I HAVE BEEN DONE HORRIBLY WRONG BY Dave-Co!!!!!!! I put a great amount of trust in Dave and paid him a lot of money, to get this???
I came home with very much less then I paid for, had one of the worst experiences in my life when it should have been one of the best, GOT LOOSE CRAP PARTS BACK THAT WERE NOT NEAR AS GOOD OF CONDITION AS WHAT I SENT (WHEN I WAS GUARANTEED MY STUFF WOULD BE MY STUFF), found things were not right within five minutes of being at his home, seconds after meeting Dave I asked if those were my parts laying on the floor and told yes they are, picked up one front arm the first one I picked up and right away I knew it was not my ball joint, Dave sees the look on my face (I had not said a word about the ball joint yet) and defensively tells me that I had sent him a loose ball joint and he gave me another one (Dave never mentioned any of this to me until that moment, I sent him loose crap and he does not say one word not one until the day I get there?), I defensively tell Dave all the parts I went through and that I had cut up a set of mint arms from my wife's pilot for those ball joints, Dave then changes his story and right away tells me that my ball joint must have gotten damaged when welding and if I was not happy with the one he gave me he would get me another one, I started to look at my other ball joints and he right away very defensively tells me if I am not happy he does not want to do my kit, all of this within 5 minutes of being at his home and right after I had stayed up just about all night and driven almost 800 miles to get there. He wanted me there at 12:00 noon, I got there at 12:08. Dave was sitting in his garage waiting for me when I got to his house.
Dave Guaranteed me up and down that those were my ball joints, the ones I had sent and that he had set them all to the side and kept them separate just like I had asked him to, Dave told me that he does not do that for anyone he just did it for me, Dave said that he tells people that it is the luck of the draw what they get back he does not keep peoples parts separate. I did not get to take a super close look at all my ball joints like I wanted to but I did feel them as he was talking to me and they all felt loose the stud moved around in the socket very easily so I knew they were not mine.
I was so freaked out at what had just happened and I had to make a quick decision under a very quickly rising stress level, if I called Dave on the ball joints I was basically going to be calling him a liar and would probably leave there without who knows how much of my stuff. I decided to go ahead and unload my frame, what could I do he had all my money for the kit and best quality heims + my rear shocks, all paid for in full.
So we get my frame unloaded and Dave starts to work on my power steering, I am just standing around getting more and more upset, I start to look at my parts again and realize that none of my swing arms front or rear have weld in threaded bungs for the heims to screw in to, I pick one up and see that there is a cheap little nut welded in the end of the front upper and lower swing arms and the rear upper swing arms have a piece of tubing with a little nut welded in for there heims to screw in to, at this point I can not take it and I blow up, I explain to Dave very loudly that I am not a rich man and that I sacrificed so very very much to get his kit and then I get there and things are not right, I tell Dave that I am not happy and that I will just load my shit and leave, I was so upset I was crying I just could not help it, Dave right away tells me to calm down that he will do what ever needed to make things right. I had only been there for around 30 minutes or so when all of this happened. Dave then asks me what is wrong and I tell him about the bungs, Dave tells me that he no longer uses the bungs that they are not needed, I tell him I paid for threaded weld in bungs and that I knew that my kit was supposed to have them, not cheap little nuts. Dave tells me that no one gets weld in bungs on his kits and that he must have made a special deal with me and agrees to put weld in bungs on my parts. I calm down and decide to stay, he gets back to work but keeps asking me if I am OK. Dave works on my power steering for a few hours giving me time to calm down and then we leave to go and buy the weld in threaded bungs for my parts. At the store where we are buying the bungs I notice that Dave is not buying the bungs for my rear upper swing arms so I pick one up a tell him don't we need these for the rear uppers, Dave tells me right there in the store that he is not redoing the rear swing arms. I will not even try to put in to words how I felt at this point but it was not good.
The rest of the day and evening at Dave's was just me not feeling right at all, I was shaking and very close to just falling apart. I tried not to show it but I am sure it was obvious. After getting to my motel that night I called my wife and completely fell apart, I did not eat that night and only got an hour or so of sleep.
Everything I have noted above all happened on Friday 3/20/2015, my first day at Dave's home and my first time meeting Dave in person.
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