fu@K, Sh!+, CR^P! DAMAGE!!!!

[NAlude]

Hello,

I HAD to sign up when I saw this. "Serebo1" Posted about Calling Lance Coren.

I want to know how you know him...that’s my uncle. I help him with his appraisal business.

But to the owner of the Elise. I feel bad...I don't know the sadness to that extent, but I have a Fully-built N/A Honda prelude and I had it re-painted a 3 Stage pearl white...then I had to take it to a shop 1 week later, and they scratched it ALL the way down to the primer about 24" long. Ya, I was PISSED. So, now I stand about 5 feet away from it where-ever I go. Its unfortunate, but I guess you have to do what you have to do!

Hey, you should give my uncle a call, he can/will help you out!

Office: 559-299-0429
Business Cell: 559-908-5008

We are in Central California.

Cheers!

[Serebo1]

Originally Posted by NAlude

Hello,

I HAD to sign up when I saw this. "Serebo1" Posted about Calling Lance Coren.

I want to know how you know him...that’s my uncle. I help him with his appraisal business.

But to the owner of the Elise. I feel bad...I don't know the sadness to that extent, but I have a Fully-built N/A Honda prelude and I had it re-painted a 3 Stage pearl white...then I had to take it to a shop 1 week later, and they scratched it ALL the way down to the primer about 24" long. Ya, I was PISSED. So, now I stand about 5 feet away from it where-ever I go. Its unfortunate, but I guess you have to do what you have to do!

Hey, you should give my uncle a call, he can/will help you out!

Office: 559-299-0429
Business Cell: 559-908-5008

We are in Central California.

Cheers!

You guys do great work! Welcome to the board and I feel your pain with your new paint job. Regards to your uncle.

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Originally Posted by Serebo1

You guys do great work! Welcome to the board and I feel your pain with your new paint job. Regards to your uncle.

Have you used our services before?

We recently did a 04' Elise Red/Tan.

It sat for a month and some rats made a nest inside the intake filter, and when he started it, it sucked them up into the chamber. Not a good thing. I don't know if it was anyone from here?

[Serebo1]

Originally Posted by NAlude

Have you used our services before?

Yes. You have a PM - don't want to jack Q's thread.

[nugg_dawg]

Originally Posted by delise

And I think to modify the demo of the average Fark member, 20ish - 30ish not middle aged, white midwest, college educated, in the computer biz , IT.

So that is why so much hate I guess, bunch of frustrated youngish geeks living with mom in the middle of no where, of course they are going to hate anything that is unique or faster than their Honda Accord.

You know thats the impression I was getting while looking at that site.

Bunch of zit faced 30 yr olds living with mom in the basement. All the while wishing their imaginary g/f's would call them........Better yet, wishing anyone would call them.


John

[nugg_dawg]

Originally Posted by thump_rrr

I have come here from Modular Fords to read the full story.

I am in the minority of stang owners whose car is setup for road racing rather than drag racing even though I do more of the latter.



Regards,

Peter

Hey Peter,

You mean you actually make right turns?

Welcome!


John

[smoseley]

Originally Posted by dsgrntld187

BTW, any Audi owners ?

Me.

[ZJChaser]

this is great. I've been watching links to this post pop up on all of the other forums I'm on. It has finally circulated to pretty much all of them.

[Go4it]

It's on AutoBlog.com.

[Bedlam Bikes]

I was telling my wife about this last night and she told me the same thing happened to one of her co-workers last year.

The girl owned a (ahemmm...) Chevy Cavalier and it fell off the lift fowards and into a huge tool chest nose first. It then fell sideways onto the hood of a police cruiser that was in for service!! My wife didnt know what service station it was at. She is going to ask the girl today.

[ARZ]

That is such a bummer!!!

I know structure, and that car is JUNK.

Get another one, dont even bother with repairing it. It will be a waste of your time and the car wont be worth your piece of mind afterwards.

Push very hard to get your insurance company to total it. Buy it back for the salvage value and make it a full road race vehicle or sell it as a builder/racer.

I work in the aircraft industry and as a body man during college. A&P mechanics know how to repair Aluminum, Body shops DO NOT!!!

[dsgrntld187]

Originally Posted by transio

Me.

What kind?

How long will it take you to get money out of this? I guess it did just happen this week.. I'd be too impatient to wait for the settlement

[ADVANMAN]

I am truly sorry to see that happen. Why though were you replacing the ADVAN A048's with Goodyears. It looks like you had plenty of tread left and the F1's will only lower the performance level. "Stick" with ADVAN and you can't go wrong.

