Shop joyrides a 1,000 horsepower fox body, this is how it ended!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- All he needed was an alignment done, hard lesson learned.
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***THIS IS AN ONGOING SITUATION*** Under no circumstances (if you happen to know) try and find or mention who/where this was. Please be respectful of that. ALSO: The truck driver was NOT AT FAULT, he was on the street driving by, the car hit him!
Hey listen man, you are under no obligation to explain anything to anybody.
I wish I'd kept my big mouth shut😔
@@grandspringdale1564 all good buddy
I thought this was a joke! Don’t trust anyone
This is absolutely sickening! I hope that we’ll after all the litigation and investigations are over that the shops name is able to be noted so that people can steer clear of that place!
@@dannyc1657 looks like they're trying to take the high road so we'll never find out who that shop is
It doesn't matter if the car is worth 60k or 5k. That's that man's blood sweat and tears in that car. Hopefully it's salvageable and hopefully no one got hurt. God bless.
Well said
That is so well said
Facts
Salvagable!?!
F-That!! I want a new Clean shell to transfer my parts to!!!!!
@@martingatavaski1351 Exactly
As a tech in a dealership this is totally preventable. For the most part. I have had many custome high horsepower vehicles come in for this type of work and these vehicles are ALWAYS test driven by responsible techs. Never ever abused or disrespected. I am so sorry for this guy.
As a dealer tech as well, you are exactly right! I drove a modified z06 that the dealership lawyer owned one time to figure out what was going on with it. The lawyer told me to my face “drive it like I do, it’s the only way your going t see it act up.” We all new he beat the shot out of it. I went and drove it and at 130 the thing would act up like he said and I decided to wait for the foreman to drive the next day and I would watch the scanner. I’m not a fan a ragging on someone’s car. That’s the only time I have driven a car a little crazy. Driven many more performance cars and such and I drive them like a grandpa. If aggressive driving is required, I make the owner drive.
yeah i agree but who tests an alignment?
@@nafsucof anyone who is adjusting anything. It's good practice.
@@dickbrugh5562 yes,
I've seen some young tech get all Googlie eyed over a z06 or zr1/zl1 and when they take them on a test drive you know what's about to go down. We try to prevent it by limiting the young guys from getting those cars.
@@noahadams1264 I was one of those younger guys when this happened. I was only a few years out of the GM ASEP program though I was a little older. I was one of the few the lawyer trusted to drive it.
If there is a lesson that anybody can take from this video… it’s this… NEVER LEAVE YOUR CAR AT AN ALIGNMENT SHOP OR TIRE SHOP. Them fuckers don’t make enough to afford what you are leaving them and they don’t care.
Absolutely agree
You really underestimate the amount of money the alignment guys can make, the shops I know pay based on car flow not hourly like mechanics. But yeah, around here a lot of them are knuckle dragging dumbasses.
I take my hot rod to a private inspection garage rather than have the motor vehicle guys drive it down the testing facility. I remember I took my wife's car to the facility and the workers were in a circle revving the hell out of a mustang.
@@danielfernandes711 I had to learn the hard way. I took my CTS-V to get new tires put in… came back early and found the technician ripping gears down the road. I shit in his cheerios and the manager gave me the Mount and balance free but still. I didn’t appreciate it at all and now I stay with my car no matter what.
Dude , I can't agree with the stigma you are attaching.
I see worse from dealerships man!! Far worse.
I do agree that you shouldn't leave a vehicle worth your heart unattended, but that's any one stop service.
A competent garage did my MOT for my comp built defender,. I picked it up with a new rattle!
I asked them to do a oil dump while it was on ramp for MOT.. I was lazy.
Took a £50 a week apprentice to tell me they put wrong oil filter on and went for break with my landy running!! The owners denied it saying faulty housing.
Don't judge all guys working hard on low income... That's wrong man.
Keep your eyes on your prize!!
This video just popped up on my feed today and I am absolutely stunned. Shops that go out and Joyride vehicles just blows my mind. That is one of the most unethical things you can do when someone puts their trust in a shop with a car that has very high monetary and sentimental value. I run a business myself wouldn't dare of ever doing something like that.
Unfortunately, it's really common.
Wow, I'm at a loss for words, so sad that some shops have no respect for the customer
Tell me about it
“ it just went wide open throttle ‘ bull shit !!
@@nwanchorcertification straight liar fool lost control and can't own up
@@nwanchorcertification "yeah cars tend to do that when you floor it"
This is why I never bring my R33 skyline to any shops, I do my own servicing and repairs due to being burnt by shops, everytime.
This had me in tears and I believe in TEAM HEAVY CHEVY! Maaannnnnn I would be PISSED!
