milehighGNdude
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Just thought Id share my experience so far with the buick “guru”.
I sent my car down to have a rebuild done with forged parts and roller cam rockers. Also asked to have alky kit installed and needed to have pressure switch swapped out on trans.
He never did the alky kit just threw it in my trunk... no word on the pressure switch but I do have a leaking pan now so I think he got that done. Asked him what size cam he put in it so I could get a chip going and his response was “we usually do a 212/212” so i asked usually ? So thats whats In there?? Uh uh Yea yea that’s what it got. So i think it has a 212/212.
Get my car back and first thing i notice are 2 fresh creases the rear quarters. I asked if it was possible this happened when he rolled my fenders? Was told it’s impossible and had to be shipper. Shippers Denys it. Nick Denys it but says get estimate and well talk. I feel like I’m stuck with 500$ in body work...
Next i notice how dirty the car is. Like it was left outside in Arizona heat for months...start driving it to the car wash and noticed Nick Micale let a bird SHIT inside my car!!! Repeat BIRD SHIT INSIDE MY CAR. The level of disrespect you have to have to let a bird shit inside a customers car and not even clean it up is beyond me! I start washing it to find I now have a fresh leak in my rear window seal. Nice steady drip. I wonder if staying outside in 110 degree heat for extended periods will do that ? My fault I should of asked him but I assumed he garaged them the whole time.
Now I’m leaving the car wash and hear loud clunking noise coming from the rear. I pull over to inspect it and what do I find ? The lugs nuts were coming off. I could hand thighten/loosen them. Smh guess I was lucky I wasnt on freeway
I call nick because I’m understandably upset at this point, I just spent 12k for the guru to go through my baby and make her right. Its at this time I find out Nick Micale isn’t even doing the work because he’s been sick in and out of the hospital. He’s having “his guy” from down the street do it. I’m not trying to be inconsiderate (I understand health problems as I take care of my disabled mother.) but he should of never took the project if he wasn’t going to do the work period.
About 30 miles more into the break in I notice a significant oil leak and start to track it down. My buddy finds that it’s the timing cover oil pump area and that it’s very loose. You could push it with fingers and see the gasket compress decompress.
After all these problems nick stopped taking my calls because I was very angry and yelling and talking over him like a jerk. My girlfriend takes over dealing with nick. Nick tells her to have me take the car to a shop and have them one over it and he’ll pay for it? Or they’ll discuss that ? I wasn’t really sure about that one. kind of like rear quarters.
So I take it to a shop and the leak picks up. Now not only is it leaking oil. It starts leaking trans fluid all over the place. Smh.
Finally hear back from the mechanic and i was given a list of areas leaking oil, timing/oil pump and it’s also leaking at the valves. Also found a pinched battery cable and leaking exhaust. Told me the battery cable was serious fire hazard.
Now nick is telling my gf the shop is trying to rob me and that his “guy” been doing this for 20 years, “his guy” ??? This goes back to The hospital stuff. I was told zimmerman was doing the block (mechanics are questioning if the block was even machined) and his neighbor do the trans but everything else as far as I knew was him. It’s hard because I want to be sympathetic to the hospital stuff but from the way it sounds he knew about his health and took my car on. I saved money for couple years for this and it’s gone from a dream to nightmare.
And last after all this i start going over my bill with fine tooth comb and see he charged me 450$ for timing cover/chain and oil pump that I had sent down with the car.
Maybe I’m unrealistic but the reason I paid top dollar was i expected everything to be 100% done when I got my car back 90-100 days later. I’m no mechanic or anything close and made that clear I was expecting it done right and tight.
I’m not sure anyone uses yelp for Arizona GN so i shared my experience on here.
He says he wants to make it right but as of today my car sits at the shop, he says they are trying to rip me off. I know the car is leaking all over and it has to be on hIm or his mechancic they were lastct to touch it. So at this point I’m not sure he can make it good. I’m so disappointed with Nick Micale and Arizona GN. Anyone considering them I would look else where.
