Ok, I took my car down the shop to check out my Acura TL 99' because I was having some kind of transmission problem. They told me it would cost $200 to look at it to find out the problem. I said Ok. This was last Friday. Today, I drove back to the shop to see what the problem was and he was saying "This need to be replace, and changed to get ur car fix will be $1900" At first I was surpise by the price but I'm like I dont have much choice to tell them to put it all together to pay everybody around to look at it. So I said OK FINE. Then I called my friend who called his local performace shop and they told him the 99' Acura is known to have that problem and that they might fix it. So I called Acura and sure enough they would fix any transmission problem on the 99' Acura TL up to 100,000 since it " was a known ACURA problem". So, I called back the body shop only 30mins later and they told me they have dont alot of work on it and have ship a part out and would cost me $1300 to get it out! WTF it has only been 30mins and they want $1300 to just get put it together, if I had told me earlier to NOT DO IT it would have only cost $200 to get it out. So what can I do to get my car OUT? to the dealership. Since some of the parts are out of my engine. I would be willing to pay $400 to put it together/looking at it but not $1300 . HELP!
Call Akins Army or whatever it's called nowadays. My company was once wrongly accused of damaging an engine on a car, and we told the person there was no way we could have done that damage with the work we performed. The car had 200,000+ miles on it and just died basically of old age. But we were the last ones to touch it. The customer had absolutely no legal grounds to sue us for it, but she called the local consumer's-justice news hotline and got herself a brand new engine installed free of charge.
Tell them you'll notify everyone under the sun about their shady business practices... to include but not limited to all major news channels in Houston (Akin's Army, Marvin Zindler, Wayne Dolcefino, etc), the Better Business Bureau and the Texas Attorney General to name a few.
Man have been calling Akin's Army 713-771-5772 since 11am and it just ring ring ring ...no message or anything?
Ask them for a signed repair order. If you never signed any kind of authorization form, then you have a case. If you did, you are basically screwed. What body shop is it? I probably know them.
AA Transmission around 1960 area they just called me over the phone I never signed any paper work, so you think I should be able to just pay the $200 to have them put it back to get my car out. I mean shoot is not even a major problem Acura said they just need to replace something.