Wow! This story really hit home. I'm pretty self-sufficient car wise and can do just about everything myself. Except a proper alignment. I ALWAYS hate taking a high performance car to these 'shops' to get worked on because most of them are jerks that just use it as an opportunity to light up your car. I had an IROC Camaro in 1988 or 89 I had just repainted and took it to get aligned. The guy opened the drivers door into something and I had a nice big chip in the middle to remind me everytime I got in it. Another time I had a Plymouth Satellite I put a 440 and 4 speed in. It was my daily. Took it to get aligned at a national chain shop in Va. and I here the guy pulling my car in just winging the throttle for 2 minutes! WTF! So this is my best story. This happened in 1996. I have a 1971 Plymouth GTX 440 6bbl, original car 46k miles. I've had the car a long time and was going through the suspension, changed everything and needed an alignment. Went to Monroe muffler brake. I told the guy 'I'll drive my own car in , I DON"T want a test drive afterwards or anything. NOBODY drives my car but me.' So he starts with the 'You can't drive it into our shop, insurance forbids it, we need to test drive it to check the alignment, that's standard blah blah" I said I'll wait here while you do the work. I didn't even get a chance to pull the car in myself. There was some greasy looking young 20-something kid working on some young mother's shit box rusted out Mercury Sable in the bay. He was just finishing it up, I hear this big crash out front. Turn around and the the punk didn't even make it out of the driveway on his 'test drive' with this shitbox Mercury and ran smack into another car passing on the road. About 25ft.The kid calmly gets out, goes into the shop and gets a dust pan and broom and starts sweeping up pieces of the car from the road like he's sweeping up dirt out of the shop like it's nothing. I yelled at the manager 'Give me my fvcking keys now!' He said 'Why?' 'Look out there! You guys are a bunch of clowns!' He says 'Wow, I've never seen that happen before.' I took my keys and left.
Man you dodged a bullet right there!
When I bought my fox, I was 18 and worked at a ford dealer in a quicklane when I was 19. I had been with ford for only a few months and of course drove the fox regularly. We had a customer come in with a bran new truck for an oil change that another technician did. The customer came back not even a minute later because his truck was spewing oil from the oil filter. (double gasketed) The customer was so furious and didnt trust anyone anymore at the main shop. He was walking around with a manager and spotted my fox. He told the manager "if that car belongs to an employee, I want them to do my oil change and inspect the truck" And because of that, he was then a returning customer for the right reasons. Sometimes its hard to find the right tech to work on your baby. But take a look in the employee parking lot and it can speak volumes to how the people will take care of your baby with how well they take care of their own.
that is insane. I barely use mechanics but we have had the "do not let your employees hot rod my cars" talk. I feel so bad for the owner.
I feel for the shop owner as well.
@@match360 Yes unless it was the shop owner that drove his car.
Valet mode!! I ALWAYS put my cars into valet mode when leaving them anywhere. And I only leave them if I absolutely have to.
Unreal! Thank you Caleb, for this video. Really opened my eyes to things that can happen, if you’re not vigilant and aware of things that can go wrong, leaving your car with just ANY shop. Sorry for Boomer! I’m here for him, if there’s ANYTHING I can do to help him get his car back to his liking. Can’t begin to imagine what he’s feeling at the moment. We work many hard and hard hours, to have our cars, the way we want them.
Well said
I will tell a little story about when I was a Ford technician years back. Someone brought in a 2003 Cobra, completely customized like this, a race car. It came for front end noise they were having trouble tracking down. No biggie glad to help, sometimes a second set of eyes isn't a bad thing going that fast (plus a lot of us knew the builders and they would bring stuff to us for alignments and odds and ends things, a common courtesy). Whelp I got about 2 blocks away from the shop pulled over called my boss and told him that this thing scared me (I was 21 at the time) because it was too fast and I couldn't hear or feel anything because of engine noise. He laughed and made fun of me but came. He drove it and got really quiet and didn't talk much. We got back and never made fun of me again for it he looked over and told me I did the right thing and understood the lack of confidence with so much HP plus a customized build. Respect, people that's what this came down to and damn good teacher! I hate this happened. I hope it is repaired.
Bro, I would seriously be going to jail for murder immediately after returning and seeing my car like that!.
Me too
Me too
Instead of Home Depot I’d be running to the house for a special tool. Mf right
Me three
Yep, same!
About 20 years ago, I took my resto-modded, big block, Nova SS to a reputable body shop to be painted after I’d spent 3 years rebuilding the car. Just for peace of mind, I installed an old quadrajet carb (with adapter plate) that i had laying around and I knew that the carb had a cracked main body which made it the equivalent of a 3500 rpm rev limiter.
When I picked the car up from the shop, two of the employees complained to me (TO MY FACE!!!) that they couldn’t get it to rev up on a “test drive”, and they advised me that it needed carburetor work.
The engine had billet valve covers, air cleaner, top notch ignition, belt drive system, bright coated headers, and all of the obvious high-dollar stuff, yet there was the old, discolored, crappy Q-jet sitting on top. Hahaha.
Apparently, it had never crossed their minds that I might have put it on there just for them.
Legendary
Man I’d probably have went too jail 😂 he most definitely needs too sue the business! Anyone with sense would know hey I should try too joy ride a car like this when the owner trailered the car here.. if this was close too Florida I have an amazing lawyer that would leave them out too dry when he was done.
