dont take your I2 to small shops!!

[cheesie]

so i go to this shop to have my splash guards installed
i give them the instructions paper to follow but they ignore it n try to do it their way... luckily i was there to stop them and tell them how to do it since i read the instructions
i hear they lower cars but i kinda think bout it since they cant read instructions..
2 months later ( today ) i go bak since i cant find another place that lowers cars, and have some tanabe's put on my car
i leave it at 10 am then go bak at 3 since they havnt calld me back and there on the last tire!!!
when there done they put down the car the front tires are lifted!!!!!! so they fixed the problem an hr later....4:30 ( i had work at 4:30 so i calld n said i was gonna be late )
they misplaced a part on the top of the front shocks.........dumbasses finally realized that....
as soon as i was leaving i hear really really bad noises on the front driver side shock ( like misplaced or hittin something)
so i call the place as i drive to work and mentioned that... i told them i was goin tm since i had work
i was expectin rubbing but not on literarly every single 1'' high small ass bump on the street.... it didnt even sound like rubbing
after work i chek n find that the nut on the top of the shock is loose!!
it wasnt rubbing, the shock was loose n those noises didnt sound good
the passenger side was tightnen but i would hear a lil sound once in a while

those stupid guys didnt follow instructions again!
im going bak tm and having them tightnen the nuts but now im just scared that they misplaced everything by the top part of the front shocks ( readers that have installed their springs know what parts they had to take off to put the springs)

can you guys give me advise...n ill give u one right now...


dont go to shops that have never worked on I2's before or dont read instructions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




maybe i should just go to a honda dealer and them chek the whole suspension for me ( even if i didnt hear anything from the bak shoks, but still i dont think they did a good job either)

[Cobb]

Man, how do they stay in business? It should take 4 hours tops 200-250 dollars. This is one of many mods tuners do and really anyone or shop should be able to do it. YOu may need to rent a spring compressor, but any shop that has replaced a strut should already have this.

Yeah, its a unique sandwich of parts for our struts. My problem was that I could not get the two bolts that holds the strut to the steering kunckle with hand tools and had to get my local shop to hammer them down as I kept getting a knocking sound under 35mph.

[nursemike]

Common sense (like reading directions) isn't so common anyone.

[cheesie]

nvm i take it bak.....

i went bak to the shop today after i got off work n complained
first they tightned the passenger's side nut that was way loose and a guy from the shop came with me to test drive the car
it worked a lil but i drive on a lot of bumps n stuff like that so the sound could come up.. it did , but just a little
we went bak to the shop and the guy who did my springs yesterday was there and he said he knew what the problem was
he got the whole sandwishh shocks and how to set them up he just needed the spring conpressor thing to tighten the middle nut all the way( the thing he didnt really do yesterday)
he got the nut tightnen all the way and put everythihng bak together.... we go for a test drive again and it work! no more messed up sounds!
so i tell them to do the same thing to the passenger side to be safe( even thou the passenger side didnt really make sounds)
all they needed was the stupid spring compressor ...( lazy fools)
and yes they had a little trouble attaching the strut and the wheel thing ( same as cobb) they just would try to push it in and hammer it ( made me feel uncorfortable and hurt me in the inside haha) but then they got it... they looked closer inside and saw some white dots and something had to go in between and watever watever
now the car is good
new problems arised.. i cant put back the plastic things under the hood that cover the shoks nuts... they dont feel like they go in right
and when i turned on the lights at nightime the right one wasnt on ( the drivers bulb)
10 mins later i chek again and it workd.... dont know wat hapend there

i hope nothing big comes up regarding my suspension system

ps the car looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay sicker!!!!!!!!!

[Cobb]

Nothing like having 2 nuts. I had to get a long handle 17 mm wrench or was it 14 to reach under the windshield cowl to tighten up that top nut. The first one you want to bottom it out on the shaft of the shock. I cant remember the parts, but I position everything upside down on the bench in the order it came apart.

[cheesie]

Nothing like having 2 nuts. I had to get a long handle 17 mm wrench or was it 14 to reach under the windshield cowl to tighten up that top nut. The first one you want to bottom it out on the shaft of the shock. I cant remember the parts, but I position everything upside down on the bench in the order it came apart.



yeah the problem i had was cause they didnt bottom out the one on the shaft of the shock.
thank god they fixed it otherwise i wouoldve had to go to the dealer and get charge extra

[oscarfinley]

Sorry for reviving this thread. Just want to share my own story here:


Back in about 2010, I was driving an Insight 2004. It had barely 80K miles on it, but it was a piece of crap, After the fourth time, i realized that it's enough and went car shopping while the the auto was in one of auto repair shops here in our place (being fixed). I talked to the mechanic - a guy who'd fixed it several times and i liked his service - and he told me the issue was a belt of some sort or other.Few days later, I get a call from my mechanic. He explains that while they were fixing the belt, they found that there was an issue with the water pump that made it so that if the pump wasn't replaced, it would almost surely break the newly-replaced belt within 5 or 10 miles of driving. The papers were signed. The dealer was a mile or so from the mechanic's place. It would have easily made it over to the dealer without the belt breaking. But I'm honest, I wanted to do the right thing, so I called the Honda dealer and explained the issue. They flipped out on me, demanded that I fix the problem. When I countered and said "hey, the papers are signed, if I had a problem with the truck I just bought, it's my problem. I'm sorry this happened, but I honestly didn't know about it when I signed the car over to you." They yelled & screamed, and finally threatened to not sign the title to my new truck over to me (apparently that hadn't been done yet.) I called mechanic, who told me he'd be glad to tell the Honda dealer that neither he nor I knew about the water pump issue until well after the deal had been done. No dice, the dealer more or less told him to screw off when he called. I still wonder if I should have refused and seen if they really would have not released the title to my new truck. Had they dealt with the issue without the yells and the threats, I probably wouldn't remember it so clearly now, almost 20 years later. As it is, I felt ripped off then, and still do now.