FridayGt
Well-Known Member
Well, I know a few of you have been waiting to see what was going to happen with my Roadrunner once I got it back. I still haven't yet. And a lot of digging has turned into me getting scammed. No work has been done to my car at all. It's been sitting for the entire 2 1/2 years I was stationed overseas. I can't express how utterly devastated and heart broken I am right now, but I'm sure you guys understand.
Before I moved overseas for my last assignment, I dropped my Roadrunner off at a family friends house for storage as they had plenty of room in a nice garage. It was safe there next to their classics and it was going to save me several thousand on paying to store it. While I was gone a paint and body friend of his offered to take care of the rust problems that were starting to become very apparent for $8K, just so long as he had the two years I was gone to work on it. This way he could take care of it in between his other jobs and not have to pay his guys labor on it. What was discussed was rotisserie, media blasting, replacement panels welded in where necessary to address rust and soft spots, priming, paint and replacement of trim. I simply couldn't say no for that price, though now I realize I should have.
Multiple missed deadlines later, police involvement and more, my car was found never touched. My friend is returning my $8k, paying for transport to get the car to a shop I choose and paying to have that shop make it at least safely driveable again.
I'm honestly just at a loss and devastated. I don't know who to trust anymore and with everything else occurring in my life, that $8K I'm getting back will have to go to getting my Wife's condo that we rent out sold as we are upside down in it and losing hundreds on it every month. So, what I'll be left with is rust I simply know I can't afford to fix anymore. I can continue to work on it bit by bit as I can, but saving up $30k+ for a professional paint and body job, simply isn't going to happen on E6 pay in a single income house. I'll regret it for the rest of my life if I sell this car, but I know I'll never be able to address the rust either and the sense of despair with the situation isn't helping either.
Before I moved overseas for my last assignment, I dropped my Roadrunner off at a family friends house for storage as they had plenty of room in a nice garage. It was safe there next to their classics and it was going to save me several thousand on paying to store it. While I was gone a paint and body friend of his offered to take care of the rust problems that were starting to become very apparent for $8K, just so long as he had the two years I was gone to work on it. This way he could take care of it in between his other jobs and not have to pay his guys labor on it. What was discussed was rotisserie, media blasting, replacement panels welded in where necessary to address rust and soft spots, priming, paint and replacement of trim. I simply couldn't say no for that price, though now I realize I should have.
Multiple missed deadlines later, police involvement and more, my car was found never touched. My friend is returning my $8k, paying for transport to get the car to a shop I choose and paying to have that shop make it at least safely driveable again.
I'm honestly just at a loss and devastated. I don't know who to trust anymore and with everything else occurring in my life, that $8K I'm getting back will have to go to getting my Wife's condo that we rent out sold as we are upside down in it and losing hundreds on it every month. So, what I'll be left with is rust I simply know I can't afford to fix anymore. I can continue to work on it bit by bit as I can, but saving up $30k+ for a professional paint and body job, simply isn't going to happen on E6 pay in a single income house. I'll regret it for the rest of my life if I sell this car, but I know I'll never be able to address the rust either and the sense of despair with the situation isn't helping either.