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[QUOTE]Originally posted by WIKDVNM: [QB] Please keep in mind this happened about 3 years ago and still today every chance Mike gets he runs his mouth or types comments about me.. I had made a agreement with a mutual friend a while ago to stop the drama so I kept my mouth shut.. but because of some resent events and the dozen PMs I got off here since last night.. I have no issues FINALY telling my story. So let’s start off with my former 99 Cobra… The car went to get tuned and when I left I thought I lost my radiator… I shut the car off at first signs of coolant smell so I wouldn’t get any damage form over heating… So I took it back to Apex and was told it was my radiator so I have them order me a new one and then found out it was the canton tank that split not the radiator but since it was all apart I had them put the new one in….. When I left the shop the car started to over heat.. So I turned around and brought it back…. They didn’t burp the system correctly… so after they fixed it I went to leave again and the same thing happened so I pulled over on a rest stop and called Mike.. He told me if I could fix it to go ahead… Another Mike came out to lend a hand and let me use some of his tools… so then I took it back and left it over night… when I came back to pick the car up it drive great but on the freeway the sleeve for the power pipe came off (George drove out to the side of the freeway with me and fixed it)… we got that fixed and I was on my way… I brought it back to have the canton tank put back on and on my way home I was on the freeway.. 2 radiator hoses came off and before I could react the car starting to ping and shut down.. Luckily I got off the side of the freeway without getting hit… when I went to turn the car off the motor seized… I called Mike furious and he said he would have it towed back and torn apart to see what was damaged and he would pay to have it replaced… Well 2 months went buy.. 4 months went buy and I kept getting the blow off that they didn’t have any lifts open.. Then come to find out Mike had them move my car in and out of the shop with no coolant and a blown head gasket… comeplety destroyed the block and heads (not the shops fault since Mike told them to do it) 6 Months went buy with nothing but excuses and same threat as always “I am going to pay for a new motor, you need to be patient” then he told me he didn’t have the money to replace the motor… 8 months go by and still the car sites… paint scratched to hell and the interior covers in dust… I would get call after call from people asking me why I would put up with this.. I just said I wanted to see if Mike would keep his promise (remind you I was making car payments and insurance payments through all this) I then took a part time job at Apex on my days off hoping I could get the car on a lift and I did.. They guys got the motor pulled on 2 days and torn apart... I had the heads checked and was told they were warped beyond repair… I confronted Mike and he said he was working on a surprise because I waited for so long. He then tried to get me to use my site to gain business for his shop, when I refused to do so I was told they couldn’t afford to pay me part time and had to go.. I left with a smile. I am glad I did it because I learned a lot of dark secrets about Mike while there.. Gave me the opportunity to check and study on the BS he feed me on my Cobra. 9 Months went buy and I called fired up because now my Family was harping on me.. Mike said he was working on getting a built motor from CHP for free for my troubles…. So I waited and then a little birdy called me and told me I needed to call CHP for myself because Mike was talking a lot of crap about my car… so I did and NO ONE had a clue what I was talking about… Mike had lied to me…. I then talked to one of the other partners and told them the story, he said he would get one Mike about it… 11 months go by…. I called and said I was looking to sue for all the BS.. Mike then said he got the motor and was trying to get me a KB so I would be totally satisfied and also magazine article on the build…. So I called KB and again they had no clue…. Come to find out Mike was trying to sell his portion of Apex to the other partners and closing down Surplus computers and I was told he never planned on replacing the motor but going to leave it to the other partners… Then Mike was forced out of the business by his partners. Ok so this has been an entire year my car sat at Apex while Mike feed me all this BS.. SO I called the new owner and said I was in the process talking to an attorney about my options to sue… Steven asked what they could do to make me happy.. I finally had enough and told his brother in-law he could buy the car for XXX amount and Steven stepped up and purchased the car form me…. After all this Mike went out of his way to talk as much trash about me and his made up story about why the cobra sat in the shop for so long it got pathetic and he was banned from our site and the drama really hit the fan…. Steven had to step in and kill it.. or al least tried.. We all Know Mike as “It’s never my fault”.. Sad a grown adult can’t take responsibility for his one actions and BS. So I find out Mike is telling people the reason the car sat for so long is because of my financial probs (Had none) and that my girlfriend at the time now wife was feeding me BS… The ass started talking trash about my family… Yes FAMILY’; who had nothing to do with this… I called him on it and he went off on how immature he was to go that far and he apologized but then again it kept going and his stories changed again… That’s the true story and you don’t have to believe me.. Feel free to talk to my family and ask them what Mike did…. He is hated in my family more that any one else. That’s the short version of the story. To defend the guys in the shop.. Everyone who worked there were cool and hard workers the thing that killed that would be how Mike would tell someone to come in on a certain day and not tell Chris.. This would happen all the time… (Guys showed up who lived 2-3 hours away… What do you tell them?) Chris didn’t know about it so he didn’t order the parts… Mike would call Chris yelling at him (Chris put the phone on speaker for all of us) demanding the car get done in a day (even if it was a few days worth of mods) so the guys would have to rush causing some things to fail or the car would sit because the parts were not ordered.. Or they would have to stop what they were doing to work on this car causing the other car not to be done on time.…(Not only that but every time we tried to order parts all the CC were maxed out) That’s not the shops fault it’s the person telling people to come in and not letting the guys know… Poor Chris some days would be so stressed out because if things like this he would pull his hair out and just want to leave…. Which it understandable… When the partners took over things started to change and the shop turned around.. Unfortunately it was too late and I wish them all the best of luck! So what does Mike do.. Gets a job as a sales guy, was asked to leave and starts another shop… I won’t comment on the guys who work there because I don’t know them but well read above… People like that don’t change.. Hell he still makes crap up and talks about me to his followers all the time. Tunes cars with mail order tunes that AED has had to fix at least 5 that I know of. lol.. Hell not to mention 5 of our club members who got “Random phone call from TPS incur aging them to go to there show” all 5 asked to have there numbers removed from there list. If he has all these cars going why do they have to hit up a call it’s.. I have never heard of anyone doing that.. I can see e-mails but Craig’s list and phone calls… Sad thing is I got over this but he still has to talk his made up trash about knowing everything in my life even though he doesn’t know shit about it…. I know Mike is reading this.. Mike if you would only shut up and worry about your own life instead of those who are successful in life, work and car club you name would be forgotten… But I think you feed off this BS only to run your mouth a little more every day… If any of you question the truth if you see my Wife, Mom, Sister or my 91 year old Grandfather there ask them the story.. They wanted him in court. With all that being said since I banned him off our site and our club moved on life has been good.. Successful, married, Saw the light and went to AED! BTW the dyno at TPS is the dyno from Apex… Note for the grammar police… I am sick, tired and I have to work tonight so please excuse the typo’s [/QB][/QUOTE]
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