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Congratulations. You've reached the end of the internet.
Simply amazing.
I'm coming from a video game forum (http://boards.ign.com/ ). So, this drama has reached the end of the internet and everywhere in-between. I wish Todd and wife the best of luck in their legal action and I hope the dealership makes things right. |
Just have to say i agree with everyone here. I am a technician and the amount of cars i test driver a year is at least 100. i never hit 100mph on any of them. to call this guy a technician is a disgrace. i am a technician, he is a grease monkey. i have studied and trained to work on todays automobiles. this guy evidentally wasnt. this guy gives us technicians a bad name!:mad:
Poor Tod, no one every asked you this, but did anyone every figure out what was the original problem with your car? StangMan96, i would like fries with that please! HAHA! YOU DORK! |
WAAAAAAY COOL!?!?! What a loser?
This is why I buy old trucks and rebuild them. I drive a Ranger that is bagged (airliftcompany) and most service stations won't look at, and my local ford dealer doesn't even want to try and mess with it. It has a modified suspension... that's it. I can just imagine what this meathead tech would have done with my truck...10 bright chrome switches peekin' at him out of the console. I would have straight killed the guy if I would've saw him bounce by me... or read it on some msg board. We at at minitrucks@yahoogroups.com are behind you. Hope everything goes well. Hey, and if the owner of that beat on Stang happens to get a new ride can I have the motor out of her old one? FBC representin' the minis.
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Greetings from S2Ki and Starquestclub.com.
I too joined to express my discontent over this. It's not as if I can make any sort of difference, or say something that hasn't already been said, but I wanted to throw my 2.6 and 2.0¢ in. To Strangeman96. I'm not going to slam you for what you did, there has been enough of that already, and with good reason, I'm just going to say that if you ever get another decent job and buy a nice car I hope this very thing that you've done happens to you. If you spend the big dollars for a very nice Sports Car/Muscle Car then you have the right to treat it how you so desire, if you do not spend that hard earned money I don't feel you have the right...even if it was purchased by a parent. Someone had to work hard for that money, and to show such blatent disrespect for the work that provided the means for your joy is an abomination. You will get what you deserve, maybe not today or even tomorrow, but your payback is coming...it's not an "if", it's a "when". Andrew |
Oh man!
This sucks!
Im glad i dont own a Ford, but if i did, i wouldnt take it to NS Ford thats for sure! Hope everything turn out fine Tracy! |
Greetings from OBDII and Speed Street
Is there anybody in the world left who hasn't heard of this yet? I just hope the car lives a full happy life and didn't sustain any 'hidden' damage. |
Wow!!! reading this I don't know who to take my car too now! I sure as hell wouldn't goto the ford dealer if I owned one after reading what that ******* did!! Dont these places give interviews before they hire monkeys like that???:mad: :mad:
Yup this post made it on the porsche site www.rennlist.com aswell as revscene.com Good luck on getting what you deserve from thr abuse you got!! |
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just registered after finding this site on another board that has nothing to do with cars, I see this subject grew fast and hope stangman96 learned a lesson about the way to treat the property of others, just wrong to treat someone's property badly when you are spossed to be in charge of fixing it!!
Anyone interested in a reliable auto repair shop in C.C. TX let me know..as my sis and her hubby are owners there and have been in business for about 6 years now. |
S.A. Ford Service departments.
Hello, saw the thread over on www.gixxer.com and www.vosaclub.org and would like to offer my condolences to the owners of the Mustang.
Too bad this "***&^n dumb customers" attitude is common at Gillespie Ford also. I can't get my 2k1 Taurus fixed and it's been there at least 3 times for the same problem. How hard is it to fix a broken gas gauge anyway?? |
Holy sheep ****, 143,206 views!!!
