+11tybillion for Hot Wheels

I purchased a car from the owner of Hot Wheels -- John Holt. It was Ian's 95 M3 w/ the s52 conversion. Ian wrecked the car and sold it to John. Hot Wheels bought it, fixed it, and sold it. John happened to be out of town when I went to pick up the car so I had to just talk to one of the body guys that was there and he didn't know much about the car.

Everyone says that Hot Wheels does GREAT work. Well apparently they suck at doing work on cars they are selling -- at least this one.

The paint is flaking from the right side skirt (the side that HE REPLACED THE SKIRT), its the WRONG skirt (so I have a driver side sport and a pass side lux -- see pictures below), the door needs re-aligned a tad, the paint on the hood is bubbling, and the rear has a spot that is rough and needs high speed buffed and probably re-cleared.

Sport -- Factory


Lux -- via Hot Wheels -- notice the flaking of the paint below the front jack hole


So I figure what the hell I'll call John he seems to be a good guy! Everyone likes him I am sure that he will want to fix it since he is a GREAT bodyshop!

WRONG!!

After me telling him all of this his response to me is:

"Thats what you get for buying a used car"

Being the owner of a body shop and a car that YOU WORKED ON. I would think he would want to take a look at it and possibly fix it for a highly discounted rate or even free since he did all the work. Does he not have a guarantee for any of his paint for customers?:shifty

Oh and the car slowly -- kind of slowly -- leaks tyranny fluid as well. I even had AutoFab replace the input shaft seal and it still leaks.

Maybe I should have noticed this all before I bought the car and thats my fault but how can the owner of a -- so called -- nice body shop hide all of this information and then refuse to look at it or fix anything by just saying its a used car.

Yellow River Collision @ Stone Mountain here I come!

Or maybe I'll go to Maaco I might get the correct parts there