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Absolutely, I'd do as much financial damage as I possibly could. And I'm not a litigious person, but they need it broken off in their azzes
Need that lawyer
This is so sad. I've seen it where shops get away with damaging vehicles and not covering it because they say they aren't liable for it. The shop should and hopefully will have to cover the car and modifications that were in this car.
Man I’m definitely adding a 3k rpm limiter to my quarterhorse. It’s not nearly as fast as that turbo coyote but it gets rowdy. Alignments do need a little test drive down the street but cmon, the damn thing looks like a 8 second car why hit it?
If you have an adjustable Rev limiter, setting it at 3k would make it harder to play with.
That's a good idea.
@@TheNova64000 ur right but in case of an emergency where you have to accelerate out of the way you'll end up spinning tire I've had the same situation happen today it doesn't always pay out having more hp than u need
Back in 2010, I ordered a new 2011 Mustang GT. It was the first 5.0L Mustang that arrived at Adamson Ford in Bham AL, maybe the first 5.0 in the state. A day or two later I took it to get tinted. I was being very cautious of the recommended break in period and how it said not to pass 4000rpm. I told the shop owner this, I told him that I had written down the mileage, and not to let his guys drive it. When I came back, it had been driven. I think it was like 5-7 miles. I forget. Luckily no damage, but I’m sure they hammered on it.
I still have the car, and it’s fine, but people are just assholes and don’t respect your things.
Wow this is definitely a reality check for me as I'm currently trying to find a shop to build and install a 347 to put in my 98 explorer sport 2 door, it's amazing how there are shops out there that have absolutely NO RESPECT for somebody else's vehicle.
Any vids of this project?
@@gkdrummer1461 I don't have any pictures as I'm still looking for a shop to do the work, it's a tedious job, and I'm kind of surprised and overwhelmed at the amount of shops out there that seem to be doing great work but have some absolutely AWFUL reviews on Google.
I saw that beautiful car at HPR I can’t believe what I’m looking at my heart goes out to ya man
This is criminal dude. Whoever crashed the car should be charged with theft.
Number 1 reason my car never leaves my sight! Hate this for him!
Exactly, and this reaffirms that
Unfortunately you can’t trust shops to follow your requests. You don’t ever leave you prize in the hands of an incompetent tech. Great vid, sorry for your loss!
you absolutely can. not all mechanics are shit human beings. find a shop with good people that just so happen to like cars.
I had a 91 z28 convertible getting restored by Dames auto body in Wisconsin. The project was supposed to take 3 months for a full restore drivetrain, interior & exterior. I was moving out of state in 6 months so I agreed. It took 9 months which I moved and came back for it. The owner of the shop drove my car on several occasions, one being a comedy which my brother and friends stopped him and took they keys. No damage was done thankfully but I did have to find a new shop in Cleveland to finish the project for me which came out great in the end.
I had the 1st set of new tires put on my Brand New Mustang GT, they had the car in there possession for about 1.5 hours. I have the performance package Black painted wheels, those scumbags scratched up all 4 of my wheels and then tried to deny they did it. Long Story short it took over 2 months to get properly compensated for the repairs. They did more damage to my car changing tires than I did in 14K miles. (Pirelli P Zero tires are way to soft, they don’t last long) The Ford dealer had my car for warranty work and hit the front bumper against something scratching it. Makes you want to give up having something nice. It’s my 1st new car in over 40 yrs of dreaming about it. People are schmucks to put it nicely. 😞
How can it be that hard to have respect for other people's cars?
I would be sick to my stomach if I was there in person. Smh. Any classic or sports car any car like this. I do a alignment on I let the customer drive the car with me. (Customer driving) so I know it goes straight. I'm sorry to hear I enjoyed watching you guys build this car.
Great point
Seeing these masterpieces being wrecked make’s me want to cry 😭
Be safe out there y’all.
My friend owns an identical replica of the BTTF 2 Delorean. She put a fortune into it. She took it to get the motor worked on, literally an hour later it was destroyed because someone took it for a joyride. It would have had to be completely rebuilt from scratch. And that's a 40 year old car to begin with. To say she sued would be an understatement. Last she told me they're not responding to any legal matters. But she was fully insured, and there's no just replacing that thing. It was her dream to own one and it was literally destroyed.
Sorry to hear/see that brother!! It’s clear that someone who went joy riding and lost control and this is the outcome. Saf to see this, and it was preventable. Don’t let just any shop work on your cars, use reputable companies with skilled professionals. This car can’t be replaced and he’s going to end up starting over or taking the money and a loss and move on with a broken heart. You can’t put a dollar value to the hard work, planning, buying and saving to buy. You have to have put one of the masterpieces together to know. Im sorry again brother but you will be ok. It’s just going to hurt for awhile.
True. I have a 98 Electra Glide with lots of mods. 107 S&S engine, Baker OD6 trans, chain final drive, progressive suspension, many other new parts. Practically a new bike with over 100 hp but most dealers look at it like a $4000 98 Harley.