I think this might even have more views than that Civic vs. C5 Vette thread on the Corvette forum last spring, but its been a while since I've looked at that. I just heard about this about an hour and a half ago at Toronto Protege Club and I've been reading most of these posts. Everyone over there sends their sympathy for the owners, and their hate to that bastard tech. I worked at a car dealership and know that not all techs are like that. And, being someone who has wanted a Mustang since I can't remember when, this pissed me off even more to know that there is some bastard out there that does **** like that. My car is really nothing special, except to me, and if I even found out someone did that **** to it, not that it could reach 140mph ( its governed at 115mph) I'd sodomize them with a lawnmower and give them a saltwater/diesel fuel enema. Now that I've put in my 2 cents, I'll take my leave and maybe return when I've bought a mustang. |
well, guess i should check in too. good luck in any further actions from www.importatlanta.com and www.miata.net.
hope you get the compensation that you truly deserve. i see the tech already got what he deserved. |
im a tech at an SVT dealership here in FL, and i cannot wait untill another 03 cobra comes in, because i will beat the living piss out of that car, just becuase you got this tech fired.
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Oh, Brother where art thou?
These guys must be related... are they cousins and brothers, or is dad, brother..... Must be inbred that's all I know...
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bring your car into an svt dealership in northern FL and take your chances , and no im not related to him, or even know him, i just know what goes on that the customers arent aware of, and im willing to bet that the manager knew what he did to this car, but had to have him fired just please the customer, ive seen it before.
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I hope that the thing that you care most about in the world and work hard to achieve gets equally abused as much as you do unto others. Oh yeah.. and the next time you go to McDonald's pay attention to how they tell the difference between LARGE fries and SUPERSIZE fries.. that way when you start working there you'll be able to get my order right. |
Has anyone thought of bringing this up to www.blueovalnews.com I'm sure they would be all over this!! By the way sorry to hear about this. And stangman as an owner of a 90 LX sport your the reason I do all my own work. If I can't figure it out and have to take my car somewhere I stay with her till she's done.
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:rolleyes: Wow, I've gotta say, I thought the the american guy on the Lexus IS300 forum who coated his new tyres in silicon spray then drove in the wet was a classic but this....ROFL!!!
Soz to hear about your car being raped, at least you have your wifes car back undamaged (in the short term). This thread has reached the 'Performance Metro Forum' (NOT geo metro) in England. You know if it makes it onto the National news then I think that may be enough of a lesson for the guy. I hope the SVT centre doesnt lose too much business because of one guy as it seems to be the only place in San Antonio as was previously mentioned. Anywho, see you later, hope you have enough space for all the replys ;) Regards, Matt Wain Speedycougar Performance Metro Club Tamar Valley Mini Club [England] |
hahaha
I'm sure it was WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY COOL to get fired also :).
I'm postin to show my support, hopefully he got fired.(And if it was posted that he did I only read till page 12) |
O bruthur, yous gy's iz shure intellygunt...
The SVT tech from Florida has got to be related to the numbnut in Texas.... How could he overlook such a blatent diss? I mean I understand what it means when someone calls you inbred.... Hey, Dipsh*t. You were just insulted.... I don't think I'd even let these SVT "techs" work on my bicycle.
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any tech or mechanic that rags on or beats the piss out of a customers cars need a good beating. if i ever found out about someone doing that with my car i would either punch him in the face till something broke or stomp him with my cork boots (many spikes on the sole of the boot). bloody losers they are.:mad:
yeah and this thing has reached our clubs site in vancouver too www.vancouverstangers.com . |
just checking in from www.LS1.com
for those that dont know what a LS1 is, its the engine that can be found in 97-up Corvettes and 98-up Fbodies (camaro-firebirds) The real reason this guy got canned was for posting someones license plate on a public forum. I think he was lying about doing 140, most people that brag like this also stretch the truth as well. |
wow this thing is up to 15 pages now? i havent posted on it since page 2
OK everyone on the internet now hates me and thinks im a moron for defending this guy. ill concede that my comments were innapropriate. I was trying to point out that he indulged in a guilty pleasure that MOST of us would have done as well. Dont pretend you are all perfect, right minded people that wouldnt have taken advantage of the situation as well. We all know ourselves inside and know that while it is not right, we would have done the same thing. I of course would have been pissed too. He deserves what he got, and it sure looks like this has been a happy ending: He got fired, wont be able to be a mechanic anywhere in the USA, the cobra is (thankfully) ok, and im sure the owner will be compensated in some way. I want to apologize for my earlier comments (so please try to stop flaming ive been flamed enough) but even the forum moderator was singing a similar tune to mine initially. just think before you judge. Think about what you would do with those keys in your hand. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" |
What a saga.
I'm always the last to hear of these things--I had to follow a link from the FatWallet Finance forums to find my way over here. The worst part of this? This guy was closer to the norm than the exception. When my current car was 1 week old I took it to my normal country club. On the 3rd hole, I see my $63,000 automobile flying across the *GRASS* behind the club! Needless to say, I immediately got the club manager, we both met the valet on his way back in. The guy had a bottle of Gatorade and a candy bar with him--took my car to the convenience store!! Anyhow, as many have said, our thoughts are with the owner of this car. A 2003 Cobra is an amazing machine, and the owners of this car deserve whatever reparations may come their way. I have bookmarked this thread and the svtforums thread, looking forward to seeing developments down the road. Good luck! |
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My experience has been that those who suggest that "everyone does it" are just rationalizing away their own antisocial tendencies and trying to make them seem acceptable. That statement may not apply to you; I don't know you and can't make that judgement. My point is that it has generally applied to the people I've known who made similar arguments to yours in other situations and THOSE people were generally prone to a lack of respect for other people and their property. You will need to decide if this particular shoe fits. I hope for your sake that it doesn't. And BTW, I am 49, do have gray hair, AND own 2 classic Mustangs that I'm not especially gentle with, plus a '68 Cougar undergoing restoration. I've been driving and racing since I was 16. I've done dumb things and survived them, but I never kidded myself afterward that they weren't dumb just the same. |
Sympathies from the Texas Impreza Club
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Texas Impreza Club checking in... this is an atrocity! This kind of crap just is just plain bad news. I work for a dealership, and yes, the tech's will do everything in their power to PROPERLY diagnose a problem (most of which can be found by plugging into the OBD-II) Our techs will go out and diagnose road problmes at NORMAL operating speeds/situations. See the emphasis on "normal" (not 140mph) This guy is a moron, plain and simple. Sorry to hear about this. -Kevin |
Saw this posted over at www.psronline.org
what a tool.....i havent read this entire thread...but i dont have too.. you just dont do that ****. if it was me....he can keep his job...however he would have a nice meeting with a "slugger" GET DA BAT!!!!!! schmacked ***! |
Heard about this over on the Viperclub.org forum. Serves the tech right to be fired. I work for Ford and it really pisses me off the hear this. And to some people that say people deserve it if they don't work on their own cars. What a shame to think that way. I do all the work on my cars that I can, but if there is a warranty issue I sure as heck would rather have someone else do the work for free.
I bought a used 1996 Viper GTS 3 years ago. It was a month before the original warranty was up, so I brought it in to get a few minor issues fixed since what the hell it was free and wouldn't be in another month. I had one issue that required road testing-which was a rattle in my rear hatch. Kinda bugged me you know. Anyways, I go to pick the car up after a few days and I over hear some mechanic in the back room bragging about see that Viper sitting outside, well I raced my buddies Vette with it and this and that. Then I get in the car and there are 40 miles on the odometer from when I dropped it off, 40 miles to road test for a rattle!!!! Plus the a hole scratched my dash bad when they took my CD player out for repair and they overfill the crankcase oil by 3 quarts. Frickin great. Then the service manager tells me his tech said this is the fastest Viper he has ever driven. Thanks a lot, I really wanted to hear that. And all the service manager does after I fill his ear with all this is offer me a free oil change. A free oil change!!!!! Well F you Bob Saks Dodge dealership in Farmington Hills, Michigan. I won't go back there again and told all my Viper owning buddies not to either. Then a year later I get rear-ended slightly and take it to a body shop. I write down the mileage and when I pick it up there are 25 extra miles on it and a near EMPTY gas tank instead of half full like I left it. The manager said the car never left his lot and they kept it inside the whole time. But, I see pictures on there own website with my car sitting outside in the rain. But, I began to doubt if I put down the right mileage and believed the manager since he seemed honest, UNTIL I unfortunatley get rear-ended again 6 months later and I over-hear this conversation in the back room. Did you guys see that Viper out there? It is so sweet, I wonder what it is like to drive it? Then some other guy in the back room said the last time I had it in they took and drove it up and down the street for a long time and had a blast with it. Some people have said this can be considered Grand Theft Auto as the person has driven it without your permission. Good thing this isn't the wild west or I would have shot the Viper mechanic and body shop mechanic DEAD in their tracks!!!!!!!!!! Justice has been served against this dumb *** Mustang tech. Cheers to the owner of the car that got him fired. Haaaaaaaaaaaaa. Won't be any cars he can joy ride in at Burger King. Unfortunately there are a lot of techs like this out there in all brands of car dealerships, so beware. There are a lot of good ones too, but unfortunately it only takes one bad one to give the dealership a bad name. |
Dumb *** ******!
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Another TERRORIST act performed in September and with the magnitude of responses, Might I suggest giving this Ex ford tech a perminent nickname:
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celica.net now is aware of the situation also! wow you are beyond screwed. i feel for anyone whos had this happen to them.
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Why I traded my '01 Cobra
www.bimmer.org (E46 board) has the article, now, too.
This is a BIG reason why I traded my '01 Cobra in on an '03 BMW 330Ci. Lot techs at dealerships that deal with all price groups of cars (particularly the entry-level models) just seem to go ape when they get a hold of one of the pricier, high-performance rides. I'm talking about the domestic manufacturers like Chevy, Ford and Dodge. It's not much fun wailing on a base 4-door Cavalier or Neon but a 405hp Corvette or Viper? Yee-haw! I suppose that the Nissan lot-techs are going to have a field day when the 350Zs start coming in for routine work, too. I'm hoping that if the lot-techs are used to moving high-dollar rides around like Benz, Lexus, Porsche and their ilk (and anal-retentive owners of said cars who pay extra attention to them), they'll be a whole lot less likely to be beating on the cars when they get the chance. Man, after reading this saga, am I glad I traded my Cobra. |
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I am the owner of a lowly Atlantic Blue 99 Mustang Coupe. I heard about this on various computer hardware and pc game enthusiast sites, and despite the lowliness of my vehicle I can still sympathize with the victims of this blatent lack of maturity.
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If Ford requests the IP of the user and threatens legal action, I am pretty sure that the webmaster must divulge the IP number. Either way I am reporting this post to a few PR contacts I know at Ford HQ in Dearborn. I am sure they would be interested in getting these kinds of morons as far away from their brand as possible, since it is little morons like these that tarnish a businesses image. Once they have the IP it is only a matter of finding out which ISP the IP leads to and then the ISP will pretty much give Ford the name, number and address attached to it. The Internet does not afford you as much anonymity as you might think. |
Saw this on www.syty.net. All I can say is wow, I read all of it and it is mind blowing that people would defend this idiot. I hope justice is served and you get a new car at least. I work for a firestone dealer and have the same urges but I hold back, maybe its because its nothing new or its just I respect the person that much, I don't know but I agree with what some people said, You live in texas time for a cook out Flip the switch. If I ever take my Syclone anywhere and found out this happened I can't even imagine what I would do. All I can say is good luck hopefully everything will work out in the end for you, sorry to hear about that.
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what a moron... what a loser... what a real *********. Really. And those of you who defend him? Wow. Wish I could be the one to drive YOUR cars... I would trash your car in a heartbeat and say "Yo, dude, it was soooooo cool."
He violated the customer's trust for the care and maintenance of her sports car. He displayed a type of unprofessionalism that will keep him moving from job to job... he abused a car that wasn't his (a plague of the younger generation is "oh well, it isn't mine, but what the hell..."). He out and outright committed a crime which he SHOULD be arrested for and punished both criminally and civilly... but unfortunately, the US court system is weak and you would probably get some lame judge to let him off on the 'first offense'. If it was MY car, I would find the dude and destroy him. -R |
i saw this story on d silveradoss.com site, man u have got 2b d dumbest *** 2 do such a thing and 2 post on a message forum
racerat sorry 2 hear about what happenedto your cobra, this fool needs 2b taken out back , and get d livin **** beat out of him. |
Greetings from Altimas.net
Just wanted to say that we feel your pain and send our condolences. The idiot got what he deserved! http://www.altimas.net/forum/showthr...threadid=61054 |
Salutations,
This topic is very hot on a lot of different forums. I have browsed this forum for some time now but never became a member due to lack of a Mustang (sorry). Me and the entire Beretta.net community express our deepest sympathy. Hopefully justice will be served. Its sad to see anything like this happen to anyone. |
Man what a DOLT ! (Any more info)
WOW this has now reached the VW Aircooled forums and even now the Model Rocketry Forums !!
Total Moron !! Wonder why no more posts from him :-) It would be interesting to hear to here from stangman96 now :-) I have a couple rockets to shove up your ***** I am really curious as to what is happening with this. What was the outcome? what happened ? did it hit the local news ? Newspaper clippings ? Video from TV reports if any ?? Anyone gonna make a website to track and record all of this ? Would be fascinating considering how FAR AND WIDE this topic has gone. I have never seen THIS much participation in something from such a wide arena of geographical locals and differing interests. Truly an impressive example of the internet and the will of the people when they put there minds to it. As for the victums here. racerat is it ? Soooo do you own his mustang yet? :-) I am not into sports cars but they are beautiful machines !! Good Luck and someone UPDATE us (real world info) I know racerat can not update us (not advisable from a legal perspective) and we are not likely to hear from stangman again. :-) but I crave information !! Chris Taylor http://www.nerys.com/ 74 VW Thing 88 Jeep Cherokee (3" Lift 31" muds) 11 ft long rocket glider |
From the Conquest/Starion world of www.starquestclub.com and the Beretta community www.beretta.net.
I'd have to say that his job is not all I would of wanted stripped from him, if I had ever heard that one of my rare cars had been mis-treated like this by a so-called 'expert'. I'm in hopes that the owner of this car would receive some form of retribution from the dealership, or if even a class action suit would be in order to repay her for this act. Maybe the world wide coverage of this topic will shed some light on dealerships and technicians everywhere, that this form of abuse will not be tolerated. I feel his name should be plastered out to all dealerships and repair facilities in hopes that he wouldn't land a job to where he can do this to any one else's car's. And any other technician's caught doing the same or similar deeds should fall the same fate as him. |
Just wanted to pop in and say this subject has even reached the gaming and help board community. I found a link at Help From Techs msg board and since spread it to a couple Quake 3 Arena clan sites and also at Tweak3d.
Glad the tech got busted. Hope all turns out well for the owner. I don't think I can say anything more that hasn't already been spoken. Cheers, [em]dAm www.emclan.com |
greetings from www.bayarearidersforum.com
just showing support for the couple with the post :D hope everything turns out good for you guys and get the compensation that you deserved. stangman96: hahaha maybe you should get yourself branded with an "L' in the forehead. loser spikey flip |
BLoody Moron.
Well, I'm not a Mustang Enthusiast, but I agree with the lot of you. This guy was a moron, not specifically for taking the Joy Ride, but for posting all the nessicary information about the car to get him into deep ****.
I'm visiting the forum here from The Evercrest Forums and the people who have posted agree with you all as well. I drive a 1990 Acura Integra RS, and I may only push it to 140km/h (roughly 70-80mph) I wouldn't let anyone else behind the wheel that I don't trust. Damn car is too old to be pushed too far anyways. I hope this guy gets all that he deserves, and that we can hear how everything went from Todd and his wife. Ciao! |
To the owner of the Cobra. You have support of ClubB5 behind you 100%.
To the idiot who created this thread; I hope you get what you've asked for. You give bad name to every mechanic in the trade. You don't belong in your profession. May the fraze "Would you like fries with it" sound in your ears every day. |
I am representing two different boards here today. One being SaturnFans.com the second being Grand Am Owners Club We all feel terrible about the missue of her car. And hope that justice is done to make everything right. We stand by you completly!
And to to the mechanic-your attitude is terrible and I personally hope you get what you deserve in life! |
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Just checking in from off-road.com
I think he should get tarred and feathered, then tied to a fast moving train. Even off-roaders can feel for the owner! |
waaay cooool
Unbelievable the way this thread turned out. And someone wanted to end it. My addition is this,chances are that car got tested by alot of people, besides the owner, when they drove it out of the factory and parked it on the lot, the guy who drove it onto the train, the guy who drove it off the train at the other end, and the dealer. I know some people who offloaded cars from trains and they could tell you which cars were the quickest. The guy was an idiot if he hit 140 unless he was out in the desert somewhere. Anyway he will lose his job. Poor Todd if I was you I'd get my money back on that lemon and go get a vette.
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