lophat
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Man that's pretty bad...I took 5 minutes to weld some shitty 3/16 plate over top of the front lower control arms (which is something i'd never do and actually roll a truck), but the bags still lay nice and flat without me trying much at all!
Shit man, I just don't get it...how could you sleep nights?
I try to go overboard to make sure people don't get hurt rolling in shit i've done...and I still worry about my work, and have people come back every couple months to make sure all is well...usually just ask them to buy me lunch or something and call it even.
I just gotta shake my head at that one...good luck straightening that mess out. I actually refuse those fix it projects now, for fear i'll overlook something and it'll come back to haunt me.
One time I fixed a rear bag job for a guy, just a one day thing, cause there were no gussets, and the notch wasn't fully welded, and there was no braces between the notches out back...and shit was all over the place.
Well they cut 3/4 of the bed out so there was no need for me to take the bed off to work on it. Well the previous shop only had 2 bolts holding the bed down and one of them came loose and the bed started flopping about. Well the dude tryed to blame me for not putting his bed bolts in, and I had to remind him HE came crying to ME to fix his piece of shit...and that I did'nt ever remove the damn bed bolts. I just fixed what I was told to fix, and what I thought would be a danger in terms of safety.
I even cut him a deal on the price!
I'm done with it, in the end he was able to see that a shop that left half his shit un-welded & had about 10 packs of zip ties holding EVERYTHING in place instead of proper fasteners may not give a shit about bed bolts...and he apologized and saw reason. But I vowed that was it...never again...take your fucked up ride to someone who gives a shit, cause I don't.
Usually they are the same dudes that ask me how much to do their stuff, I give them a price and they say it's too high. Then Bob What's His Name down the way quotes the job for 3 grand less than me and they go with it...then want me or some other shop to fix the damage...still shaking my head.