Just happened to come across your channel seeing this thumbnail, watched the clip & had to check out Boomers channel also. Honestly, my heart is broken for the man. He comes across as one of the blokes that you rarely meet and then never forget. I envy him for showing discipline in containing himself upon learning that his baby (his words) was totalled. I recall this happening when I was a kid to Dads mate and 40 years later it's still fresh in my memory like yesterday. I really do hope that Boomer is ok and if I was in a position to supply another car I would, but I'm sure there's many like myself. Hope everything turns out for the better but it's an ugly process. Best wishes from Melbourne Australia...
Brought my Dodge Neon to a mechanic for a rear main seal replacement and got it back with a blown turbo and an engine knock. When I brought the car in it had a bad head gasket and was running a little rough because it needed a tune to support the mods I had. When I got it back the car didn't even have enough power to run in 3rd gear and there was oil being blown out the exhaust. I had no proof that it didn't have these issues beforehand and when I took it back they said it needed a new transmission, engine, and turbo without taking any responsibility. I replaced the turbo and head gasket myself but I still need to sort out some things before I can start it. I've shown video to a couple of master mechanics of the knocking sound and they said it sounded like it just had bad timing. Hopefully they didn't fuck up my car too bad, wish me luck. Oh and I forgot to mention but they did actually fix the rear main seal which was leaking horribly...so props to them?
As a trained investigator for car wrecks ( ill leave that to whom may guess my occupation). This is 100% negligence operation of the that vehicle, by the shop and/or technician. It obvious and i know most are aware, somebody wanted to sneak a joy ride and it ended up like this. Many questions need to be answered and it starts with the shop that did the work. They are 💯 responsible. Its very unfortunate that it’s likely the frame is junk and may never be right, true shame. My heart goes out to Boomer. So sorry brother!!! I pray for the best outcome and questions get answered. God speed
P.s. my heart dropped to my stomach upon the crash scene footage
This is why I do my own work. Might take 2x as long sometimes (no hoist) but my own aunt has lost 2 motors to oil change places. She had a filter back off on a new equinox lease vehicle and they double drain plug gasketed the grand prix she had before that. If an oil change place can't even do oil right, I don't figure they can do much else right. Alignments are one of those things. If your buddy has the time to take a class at the local community College he will likely gain access to tire machines, balancers, alignment racks etc. I been out of college over 10 years but the auto shop professor is a friend of mine, same as the paint shop guy.
Man this suck so bad...unfortunately irresponsible sh*t like this can happen at ANY shop. In my case it was nothing remotely as severe as this...thankfully. I'm in western TN and had an S197 GT convertible on full RideTech air suspension. I had to take the car in to the local ford dealership for a warranty repair on some body trim. They needed to keep it for a day and after picking the car up on the way home I noticed it was taking twice as long to fill the air tank. Upon inspection when I got home I found one of the two Viair compressors was no longer working and all my ride settings were messed with. I'm certain every tech in the service bay had to come push buttons and "play" with the air ride and the constant use over heated one of the compressors. Luckily the fuse blew and saved the compressor. I learned my lesson to lock the controller and take the key fob remote with me if I had to leave the car. Best of luck to Boomer...I hope he gets well soon and it all works out with the Fox.
Right. I am in western tn as well amd on northside Jackson the gateway tire tried not aligning my ranger because they said the power steering was broken and it doesn't even have power steering or power brakes. Dude said Id have to fix the power steering before they could align it and even after repeating it doesn't have power steering to even fix, he said that it wont align because its got a v8 swap. Wtf?! Im glad they ended up not doing it as the tech guy kept asking me how fast it was
Great video of you telling people that they should be careful and more diligent with their prized cars.
Exactly why I never leave my car. It’s unfortunate that people don’t respect peoples property.
What a unusual front end alignment.
Wow I would have freaked out if that was my car I work at a shop and I have respect for people's cars we have a couple people that bring high horse powered cars and me and my supervisor are the only ones that drive them in and work on them
Exactly, thats what should have been done
Same here
I used to do custom suspension work at night and worked as a alignment tech during the day. I didn't want to do them but we got such a good reputation it just happened. Now you do need to test drive things after but when it came to custom hot rods and fast cars we gave them 3 options. Either no test drive and no guarantees it doesn't pull etc, they can drive and I'd ride or they ride along. Rarely did I want to take a car without them but a few knew me and didn't care but I still recorded the test drive to cover my ass. Like I said I didn't want to be tied to the rack because it didn't pay that well but we ended up charging more and the customers didn't care because they knew it'd be done right and be properly cared for and people drove hours sometimes because of the service.
Wow. Hopefully it can be fixed after everything y’all have put into it
That frame is absolutely mangled, there's no fixing this.
That’s probably not happening…
This is why I was glad that the mechanic who worked on my 400 hp subaru, I knew this personally. Then when I had to go from Florida to Washington state I knew a mechanic there who replaced the knocking engine on my subaru with the new one. He drove it to and from work for a week to put miles on it and start breaking it in for me.
I'm lucky I knew both of them. I don't plan on leaving my car with any other shop unless I'm sitting there with it.
All that blood, sweat, and tears, and love. God speed Boomer. I am heart broken for you.