It won’t let me upload videos of the lug nuts or the timing cover being messed with.
I sent my car down to have a rebuild done with forged parts and roller cam rockers. Also asked to have alky kit installed and needed to have pressure switch swapped out on trans.
He never did the alky kit just threw it in my trunk... no word on the pressure switch but I do have a leaking pan now so I think he got that done. Asked him what size cam he put in it so I could get a chip going and his response was “we usually do a 212/212” so i asked usually ? So thats whats In there?? Uh uh Yea yea that’s what it got. So i think it has a 212/212.
Get my car back and first thing i notice are 2 fresh creases the rear quarters. I asked if it was possible this happened when he rolled my fenders? Was told it’s impossible and had to be shipper. Shippers Denys it. Nick Denys it but says get estimate and well talk. I feel like I’m stuck with 500$ in body work...
Next i notice how dirty the car is. Like it was left outside in Arizona heat for months...start driving it to the car wash and noticed Nick Micale let a bird SHIT inside my car!!! Repeat BIRD SHIT INSIDE MY CAR. The level of disrespect you have to have to let a bird shit inside a customers car and not even clean it up is beyond me! I start washing it to find I now have a fresh leak in my rear window seal. Nice steady drip. I wonder if staying outside in 110 degree heat for extended periods will do that ? My fault I should of asked him but I assumed he garaged them the whole time.
Now I’m leaving the car wash and hear loud clunking noise coming from the rear. I pull over to inspect it and what do I find ? The lugs nuts were coming off. I could hand thighten/loosen them. Smh guess I was lucky I wasnt on freeway
I call nick because I’m understandably upset at this point, I just spent 12k for the guru to go through my baby and make her right. Its at this time I find out Nick Micale isn’t even doing the work because he’s been sick in and out of the hospital. He’s having “his guy” from down the street do it. I’m not trying to be inconsiderate (I understand health problems as I take care of my disabled mother.) but he should of never took the project if he wasn’t going to do the work period.
About 30 miles more into the break in I notice a significant oil leak and start to track it down. My buddy finds that it’s the timing cover oil pump area and that it’s very loose. You could push it with fingers and see the gasket compress decompress.
After all these problems nick stopped taking my calls because I was very angry and yelling and talking over him like a jerk. My girlfriend takes over dealing with nick. Nick tells her to have me take the car to a shop and have them one over it and he’ll pay for it? Or they’ll discuss that ? I wasn’t really sure about that one. kind of like rear quarters.
So I take it to a shop and the leak picks up. Now not only is it leaking oil. It starts leaking trans fluid all over the place. Smh.
Finally hear back from the mechanic and i was given a list of areas leaking oil, timing/oil pump and it’s also leaking at the valves. Also found a pinched battery cable and leaking exhaust. Told me the battery cable was serious fire hazard.
Now nick is telling my gf the shop is trying to rob me and that his “guy” been doing this for 20 years, “his guy” ??? This goes back to The hospital stuff. I was told zimmerman was doing the block (mechanics are questioning if the block was even machined) and his neighbor do the trans but everything else as far as I knew was him. It’s hard because I want to be sympathetic to the hospital stuff but from the way it sounds he knew about his health and took my car on. I saved money for couple years for this and it’s gone from a dream to nightmare.
And last after all this i start going over my bill with fine tooth comb and see he charged me 450$ for timing cover/chain and oil pump that I had sent down with the car.
Maybe I’m unrealistic but the reason I paid top dollar was i expected everything to be 100% done when I got my car back 90-100 days later. I’m no mechanic or anything close and made that clear I was expecting it done right and tight.
I’m not sure anyone uses yelp for Arizona GN so i shared my experience on here.
He says he wants to make it right but as of today my car sits at the shop, he says they are trying to rip me off. I know the car is leaking all over and it has to be on hIm or his mechancic they were lastct to touch it. So at this point I’m not sure he can make it good. I’m so disappointed with Nick Micale and Arizona GN. Anyone considering them I would look else where.
It won’t let me upload videos of the lug nuts or the timing cover being messed with.
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