Originally posted by nahos81
hmmm... i don't know if you have beef with MeiSoSlow, but your comment makes very little sense. i'm not trying to flame; i'm just trying to understand your comment. he paid for a service, the installation of his exhaust, and he's entightled to expect that this service is completed with some degree of competency. otherwise he could have just done it himself. with that established, the fact that his bumper melted is caused by the installer installing his exhaust too close to his bumper. yes, one should check the installer's work. but how does not checking the installer's work take away one's right to complain about a mistake in this installer's work? the fact is he has every right to complain, but he should take away from the experience the lesson of always checking an installer's work. so let him complain. it's your choice to empathize and to provide a constructive answer to his question, but there is certainly no need to hate.
i admit i'm hating when i shouldn't be. but i hope i'm not coming off as confrontational. i'm just trying to give some constructive criticism in the best way i can. if i'm wrong, let me know.
He has no beef with the guy. He's just stating that Meisoslow should've inspected the work the muffler shop did before he left their premises. If there was something wrong with it, he should've dealt with it right then and there. Rolling your car off their lot is pretty much saying that you have accepted their work as competent. And most likely the shop is not gonna offer a "guarantee" in the installation of an exhaust. I'm pretty sure that Meisoslow had to sign some kind of waiver saying that he's gonna accept the kind of work that is done to his car, etc....
Originally posted by MeiSoSlow
Wow, thanx for the flaming man. All I did was state a question which I found the answer to myself. A simple Laugh would've be better then punching me in the face after i just got done kicken my own ass!!
You said that they messed up the installation of the exhaust. There's pretty much only one way to install an exhaust (unless you're installing a universal muffler) and that is with the manufacturer's instructions. Now unless you told the installer specific instructions on how to install your exhaust (like bending hangers or extend piping or something) then you should've checked it thoroughly before you left the shop the day of the install.
And now that you see that your exhaust is messing up your bumper, you're gonna blame the guy that installed it? So what if you installed it yourself, who would you blame then? Tanabe?