This is sad. I am goiing tru a similar situation....going now 2 years. Sad paet is that I am a disable vet, and I think layers and insurance ckmpanies just taking advantage of the situation in my case I got hurt. I am glad no one got hurt onnthat accident. Hope that car gets repair soon. Thank you for the video. It mentally helps me❤️❤️❤️❤️🙂👍
That’s why I tell the owners of cars I work on to keep the keys. I push them by hand in and out of the shop if needed
Haha you must be doing brakes only. Keys are a must when a qualified technician is working on any vehicle or piece of equipment.
@@thewiseguy3529 you obviously haven’t seen my channel. I usually don’t have much of a car when I start on them
@@1194video you're not "working on cars." You're rebuilding them lol haha 😆 yea you don't need keys when it's in pieces and it's just a roller. Take Care! Stay safe out there. It's getting real. 🇺🇸
@@thewiseguy3529 yeah it’s getting rear alright, real hard to afford to build cars with prices going up
@@1194video i think it's only matter of time don't matter how much money anybody has there won't be anything to buy. Some stuff will remain, but it will be very bleak. They're counting our items now. We only get so much. You know, wasteful Americans. TO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT EITHER. LIKE 60 YRS TOO LATE.
The joyriding part is one of the main reasons I'm not bringing my cars to repair shops, I do everything by myself, gathering the experiences myself. If I fix or try to fix someone elses car, then I make sure if I can drive it from one spot to another, if so, then I'm doing that in as short of a period as possible to avoind anything bad from happening.
Mustangs are already tough to control so let's add more power. MORE! >:0
I can tell you from experience I know this shop personally and their employees. Those idiots would NOT touch my bicycle because I have personally seen some of their lack of experience and care of the vehicle being serviced.Ive also seen their lack of technical experience and knowledge. I would sue the hell out of them and make them own their mistake.by them saying that the engine went to (WOT) is absolute Bullshit.anyone who knows anything about cars is that that can't happen with being told to do so.this is definitely going to hurt their business and it should open people's eyes as to what might be happening to their vehicle.I felt absolutely sick to my stomach when I saw that video and it's not even my car!
Who is it so we know not to go there?
Name the shop
Dubois County Tire. It's on Boomers channel, so it's not a secret. Next time he should take it to Bedford to White's Alignment.
We had a local cop who partied at a shop that serviced the State Trooper vehicles... got lit up and thought taking a Trooper cruiser for a joyride would be the thing to do. That little trip cost him his job, 7 days in jail and six months probation... but at least he didn't wreck the car.
Just seeing this made me numb...not a good way to start the summer, I hope this is all dealt with in a swift manner Good Luck Man
When I worked at a shop in college we did some high end show cars to drag cars and farm stuff to beaters, the owner of the shop pulled in the high end stuff, there was one drag truck that came all the time that the boss would let us pull in, I don’t know how fast it was because we had enough sense to respect other people stuff.
I brought one of my bmws to get an alignment at a shop near me that I had used a million times on normal customer cars. My bmw had a v8 and some fun mods and a 6-speed, and when I dropped it off I was a little worried someone might try beating on it for the test drive. They called me about 30 minutes after I dropped it off and said the clutch was blown. The clutch and flywheel had about 3000 miles and I drove the car in with no signs of issues. It was an aluminum 13lb flywheel on a car that had a 50lb dual mass flywheel on it originally making it a little tricky to get going. When I got there the smoke was still clearing from the driver trying to drive it back to the shop and absolutely smoking all the relatively new and quite expensive parts. They wouldn't give me anything and said it was a "hot potatoe" mechanical situation. Which I couldnt disagree with, if the clutch just all the sudden stopped working, then yes it's on me and I would come pick the car up with a trailer. My issue came with the test driver smoking the hell out of everything and causing enough damage that it all had to be replaced, luckily the flywheel had a replaceable friction plate which saved a ton of money. But I defintly learned a lesson about dropping a fun car off at a shop. Never leave it. I worked at a performance shop years later, and I refused to drive a customer car hard without them giving a written ok through text or email or having them there to watch over it or just drive it themselves. I worked on track cars and sometimes you have to lean on them a little to test functionality or for diagnostic purposes, but I would never feel right doing it without the owner knowing exactly what I was going to do and why. You don't mess up someone's pride and joy.
This is why I have not taken any vehicle to a shop in 25 years. As society continues to collapse, people get worse and worse and you can bet on stuff like this happening every damned time.
And yes I have an EPA license and AC service equipment can be rented.
All of the tips you gave are spot on if you want to try and keep your car safe at different shops. Most people already have these in their cars but dash cameras are almost a must with a car like that and taking it somewhere just so whatever did happen it's on film and there is no room for any lies or questions it's just see this? Thats what you did now call your insurance guy and let him know you are at fault not me! Very handy tool!!
A similar thing happened to me when I had to get upholstery done on my dart and the owner took it to get lunch and spun it into a ditch. the owner covered all repairs at a shop of my choosing and the only damage was on the rear quarter, bumper and wheel but I made the carbon bumper myself so that was a complicated part. Now I put a throttle stop so it will only go fast enough to be moved.
