new wheels.....shop damaged car!

[maxhunter]

Have them make it right...the way it was before they lifted it and damaged it.
It may be slight but it wasn't that way when you took it in. Most places are bonded or insured for that very reason.

Originally Posted by Stormyone

what is b.s.?

The stuff that comes from the back end of a bull......and the way some folks treat your car.

[Stormyone]

Originally Posted by maxhunter

Have them make it right...the way it was before they lifted it and damaged it.
It may be slight but it wasn't that way when you took it in. Most places are bonded or insured for that very reason.




The stuff that comes from the back end of a bull......and the way some folks treat your car.

thanks for clarifying...

[BlownSS]

Originally Posted by Lucky SOB

Make sure your door jam gaps are even...

They are! Thank God!

Originally Posted by maxhunter

Have them make it right...the way it was before they lifted it and damaged it.
It may be slight but it wasn't that way when you took it in. Most places are bonded or insured for that very reason.

Im taking it back to the dealer thursday morning for an estimate to get the damage fixxed. Will decide on what will make me happy after i get the estimate done. It mostly made me mad that they blatantly did not treat the car well and then played it off like it was my fault for expecting that they could do this without damaging my car....

[PQ]

I've had mine on no less than 6 lifts at 6 different places and NONE of them did it that way. I can't tell you where the proper lift places are for this car on a lift, but I've jacked mine up many times already and it's really not hard to find. (Even though I had to call a former member to make sure. lol)

[PQ]

Actually, if you look at the manual on this. It's gonna tell you to do it under the rocker panels at certain points but for a large lift pad it won't work well. So if this guy followed the GM manual, he's doing it right.

BUT, common sense tells you NOT with large lift pads. Again, I don't know where the points are for lifting the whole thing, but I have been lifting the whole front with a pad and using the large cross member on the frame, in front, and the suspension arm joint in the rear, with the jackstands in a different spot. I'll try to get a pic, since mine is on stands now.

[acamellis]

Absolutely not!!!
I'd be so pissed!
I've personally put it on a lift at my dad's shop and the pads go on the frame which is just on the inside of those rocker panels that guy just F$%#d up!

Wonder how many he's ruined...

[rolnslo]

Sooooooooo, how do the new wheels look on the car?












The art of distraction works well sometimes. Hopefully (this time) it just lessens the pain you want to inflict on the idiot that screwed up your Camaro. :slice:


I'm sure the dealership and the shop will make it right and you can put this behind you. Just make sure you tell everyone you know where not to go.

Kind of reminds me when my best friend in high school's dad went through the roof at the shop manager when they insisted that they knew what they were doing when they pulled his '59 El Camino on the rack for an alignment. The thing had a built 455 big block and enough torque to snap your neck. He was told that shop policy prevented him from driving it onto the rack - even after warning them about the torque. Yep, they sure knew what they were doing...the guy driving it hit the gas just a little too hard going up the ramp and shot the car off the other end. Good thing my friend's dad was planning to start a restoration on the car that summer. Cars can be fixed...hopefully not on your dime though.

[BlownSS]

Here are the new wheels !!!!

[Russell James]

I'd have punched that MF'r in the face. That rocker panel and body seam is not the lift point.

The lift point is right behind there. In front of the rear tire, look under there and behind the rocker panel is a reinforced flat spot. You'll see two round holes and an oval hole between the two round holes. Looking in those holes you can see that it is a reinforced area - two layers of steel thick. You flip up the hoist pad ___/ , and lift it there.

Every Camaro I've seen lifted on a hoist, the pads are flipped up and lifted by the reinforced area behind the rocker, not leaving the pads flat and smashed against the plastic rocker panel and body seam.

[PQ]

This is the way I currently do it.









The manual says do it here. But I'd only do it this way with a scissor jack
that will not touch the rocker panels.

[Alfieboy]

THAT right there is so..so...so...WRONG..

Its BS

That lift will extend to reach the lift points of the car,..or even from regardless.

That right there is a inexperienced shop as well as a poor and lame ass manager.

PERIOD.

Ive run shops in VA,that would NEVER HAPPEN!

Rick
Midway Towing

[maxhunter]

PQ, how do you get the drivers side tires off with it like that!?! Looks like a pita to change oil without making a mess!
Great Pics...

[iPODFAN11]

On GM Service Info, it shows the front pads flat on the big "torque box" (so they call it) right behind the front wheels. The rear goes on the large flat spot, right on the other side of the pinch weld, with a short raised pad. ___\

[PonyKiller74]

Originally Posted by guiLT

X2

Lets see the pictures and then flame some more.

ummm.... x 3...ect.