Maybe a month and a half ago I ordered a new car stereo, it was one of those double sized ones that have a touch screen, GPS, and all that. I figured since I spend a lot of time driving it’ll be a nice upgrade.
I had this stereo sitting there dying to be put in, however since my car isn’t your typical every day car, I wanted to make sure I can find an installer that has some experience with install on this car, and can provide me with the perfect install.
Anyhow, I wake up this Saturday, and take it to this place that does installs. the guy assures me they have worked on this car before, and it should be no problem, he will even do it himself. When I go to bring my car around, there is this young guy that tells me he is going to install it, and instead of bringing inside, he’s going to do it outside in the back of the building.
This kid pulls out my radio, cuts up my console, cuts out my screw points, and THEN looks at the stereo, which at this point doesn’t fit. He tells me, “this isn’t going to fit sorry”. He get’s his boss, his boys says he will get it to fit. His boss looks it it, and then goes outside. The kid says to me, it’s not going to fit, jams everything back in the console and goes inside leaving me with my cut out console pieces, and a bunch of mess. I said to myself, why did I take my car to Hi Tec Audio Video in Brampton and let them butcher my console?
The problem is that now-a-days, no one knows shit about anything. People get jobs that they are not qualified for and have no experience in. The kid at the stereo shop said he has done over 10 cars like mine. Well then why didn’t you know it was a shallow bay in the console, and check the stereo size before you cut everything up? Then you tell my my stereo was longer, then we measured it against a Kenwood, and it was the same size.
You go to Best Buy, and the people in the computer department don’t know shit about computers, the TV people know shit all about TV’s, and you trust these people for advice?
I took my car into two shops recently, the first guy didn’t know shit, because when I asked him for quotes on doing work, he expected that I would be stupid enough to leave my car there for the whole day, and he would tell me at the end of his 10 hour day how much it was. Are you serious? The other guy just got out of college, and his other mechanic was probably his brother from high school. I thought I was back in my grade 12 shop class.
It has come to the point where I don’t trust anyone working on my car or motorcycle unless they are old guys (40+) with years of experience in the field, and years of experience on my model. I will find write ups and reviews on the internet before I go to Best Buy and have some kid tell me about shit he doesn’t know that he read off the box.
Don’t get me started on customer service either. Half of these people do the jobs for the money, and don’t care about going a quality job, or making you happy. I recently paid 2 hours worth of cash for doing something to my car which took them 20 minutes. Because they had no clue, and quoted me wrong. Instead of charging me the right price for the amount of work that was done, they knocked of $20, and said it’s a standard rate. They should have knocked off the other $40, and even just charged me for the hour at the most. Mind you I had another $1000 worth of work to be done, and they aren’t going to get it. It’s too bad that making a quick $70 off of me was a better idea for them than keeping it fair, and making $1000 later on.
There are just too many idiots that think that they went to school for a few years they know everything about everything, which they know shit all about jack shit.
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