A big Damn of feel so bad for Boomer, and his sweet Foxbody racecar. Under no circumstances should anyone
drive a vehicle like this without supervision of some sort. I have seen something similar from a actual dealership that
was joyriding a highly modified 4WDR Dodge Ram truck w/twin turbo 900 plus HP, they didn't wreck it, but they
did donuts and ripped out rear end gears and major damage to the auto trans. It's a true shame stuff like this happens,
really it shouldn't ever happens.
I have a 758 horse 40 Studebaker coupe gasser that I had to add 1/8th inch plate to the entire chassis for structural integrity,big job for a home builder with hand tools. Car was initially built in ‘60s so I had to upgrade brakes and ton of other stuff to make it safe. 8 years work and still haven’t hit the track with it yet,and won’t until myself and my helpers are completely satisfied that it is safe to run. I miss things that they point out. I’m a 60 year old former street racer that has learned from past mistakes. Do it right,or put it on a stand.
I've had this happen twice. I once sold a 1995 Cobra 331 V2 about 500 rwhp (Dupont Extreme Rainbow Paint). The shipping company Truck driver took for a joyride, smashed it all up. Luckily they gave the guy I sold it to a bunch of money since it was insured. The second time I had a stock 1999 SC40 (Super rare, only 900 sold in the US of that year). A alignment shop worker smashed the rear quarter somehow, they paid to get it fixed plus gave me some money (They were cool all things considered). I sold the car right after because it had bondo, and I no longer wanted it. It just sucks, these things happen but try to do everything yourself is my motto. Mechanics are dishonest people by nature (I was one for 10+ years), only a small few will respect your car.
It would be cool to have a tune for the car when getting it serviced. Turn off the boost and have the rev limiter set to 3 or 4 grand.
The shop I’m at has a regular customer with an Infiniti something or another that’s full custom built. Has a nice wrap, aftermarket rims, it has air suspension, etc. he comes in pretty regularly for a custom alignment bc he likes his wheels cambered out a lot. He has crystal clear instructions on how we handle this car. He parks it in the back of our shop right in front of the alignment rack, he requires that we wash our hands/arms rly well before getting in the car, and we have to use a seat cover and a floor mat. And when the alignment is finished, he test drives it for himself. He doesn’t like other people driving his car around I totally understand that and so does our shop. This type of thing should’ve never happened if it was a responsible and respectful shop
That’s why I’m glad my car only gets drove/serviced by Z1 Motorsports.
I once dropped off a very nice restored classic muscle car at a shop for alignment. They seemed nice enough. On the way out the door but still in lobby I hear the mgr say, "I'll be right back taking this car for a test drive". He thought I had already left. I came back in and said, no you are not as there is no insurance on the vehicle (there was). Had I not done this I'm certain he would have beat the crap out of it.
Jeebus. I've had pristine rims, on a SHOW CAR, ruined by a lousy tech who dented them due to pure incompetence (company rhymes with DAVIS).
I was PISSED!!! I had to get the wheel(s) professionally repaired/refinished/repainted, and left them a really sh1tty review on Google and Yelp, and am NEVER going back again.
My heart goes out to this poor car owner!!!
I missed the bullet when I hired an alignment shop to align my low 11 second aspirated VW Bug.
I drove the car off the trailer and helped push it onto the alignment rack.
After the alignment was completed, the technician said he needed to take a short drive to verify the settings. Foolishly I agree.
The Asshat went up the street and around the corner on a cold engine, where I could hear him hit the rev-limiter 3 times.
I was more than pissed off.
I went to my truck and retrieved a tire thumper, with the thought of dislodging the thought blockage from his ignorant brain.
Long story short, after the shitshow cleared, the manager asked that I just load the car and call him should I discover any engine damage. Fortunately no detectable damage was discovered.
Today, I remain a free man, as the need to evacuate the technicians brains went without redress.
I would have simply asked for his car keys so I could repay him by redlining his car in neutral until the engine blows up.
Any local body shop can do the repairs here. Look for those with insurance business at affordable rates. Some of them own race cars.
This is exactly why when I get alignment work done it’s on 3lbs of boost and a 3k rev limiter.
No reason a alignment tech needs to of been driving this car. If they are competent enough to do the job on a car of this caliber. No test drive needed.
@@poormansdemon3176 dude cars like this come in suspension so outta wack you have to drive it and adjust
I got an inspection done at a drive in drive out oil change place for my mustang gt350 ..
Bc I can see everything in the building and sit in my car ..
