x480/542465_10151030880147515_1532617988_n.jpg

That pic gives me goosebumps :/
But yeah even your typical budget brake and muffler guy would do a way better job than that. I also don't get how they took that long to fix their weld the second time around. I got my whole catback done at muffler man a few years ago and it only took 2 hrs.
Shame on any shop that could let a customer leave with that monstrosity and charge for it.

[T4RAWR]

also agree that it looks like someone mig welded without gas on.

what a shit job.

[optiblue]

I've seen some pretty bad welding in my time, but this has to be one of the top worst welds. That should have never left the shop the first or second time. The craftsmanship of that weld is very sub par.

[jpark]

holy fuck lol

[El Bastardo]

Hall of Shame worthy

[monkeywrench]

It's not a Toomah! - YouTube

Brings me back to my high school years. My first weld was better than that.

[SpuGen]

Waiting for Aria's response.

[cho]

not gonna happen lol

[sonick]

omg gross welds. Somebody should link this to their fb lol.

[cho]

PICT0850 - YouTube

also them ripping my friends car after saying they "took it for a light drive"
(they didn't know about the dash cam)

[TjAlmeida]

They either hired a bum, or someone who knew how to bullshit thier way through. Mig Welding is stupid easy. Point. Shoot. Move.

If you just point shoot and move the welds are still going to be fairly shitty. Just cause its mig still need some motion technique... :suspicious:

[nabs]

^^^wtf wat did they say when u showed them this?? do they have a bunch of 15yo working there

[cdizzle_996]

^^I was going to say the same thing, some one forgot to turn the bottle on.

[Bender Unit]

PICT0850 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgZBdW45B-8&feature=plcp)

also them ripping my friends car after saying they "took it for a light drive"
(they didn't know about the dash cam)
The video didn't seem like they were rippping your friends car.
Car has a loud exhaust. Nothing seem to passed over 5000rpm. It indeed was a "light drive"
Unless he want them to just cruising at 50km & rpm stay under 3000.

Just my 2cents.
BU

[falcon]

Dosen't seem bad to me... looks like a pretty standard test drive to put a car through it's paces and make sure welds dont break/things don't rattle etc. etc.

If they were going WOT in every gear and doing a burnout it would be different.


If a customer came to me with a dash cam after we did some work and claimed that to be an "aggressive" test drive I would basically laugh them out of the store and tell them to take their future business elsewhere. Don't have time to deal high maintenance customers and bullshit like that.

[cho]

The shop denied driving it hard and when shown the dash cam, they installed his dual din for free for their "mistake"

[Mr.Money]

Ahaha.....

they knew their ass was on the line for driving a customers car hard...

dash cam ftw.

[falcon]

That's not "hard."

Seriously people... you get a performance upgrade and you don't expect a good test drive?

They likely installed the unit to get him out of there and keep him happy. Remember "customer is always right." Dosen't mean that was a hard/agressive test drive.

[Limitless]

That's my car in the video, and I didn't want to bash the shop here or anywhere else because I was happy with the conclusion of the situation after I messaged Aria about it.

Just wanted to make a few comments about the story though.. I was upset because of a number of things. I was never notified by them prior to the install that they would take my car out for a test drive. When my friend drove me back to the shop to pick up my car, I saw my car was parked in front of their shop and one of the employees was repeatedly revving the car over and over. The owner, employees and also their friends were crowded around my car with their cell phones out taking videos or pictures or whatever.
When they saw me get out of my friends car and walk towards my car they stopped and quickly shut off the car, which didn't give me a good impression of them. I asked if they test drove my car, the owner said no of course not, but another employee said yes. I asked them if they drove it hard and they said no of course not, they drove it very lightly.

When I went home I looked at the dash cam videos, and I was a fairly annoyed. One because the owner said they did not test drive it, but then in the video it shows him driving my car around. Second because it seemed like he drove it pretty hard even though his employee said they went on a very light drive. I did make a mistake though, because I came in with a quiet stock exhaust and in the dash cam video of their test drive it was already changed to an aftermarket exhaust that is obviously louder than stock. This made me think that the RPMs were a lot higher than they actually were, even though it's one of the quieter exhausts for the Z. (I didn't realize this until I rewatched the video recently after I had gotten used to the noise level) I gave them a message saying that I wasn't very happy with the dash cam video, and the owner replied with an apology and offered to install my double din for free since I wasn't happy.

I figured my car wasn't going to die from a drive like that, and the owner drives a heavily modded Z himself so there's no reason he would want to play around with my stock Z..

[HellaProperFit]

The shop denied driving it hard and when shown the dash cam, they installed his dual din for free for their "mistake"
The car was not drivin hard WHAT SO EVER, I think you and your friend are idiots. There was no "mistake" made! lol

[cho]

The car was not drivin hard WHAT SO EVER, I think you and your friend are idiots. There was no "mistake" made! lol

did you just miss the whole post before you?

[cho]

one of the employees have gotten a hold of me and in the process of giving me a refund

as i still stand they do good work, just don't go for welding unless you get the right guy to do it

[Mr.Money]

:suspicious: they got a brand new noob to weld your exhaust?

[Cman333]

Did you guys actually watch the video???

That was a VERY light drive. Wasn't near redline, no harsh starts, no tires chirping/screeching, no slamming on the brakes. I guarantee you, you bring your car to a mechanics for service they will give it a good rip because they need to make sure nothing is loose, rattling, leaks, etc.

Man, hate to see you guys ever get your car dynotuned. If you're bitching about revving 5-6k in a Z. Sorry, no sympathy on my end. I don't see anything done wrong with that test drive. I've met a couple guys from Aria, they all seem like decent people.

Any good shop would test the car before returning it to a customer. Last thing you want is having the customer pickup the car to find out there's an exhaust leak, rattle, alignment issue, etc etc. Although it doesn't make sense why they denied test driving the car. Your friend got a free deck install from a shop that didn't actually do anything wrong. So kudos.

[flagella]

That weld is so disgusting I almost puked. Looks like some kind of disease grew from that pipe.

[Akinari]

What the hell, my welds back in high school automotive class were better than that :pokerface: