You haven't mentioned price. That's an important consideration. But from what you have said so far, shop #3. They want to keep you happy. The other two know they may never see you again. IMO, personal relationships are very important.
Lou
Lou
price is about the same between the three.... all $90-100/hour.You haven't mentioned price. That's an important consideration. But from what you have said so far, shop #3. They want to keep you happy. The other two know they may never see you again. IMO, personal relationships are very important.
Lou
so do you feel it's not that imporant for an installer to be familiar wtih the lexus brand of car? Are you suggestingn I go to the shops and look at projects currently getting worked on or try to see finished products....? I'm such a newbie and know VERY LITTLE about cars so I'm not sure if I'd be able to detect quality from non-quality work...I would say a good shop. Go and check out the cars that are being worked on. Price should not be a factor. Quality should be!!
This is coming from a shop owner that deals with high end cars. Doug
Don't worry if they are or not familiar with the brand. Just look around, believe me you can tell! Also make sure you talk to who's going to actually do the work on the car.so do you feel it's not that imporant for an installer to be familiar wtih the lexus brand of car? Are you suggestingn I go to the shops and look at projects currently getting worked on or try to see finished products....? I'm such a newbie and know VERY LITTLE about cars so I'm not sure if I'd be able to detect quality from non-quality work...![]()
Anytime.. Good luck...Doug^^^^ thanks for all the input!!![]()
F'n around;29055 If I remember right said:I wasn't aware there was a way to get around dropping the engine...
So I finally was able to pick up my car today after the shop had it a total of 3 days to do the PPE Header install.They ended up only charging me for 10 hours of labor for the install, But now I have multiple issues/concerns:
First, is that the car doesn't even go into first gear in auto mode. I can force it to go into first using manual mode ONLY if i'm moving between 5-10mph or so. (I can't shift into 2nd while not moving) It's NOT in snow mode btw.
Second, is that the CEL came on about 5 min of driving the car. The shop said that this would happen until the cats are installed, but I'm confused as I thought the PPE headers came with an O2 sim kit that avoided this issue even without cats installed and I haven't seen ANYBODY on here complaining of CEL after PPE header intalls. I asked the shop guy about the O2 sim kit and he didn't seem to know what I was talking about and said that it only came with an O2 sensor extension wire for the front O2 sensor. Did PPE not send what they were supposed to?
Third, is that the slip indicator light (orange car icon with wavey lines below) is on AT ALL TIMES! (this also occured about 5 min after driving the car.) They did reset the ECU BTW.
Fourth, is that they had great difficulty and reportedly spent 5+ hours getting the oil dip stick tube to fit... Apparently they ended up using the OEM tube. (but this concerns me that they weren't able to use/make the supplied one with the PPE headers work?)
Fifth, is that they put a DEEP jagged 2.5" scratch in my front left wheel on one of the spokes... WTF !?!?I did call them immediately after I left the shop about the scratch but the other issues hadn't arisen yet so we did not discuss them.... He tried to tell me that they could "buff" the scratch out of the wheel... LOL GOOD LUCK! I"m thinking to myself. I'm now freaking out about this scratch because since the exact color code for the wheels isn't known getting a matching paint to try to fix it will be next to impossible... I've used the color mentioned on here the most ... phantom grey.... in the past on small chips/scratches (thanks to the dealership alignment
) and the color is TOO LIGHT!
I just had a wheel repainted a couple weeks ago that had been slightly damaged in a small accident I had 6 weeks after I got my IS F and the color is "close" but not exact and I'm not too keen on going this route either....![]()
At this point I'm just overwhelmed and frustrated about all of these issues and need some guidance FAST!
Thanks in advance as always!!!
BTW the car does SOUND SICK and SEEMS QUICKER TOO at least!![]()
HOLY CRAP!^^^^Your daler really screwed up. I'll have Paul call you tomorrow.
Lou