Beware Dumb Hot Rod Shops

Lord Sparky said

If you live in San Diego you would know there are only two major classic car shops. If you live in San Diego and don't know which shop I am talking about you can message me. Apparently, most of the staff quit and they now have new staff. Maybe the shop has improved in the last three years so I am not going to openly badmouth them on the internet.

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thanks for keeping it classy.

sometimes you can judge a shop by a person or people that work there: owner's a grumpy asshole, but they do good work and the guys that work there are nice to deal with.

other times, it's the doing of one bad actor that torpedoes the rep of a place. i worked for a joint that had a guy who consistently did terribly, shoddy, half *** work and it reflected on not only the business but the rest of us as well (especially as we each left to go find work elsewhere). of course that guy was the brother in law's step kid or some nonsense, so he couldn't get fired.

anyway, i'm not saying what happened is excusable. but sometimes **** happens, and it may not be the shop that's bad but one rotten apple in there stinking up the joint. either way, though somebody should've had eyes on those brake lines before it went out the door. your line in there about the staff turnover makes me think that it's "an institutional problem" with the mechanics probably being decent but somebody up the chain telling them to just do as they're told and ship it.