Even worse that I imagined..... BEWARE ROBERT TAU AUTOMOTIVE, PENSACOLA FL
They went joy riding and wrecked it!!! F**K Me!! I called on the second day and was told Robert has left for the weekend and was on a flight... rutroh.... OK went to pick it up and they had it parked in a dirt pile..... COVERED with dirt.... I mean it looked like it had been offroading or mud bogging!!!!!
Walked up to it and the front end is smashed up and the spoiled hanging........ Then the mechanic came out and tried to look surprised... I don't know what happened.... ARRRRGHHH
They had parts still laying on the drivers seat with a greasy bathtowel.. The drivers floor was full of dirt leaves sticks..... greasy hand prints all over the doors... the fuse panel still laying in the passenger seat.. I went OFF when the mechanic tried to play dumb.... I immediately saw bits of chipped off paint laying on the ground and a couple small broken bezel parts in front of it and noticed the spoiler had been ripped half off and dirt packed up into the radiator inlet..... and the front license plate area cover smashed in and the bumper cover all crushed, broken bezel on the parking light..
Then I turned the key on and sure enough there was 2.7 miles on the trip odometer, the radio was tuned to a station, the seat had been moved up and the rear view mirror had been lowered (the mechanic was smaller than me). When I dropped it off I had to pull the ECM fuse to shut down the engine and disconnected the battery, plus the radio was off... This resets the trip odometer, and clears all the radio stations and defaults the radio to the low end of the dial (with NO reception)...
Then the mechanic tried to snatch my keys out of the car...........
Bastards!!! I called the police and they came but has I figured since it was on private property they wouldn't even file a police report. I even asked the very curt cop if he would file that there are broken body parts and paint chips laying on the damn ground right in front of the car!! Nope he was kinda an ass... I did get a "blue sheet" with a number on it from his partner. FWIW.
Called my insurance and reported it and called the credit card company to dispute the charges (they never had me sign anything, including the mandatory check boxes on the repair order OR EVEN the credit card slip... PLUS to add insult to injury they sure did charge me for the horn contact they broke..... $300.00 charge for a dang lock cylinder replacment. ARRGGHH
It's gotta be the HotRod Karma Gods displeased with me taking something I shoulda done myself to someone else to do......... cuz I just didn't want to be bothered with it at the moment...