[qball]

Basically, the rain issue. During some rain recently here in FL, I was getting some traction loss and hydoplaning. Rain is so unpredictable here in FL. Plus I've had 3 different nails in the A048s.

Yes, the A048s are super sticky...

It wasn't a cost issue... I just did some of the research here on ET to see what others were happy with. Eagle F1s seemed to be getting good reviews.

[Icedog_16]

When you get the F1s (or a car for that matter ) I'd be interested to hear your take on them as I am one set of rear AD07s from possibly getting them. I assume that you're getting them on the house now. I know if it were my shop, that would be the least I could do after repairing/replacing your car.

[douche]

like the old saying goes, you get what you pay for..... Why in gods name would you ever take a sports car, especially a lotus to a rinky dink tire shop to have them install new tires? You are obviously well off, paid cash for a lotus and drive a porsche 911 but yet you decide its the best idea to take your car to a shop that specializes in ford minivans, what did you expect would happen? I'll tell you this much, if I ever owned a 50k+ sports car that is the last place I would even consider taking my car to for ANYTHING.

[LARRY]

Uh yeah. We got that point. About 2 million replies ago.

He made a mistake. He won't make it again.

In Los Angeles, we take our cars to authorized Lotus dealers for repair (Like South Bay Lotus) and tire places that have experience with Lotus cars (Like Globe Tire, Manhattan Beach).

[Crudson]

I thought we were having an amnesty on replying to childish nitwits.

[LARRY]

Nah. Especially one named douche.

[r0bb]

yeah I had to sign up after getting this link.

Cool cars everybody, I've seen a few around here (Connecticut)... they seem like they would be pretty fun at high speed around turns.

So yeah, anyway, sorry about that car falling off the lift situation. I hope everything works out in your favor. I would NOT want anything to do with that car after that. Its tainted. Everybody else made good points about the car and chassis/frame being all out of spec.

The gaps on the doors look kinda messed up on the pics, so obviously things are all bent up. With a regular car... eh, who cares. But this seems like a really special, lightweight, street legal factory race/super car. I would try and do my best to get them to replace it for a new car.

I purchased a brand new truck a few years back, and had somebody back into it with 2300 miles. $3k+ in damage, but they didnt buy me a new truck even though I felt I should get a new one since it was pretty much brand new. Then some idiots cut me off @ like 25k miles and caused 7k in damage to my front end. Not quite the same situation, but...

I am an expert on... nothing, but in my opinion, a car that needs that much body work, etc, I would be very worried they would overlook something. Its like getting rear ended from bellow. I don't see how they could fix some of that damage besides extensive body panel replacement and/or half-assed fiberglass repairs that probably wont last. If they do decide to repair it/fix it, make sure you are completely anal about it.. complain about paint not matching, gaps not lining up, the smoothness of the paint, etc. Repairing an 93 Chevy FWD POS might be ok, but for a car like this, which looks like it was in pretty good if not immaculate condition, should not have to play by the same rules as your average car.

People make mistakes I guess... and from what I've gathered reading this thread, due to the weight distribution and design of the car, lifting it can be really tricky. BUT... this guy actually went to the extent of leaving the manual out and making sur ehtey did it correctly, yet somehow they messed it up.

From my experience, people who work at tire places are not exactly the brightest of the bunch. Judging from those pictures, the guys seemed a lil bit older so they should of had a clue about what they are doing. But most local places around here hire some younger kids who probably arent even ASE certified to replace tires. Sometimes they seem like total M.F. morons! I didn't realize lifts were that dangerous.

and don't worry about those morons posting hatefull comments, screw them. They are just jelous and don't get it. To them, a real car is a 1980's RWD GM car with speakers good enough to play their all-time favorite white trash rock collection.

Good luck, I can't wait to hear how you resolve this situation. You should get a brand new car PLUS free tires for the rest of your life.

I would feel soooo bad if I owned a shop and something like this happened. I probably would never be able to work on anohter car again.

At least nobody got hurt or killed. But perhaps if somebody did, Darwins law would have justified it.

If I had this car, I'd take teh wheels off one by one in my driveway or garage and run the wheels back and fourth one by one to the shop.

One day, I will have a nice cars (not sure what yet), and I would be extremely nervous about somebody messing something up. Even with my regular , "nothing special" cars I'm worried about it.