WARNING to anyone who needs body work

Discussion in 'NorthEast' started by SRTthis, May 1, 2008.

  1. SRTthis

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    STAY as FAR away from unique auto body as you can!

    about july last year i was hit my a drunk driver in my lightning. pictures are floating around somewhere but i can post them if you want more details if you want. i was hit in the passanger side rear tire. square in the tire. bent the wheel bent the axle bent the leaf spring broke the bed side. where i spun out into a guard rail i broke a head light corner light head light bucket grill surround fog light front bumper and bumper supports....

    needless to say after having it on the road 3 days i was quite pissed off.

    well about 2 weeks later i pick it up. paint looked ok when it was nice and cleaned up. once it rained it looked like complete ass. showed all the swirl marks that were there. also noticed that the leaf spring was still bent. but i had another issue. when i got up to abotu 60mph it shoke the truck like a bitch. never did it before rode very smooth. so i took it back and told them to replace the leaf spring and figure out what the hell was shaking the truck.

    turns out it was a bent axle, stock lightning axles are 34 spline and just over an inch thick. guess they didnt notice that the truck shook REALLY bad on there test drive. i also asked for them to check the traction bars and make sure they are ok. if they were a set of lakewood slappers i wouldnt care. ill replace them just so those asshats dont have the chance to screw anything up. but a 430 set of metco upper links is a different story.

    well last night i jack the truck up to start putting my new exhaust on. well the bassani comes with a bracket that bolts to the spring perch. well i look at the perch to see what size wrench i need. and i notice something

    MY FUCKIN TRACTION BAR BRACKET IS BROKEN! THOSE STUPID FUCKS NEVER EVEN LOOKED AT IT!

    so i went up there yesterday to bitch, they didnt follow a simple instruction to make sure everything is ok with them. so they are going to call the adjuster to see what statefarm will do about it. i personaly DONT GIVE A SHIT who cuts me the check. that shop WILL NOT be installing them. if they couldnt follow the simple instruction to check the traction bar bracket and make sure everything is ok. i hate to see how bad they screw up a set of adjustable traction bars.
     
  2. markus

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    unique as in will castro unique? if so, ive hear endless nightmare stories about them. i gotta dig up a link, but from what i hear everything is haphazardly put together hastily
     
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    unique autobody in falston maryland
     
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    i was going to ask where this was....that's a pretty common name for a shop lol
     
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    I have my own bodyman as my bro and he does all kinda crazy work.