Originally Posted by
Vteckidd
LOL Forged groupie?
Look every shop has their horror stories. Unfortunately the performance car market is full of asshats WITH cars and asshats who run shops. You have customers that spend money to do it right and get taken advantage of, and you have guys who will nickle and dime you to death. You also have owners who are HORRIBLE business people.
Topspeed has their fair share of haters and i bet some of its legitimate. Same with Forged. Each shop probably has 10 testimonials, and 10 horror stories. Its just the nature of the business.
Honestly the Forged issue for me is the handling of the situation. On JPs G37 (and i know JP from his EVO days) i saw the car. It was some pretty shoddy work. It was not quality of work i expect from a shop of Forged Performances pedigree.
Now , this GTR, has the same shoddy quality and workmanship associated with backyard mechanics on Honda Civics, certainly not a GTR. As far as the motor blowing up, i mean the dude was trying to make 1000whp, shit happens. No motor is bullet proof.
The problem for me is in BOTH of these instances, Sharif blamed his TECHs, and tried to pass the buck that the problem was solved because "those people no longer work here". To me that is bullshit. Youre the owner of the company, you are responsible for the techs you hire and the standard you hold your shops work too. It is your job to train and implement a standard that all techs will practice. When you see bad work, you correct it, you dont let it go out the door then fire the tech. That doesnt solve the problem.
Sharif would have been better served, IMO, coming out and saying "the work is subpar not indicative of Forged Performance, and Im willing to do whatever it takes to fix the situation in a timely matter". thats it, no excuses. He could have gotten the car back from TS IMO if he just made a push to the guy to do it. But he seemed more inclined to trash TS and blame his fired tech than shouldering the responsibility of being an OWNER.
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