It Was Waaaaaaaaaay Cool

[MiracleMax]

Originally posted by sleeper400
[B]From a strictly diagnostic viewpoint, he was doing his job./B]

hmmmm...not at 140 and some things are better left to yourself.

[sleeper400]

Isn't that kind of what I said? "And some things are better left to yourself." Could you please explain this a bit?

[StangFlyer]

At the request of Tracy (RaceRat), who owns the 2003 Mustang Cobra Convertible this whole controversy started over, I am posting a statement she sent me via Email. In addition, at her request, I am now also closing this thread.

On a personal note, I am glad that the forum MustangWorks.com provides to all its members and readers was able to play a pivotal role in helping one of our fellow enthusiasts not only find out she had been wronged, but give her the power to right that wrong and bring the power of public pressure to bare. Hopefully this will bring about a positive change within the automotive service industry. As, what played out here was the fear of almost every automotive enthusiast and what we all know is an all to common occurrence. Hopefully the next time someone's pride and joy is entrusted to the care of an automotive professional, and the business he/she works for, there will be extra thought paid to how that enthusiast's vehicle and trust is treated.

I'm at a loss on how to start this reply. I never expected the response this topic has generated. Folks from all over the world put aside their differences and stood together as one to demand respect. I don't think this really had anything to do with cars or dealerships... but instead trust and fair treatment.

Stangman96, I sincerely hope this opened your eyes. Treat others the way you wish to be treated. The world would be a much better place if everyone did this.

I'm sure you all want to know the outcome of this fiasco. Stangman96 and the technician who was with him were terminated. Stangman96 was not the SVT/Mustang specialist he stated he was. He was not supposed to be driving the car and the work-order for my car stated as such. This is the reason he was fired.

It can't be proved or disproved he took the car to the speeds he claimed and for the record, the abandoned airstrip he claimed to have done this on doesn't exist. Thank God no one was hurt or killed by his possible reckless driving on public roadways.

Northside Ford and I have come to an agreement and the issue is resolved. Though they are not admitting any liability, they have taken appropriate measures to satisfy all of my concerns regarding this incident.

I will be taking my car to them for warranty service in the future as I honestly believe nothing like this will happen again. It may be the safest place in the country to take your car now. :-)

Thank you to all who posted their support. You have been heard worldwide and believe me, the dealerships are listening. Also, I have no desire to seek revenge against, or physically harm to, the original poster... but thanks for all the offers. ;-)

Mustangworks.com and SVTPerformance.com... thank you for the awesome boards! I know the onslaught of traffic caused you some major headaches.

To my Mustang friends in San Antonio and elsewhere... you guys are GREAT! Johnny at TEAM EXTREME RACING in San Antonio, thank you for everything... good guys do finish first!

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Tracy (RaceRat)
2003 Sonic Blue Cobra Convertible

From the entire Mustang Works Staff, you are welcome Tracy. We are glad we could provide you help and support just by keeping the site functional during this fiasco. For the record, and the curious, the original post was made on Friday, September 20th.

However, it really caught fire and was widely noticed on Wednesday, September 25th. By 11 PM that night word of this thread and links to it had spread to several hundred message boards. Wednesday night at that time our web server was taking 1300 requests per second, which literally brought it to a halt. This is when I personally became aware of the thread, what was happening regarding it, and the serious server load situation on our single dedicated web server.

On Thursday evening, just to keep the site functioning, we acquired a dual processor server box and spent until 6 AM Friday morning just getting it configured, up and running, and moving the forums over to it. As such, you may have noticed at that time the forums were then being forwarded the IP address of the new server. This kept the forums alive, and the load off the rest of the site, but it was still getting so hammered that even the new box being completely dedicated to the forums couldn't fully keep up.

Additionally, we were told on Thursday, September 26th, news about this controversy and MustangWorks.com was discussed on Deminski & Doyle's Detroit's 97.1 FM radio. Then, we also heard that on Friday September 27th, news about the thread and MustangWorks.com was discussed during Detroit's famous WRIF 101 FM's Drew & Mike's morning radio show. Furthermore, Tracy has indicated that it was also on local TV in San Antonio, and that she was also contacted by several print magazines regarding this story.

Finally, for several days our servers were transferring like 25 GB's of data each day and receiving millions of page views each day. Mustang Works servers are connected to the Internet via a 2.5 Mbit pipe. For almost five days straight the data transfer was at a 2 MBit average with bursts to our 2.5 MBit maximum, and that is with GZip compression being utilized on our web servers too. Fortunately, our connection and our SCSI raid database server muddled through it all... Furthermore, our simultaneous who's online count on the forums hit 1000+ on October 2nd.

Well, things have died back down a bit, but all we can say here is WOW! NO ONE should doubt the power of the Web.