For insurance reasons I could not drive the car into the bay and neither could the techs .. They had to make me wait off to the side till the owner got there and drove it in .. They had a rule and a list of performance cars they were not allowed to drive .. It sucked waiting the Xtra 30 min but I'm proud the owner made it so it's almost impossible to joy ride your car .. Cameras all over , so this man had it down right
On another occasion in the GT350
I had my alternator voltage regulator sending huge amounts of electricity through the car after the car hit 5,000 RPMs.. Everything would shut off to save the electronics systems .. the alternator was faulty .. the Ford tech made sure that I drove the car out to show him the problem and after it was proven there was a problem They fixed the alternator.. also made sure that I was to drive the car out to make sure the problem was fixed.. The service writer had the mechanic who worked on my car come with him to speak to me bc I'm a car guy and the service writer really wasn't .. So I thought that was extremely courteous and respectful .. The tech said He would normally test the cars himself but knew it would worry me Having to have a tech rev up past 5,000 rpm on the street .. He said that If it were his car that he would want to be the only driver .. He also said he didn't feel good to have to beat on the car and shift at redline to make sure the prob was solved . I got his name and told him any time I need to come back for service that I'd be happy for him to drive the car. Also asked if he wanted to try it out bc he had never driven one .. He paused a second but politely declined ..
I would sue the brakes off they ass😂 I would own that shop after that
He should be reimbursed every penny that it takes to restore the car back to the way it was, including the cost of a rental vehicle for all the months it's going to take, and an extra $20,000 for missed work, inconvenience, and punitive damages.
I have a Bluetooth throttle controller on my car so I can set the max the throttle will open if someone else is driving it. When I have work done that only a shop can do I asked the manager if I can ride along and if they say no I go somewhere that will say yes to avoid stuff like this. Took one of my cars for an inspection one time and sometimes they will do a "safety test drive", checked my tracker app and the kid was out doing 80 on a back road and I lost my shit when he got back. Not saying all shops are like this but other people won't respect the things you have and the hard work you do the way you do
Of course it goes wot when you get on it....I'd definitely be sick....an no shop should let a car leave the property period...if that was mine I'd smack the $#!@ OUT of whoever drove it an wrecked it 100% it's there fault no if ans or buts
I know being an automotive shop for 30 years now specializing in high performance my first 10 years in business but had to switch to general automotive repairs due to California osha laws having insurance for the shop was a tough thing on cars with low value but exceeded 100 x times the value most insurance companies will fight to not pay even if the shop owner say pay this customer! And I agree shop shouldn’t move the car or most shops won’t work on them due to modifications on that car !! I had my modified mustang in a shop of a custom exhaust and they crashed it in the front end looked just like that and I didn’t have any aftermarket insurance on the car as it wasn’t out racing yet or even on any street I lost the whole car as the shop had no insurance to cover it and they closed shortly after I feel your pain good luck in this battle ! And the biggest problem will be getting insurance on a race car after this claim good luck 👍👍
Great video. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.
I hear you about not leaving the shop. I had a smog shop try to put my AWD Eclipse GSX on a 2wd dyno to test it even after I told them it’s AWD and you cannot put it on the dyno. After I heard engine under extreme load from the waiting room I ran back in the garage and started screaming at the tech. I told him I didn’t care that your sign says you’re not responsible for damage. I specifically told you not to put it on the dyno. If I find damage, I’m taking you to court. Luckily, there wasn’t any damage and I didn’t have to deal with that hassle. But yes, keep an eye on your car, especially if it’s a shop you don’t know.
My dad had a WS6 TransAm and took it to a car wash. The employees need to drive it in as its one of the carwashes where they vacuum it out and stuff, but the employee said he could drive stick shift. Thing went a few inches from a brick wall because he didn't know what he was doing. A few years later, waiting at a red light, a 16-year-old girl rear ended it while she was on her phone going about 30-40MPH. The T/A when straight under a Silverado (or Avalanche) in front of it.
I worked for a large tire store as a lube/tire tech. I refused to work on a z06, and a couple other high end cars that came in. I always had the "shop manager " bring them in and put on the lift. Like a lot of good mechanics, I didn't work there long
This happens a lot, here in Toronto a Charger was getting work done the owner promised the car would be locked in overnight but the shop kid had keys to garage and took it out and wrecked it. North of the city a friend came up on a accident that he stopped at. It was a huge intersection with Viper making a left turn burn out marks completely through intersection and lost it in the turn hitting curb and landing on its roof. It was the mechanic driving owner showed up in a Jeep freaking out.
I'm just not that trusting period.
This is making me rethink where I go take my vehicle for inspection. Been going to one place for 5 yrs. In TX they must take the car for a drive. Granted the guy is a gear head. I stay there and watch him drive around the block but I am never happy with that situation. He doesn’t drive it fast, maybe 20mph nonetheless I have over a year worths of man hours on my 89. I have a newer Shelby where I take it somewhere else and only the shop owner checks it out. He literally drives from one parking spot to another about 100 feet away. I know what I am doing next year with the fox. Also I have 2 tunes. One limits the car to 1200rpms and 15mph. This is easy to do if you know how to read and create tunes. I did my own. But ask your tuner about that option.
Same thing happened to my best friend ! He had a 1989 saleen with multiple mods totaling over 30 k …. Long story short … he received a text saying his car was on fire at 9/10 pm …. The shop closed at 5pm …. Hes stuck with a fully built , half burned car thats rusting as he tries to find guidance on what to do next …. Hey if anyone here has insight is gladly pass the message along ❤️
Wow my heart breaks for him! Makes me sick to my stomach. Some people have no common sense, why would you mat it straight into the side of a 18 wheeler trailer? Truck must've pulled out in front of the alignment tech. Good lord that is awful.
