Ripped off
The following is an excerpt of my dealings with Demon Sizzler in Georgia who was supposed to rebuild my original Thermoquad roughly 2 months ago. Since Mr. Chevas has not returned my phone calls & emails I have no choice but to post this here & @ Moparts so that maybe no one else will fall victim.....a few of you already have apparently....Makes no damn sense to me....I never make time out of my busy schedule to slam someone but in this case I have to make an exception.........
David, I have called you & sent emails concerning all the problems I have had with this Thermoquad since I bolted it on. I paid you $210.00 to rebuild this carb and have had nothing but problems from day one....We discussed the secondary air valve problem last week along with extremely hard starting just after 1-2 days of the car sitting (choke works fine). I drove the car last Sunday afternoon for about 75 miles, parked it in my garage and went to start it again Monday evening....it cranked and cranked and I thought it would never start, it finally did after several stabs of the accelerator but had a huge flat spot just like the accelerator pump was not working....I removed the air cleaner and guess what? It wasnt! No fuel squirting into the carb....I was stunned after paying you $210.00 and waiting a month and a half to rebuild this carb........Imagine my surprise when I removed it tonight, took it apart and found that it had not been rebuilt at all! Who knows how long the pump had been in there, or the needle & seats.....the float levels were not at the required 1 with gasket installed, the fuel inlet gasket looked like it was original and it fell apart when I removed the nut! The only thing I see you did was replace the two gaskets and re-glue the pieces on the bottom of the bowl.........I have rebuilt a few of these carbs years ago, not having the time and experience I thought you might do a better job at inspecting & deciding what steps would be needed to make this a turn key carb performing as new or better (as from your website). Well I had ordered a Hygrade kit from the local parts store in town yesterday for $47.00 knowing I had to find out what was going on.........so after my rebuild it is perfect......started almost as soon as I turned the key......So, I managed to do correctly what took you a month and a half and $210.00? Oh, and shipping + my purchase of a kit.....that puts me @ about $272.00 into this carb of which Scott Harms of
www.harmsauto.com could have done for a few more $$$$ and made it look like brand new.....I am not a happy camper David and I deserve to have a good part of the money I paid you to do this job sent back to my Paypal account.....I will let you decide how much is fair....your reputation @ Moparts & FABO depend on it. Dave Moore, Virginia