Totally senseless
Hey man don't automatically blame the truck driver. I've been trucking 25 year's and my experience has been dumb people in cars is what causes these type of situations.
Let this be a warning to all, we have cameras on the dash of the trucks now and the days of blaming us for the goofy thing's people do are over. That camera doesn't lie👌
It wasn't the truck driver, they drove up under the truck
@@FoxcastMedia I already kind of figured that.
God bless....
@@grandspringdale1564 I'm not blaming the truck driver, that's exactly what I was saying he decided to floor it and plow into the side of the trailer. It's not the drivers fault he pulled out in front of him the tech was a dumbass
I was even nervous dropping off my Mach 1 to get tinted because it was a young kid doing my tint(but he’s the best around which is why I chose him) so I took a picture of my mileage before I left, because there’s no reason for the car to be driven besides in the shop. Luckily that’s all he did
Not sure where this happened, but in Michigan shops are required to have garage keepers legal liability insurance . This insurance covers any damage the shop does to a customers motor vehicle. Additionally if the shop test drives a customer vehicle they throw on an in transit vehicle plate. One of my employees trashed a customers pick up and my insurance covered the damage.
Airtag along with a ecu that records n monitors everything the engine does while it's running.
Wow!!! I am so sorry 😞. I know he is sick 😫. That like loosing your best friend you just loaned 60 grand. The person thought it would be funny to bleep the throttle and chirp the tires and wasn't expecting it to hook up and take off on him. My condolences to Boomer. Thanx for the content brother.
I wrecked my 1970 Z28 seventeen years ago and it still sits in my barn on jacks. Sick doesn't even get close to how you feel.
I worked for a few shop's . An some people do this to people random cars an trucks . they say taking it for a test drive . ended up being a joyride . i seen it to many time's .
most likely the guy prob be sueing the company . the guy that did it could be fired then charged for reckless driving . then fired if not fired already. i heard in the vid where the guy side the cable got stuck wide open . the owner seem to say the car doesn't have a cable so there is no way for it to get stuck open .
you do not need to go 50 mph to check if the car or truck is pulling right to left . you can do that shit going 10mph .
feel sorry for the guy an the car .
I just thank God i learn from one of the best mechanic's i know . an still learn as i go. Dad busted his butt for low pay back in the day .
Back in '95 I bought a really nice '94 lightning. 9500 miles on it. A week later someone hit and run it on the rear drivers side bed and bumper. I didn't want to pay my $1500 deductible so I found what I thought was a credible body shop. Anyways the guy said he would fix it for $500 just needs 2 days. I admit I had a very unhealthy obsession with this truck. I wrote the odometer down and left it. Every couple of hours that day I kept driving by it was parked the whole time. I decided to swing by the next day on my way to work. It was gone. I figured it was in the garage. About a block later there was my truck in a parking lot doing a brake torque. Imeaditly I was on it drove right up the drivers side and got out. It was the freaking owner!! He couldn't get a word out. I didn't have a cell phone back then. I checked the odometer there was over 60 extra miles on it. I made him get out. He begged me to let him fix the truck for free. I ended up paying my deductible and going somewhere else.
I stay with my car when I take it to a shop for an alignment video on my channel
When I had my Auto repair shop, I didn't allow any of my technicians road test any high performance or very expensive vehicles. I had insurance that would cover up to a Million Dollars
It’s a late model Boss 302 with electric throttle. Gas didn’t stick and if so he would of slapped in neutral or killed or ignition. Not even brakes locked. Steering wheel was to the right but if you know power it understeers. He romped it and never drove that type of power which commands time to wind down. Calculation and reaction are the culprits.
Yeah, that wasn't an accident. Somebody at that shop was trying to show off.
I kinda feel bad for everyone involved, some tech had no business at all driving that car, test drove after an alignment couldn't help but open it up a bit and said HOLY SHIT as they ran into whatever happened to be in front of them. Owner is out his fun times track car. His buddy not sitting with the car during an alignment is crushed. Business owner is hurt over the reality of the cost. Business owner is already struggling to find anyone to do the work in the first place.
I am a tech for a small shop and I agree with everything you have said even in the comments. Maybe it's just how I was raised but I respect customers property and as much as I hate it I sometimes prefer the customer even drive the vehicle in the shop, if they own a vehicle like that then I garantee they can manage to get it on the lift or in the bay.
Somewhere at another shop the dude that went on the joyride is explaining in an interview just how the throttle cable got hung up. 🤣🤣🤣
Excellent cost evaluation probably more like 70k for good measure so ,man let us no were not to go!!!
Yo let’s help this man and get every one to donate to help recreate this monster yes
That is why you never leave your car alone. Hope he learned his lesson.
I had a first gen Camaro come in to the shop I was working at a few times. Total show car, 540 all aluminum big block. I hated pulling in and out of the shop because I was scared of making a mistake. Never took it on the road.