View Full Version : (Another) Tale of Regal Woe
Went to pick up a valver on the weekend, with all work/receipts etc from Regal.
The bloke took it Regal with the XE already in the car with a set of Twin 45s with a BRAND NEW SBD inlet and throttle linkage etc...
(No loom etc)
Regal said that the conversion wasnt good enough and recommended that he get them to do it 'properly'! ?2k later it was in....
He then gets a call from them explaining that his carbs were wrecked beyond repair and no good, so they would have to fit a loom and Regal 'Power Cap' (?350)
He gets the car back and it breaks down in a week and he has to tow it 100 miles to his house! He complains....
Regal explain he will need to take it back to them on a trailer (even though they picked t up firstly)
Bloke ran out of money so car was left, and he was left with a bill for just under ?3000 and NO CARBS!!
Thats right Regal kept them and the maifold and the linkages etc!!!!! :evil: :evil:
Just for discussion! I know he should have gone nurts and stormed he place, but he lost all faith in the car! :(
DISCLAIMER: This is not the view of me (honest!!) or the site. It is from an irate third party!! :wink:
http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/
jkhilton
11-05-04, 03:32 PM
LMAO@Fester
has he been back to regal or at least called them to find out where the carbs are? surely even if they are broken beyond all repair he should be able to get them back with the linkages and stuff or did he let them keep them in return for a discount(or judging by the story, he exchanged them for a shafting!)
John
Philsutton
11-05-04, 04:00 PM
rough arse b****ds
if any parts are replaced by a company, they shud give you them bk or ask you if they shud dispose of them
Sounds like they cuda sold them on and thats a trading standards query.
I wud defo b on the blower, poor guy!
id be stormin down there armed with a hefty bat, demanding my ?100's worth of part back (shady tw@ts) :twisted: :twisted:
definatly get on to trading standards and anyone else who mite be able to help, companies cant get away with that, SHOULDNT IT BE CLASSED AS THEFT??
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They originally quoted him ?800 and after having the car for a month rang him and said unless he brought donw another ?1200 they wouldnt do anything else until it was all payed for.
From talking to him (as he was embarressed to say directly) we worked out he had about 5 trips in the car before it broke down for good.
The guy called out another mechanic who took a look at the car and refused to touch it due to the state of the conversion etc.
After being there for less than ten minutes we discovered a massive fuel leak, an abandoned Lambada sensor (that isnt needed???) and a few other blatent faults and just random untideness like ecu rattling about etc.
hendrix
11-05-04, 05:58 PM
SHODDY!!
I know (kinda) how he feels bout losing all faith in the car. Like how i wanted just to scrap mine when i saw my sh!te paint job!! :cry:
namkeaps
11-05-04, 06:42 PM
so let me get this straight? this regal company did a shoddy conversion which was confirmed by another mechanic?
and he aint gone down there and complained BIG STYLE!?
maybe the lad deserves it then. im sorry but if i was that soft i would expect people to run train tracks over me and spit me out the other side
someone needs to have a word and tell him what to do before its too late imho
another f**K up from the famous regal autosport!!!!!
Reckon someone should email them a link to this thread, and all the other threads about there balls ups.
novahead
11-05-04, 08:29 PM
i would f**k in there and make them do it, :o
gutted i never knew regal were as dodgy as that
All what me and Will have said is what the guy told us the weekend, all this happened about 18 months ago and he has had the car in his garage since.
I cant imagine someone making it up, after all he didnt gain from it thats for sure.
Rick Draper
11-05-04, 11:21 PM
xxxxx are the biggest cunting cowboys in the business, i would rather ram a fistfull of wasps up my ass than take my car to them. Backup and support from what i have been told is 0 from them. I recon if i was given a pound for every person they had ripped off i would have a good few million quid now and probably have a maybach as well :lol: :lol: Rick
All the views in this post are my own views and have nouthing to do with the site in anyway.
cooper_nova
12-05-04, 12:08 AM
:o :o !!!!
aren't regal supposed to be a top vaux specialist????
sounds like a bunch of untrained chips cud do better than them!!!
:evil:
[quote="Ben"]
The guy called out another mechanic who took a look at the car and refused to touch it due to the state of the conversion etc. [quote]
get him 2 get on to trading standards definatly in that case, and see if the other mechanic will do him a report stating all the faults etc with the conversion. with some help from trading standards he should be able to take them to small claims court for the money he has been robbed of 4 the dodgy conversion and the 45's etc
cant see it ever getting sorted out tho unless he is prepared to actually do something about it, rather than just keep throwing more money at the cowboys and accepting the shit they throw at him.
would you let anyone keep your twin 45s and everything else?????
i know i would never have ever left the place without getting them back!
no disrespect meant at all but it sounds like he's being walked over by them and he's prepared to let em get away with it
He has sold the car now (to me)
result mate!!
in that case u kick off an see it ya can get some 45's back of em for the beast
GTE Girl
13-05-04, 07:21 PM
sounds like a load of crap to me.if all this happened about 18 months ago im not suprised the conversion looks a bit shoddy now.i mean how many people have looked at this car in 18 months ? how many times have the fuel pipes been removed to check for fuel flow? how many times has the ecu been removed to check for a fault ? its ok slagging them for gossip but think about it 18 months is a long time and 20 think they know it all mechanics later im not suprised the car looks in a crap state.
my advise dont take this as 100 % accurate.
and the fact your boyfriend works for them :!:
GTE Girl
13-05-04, 07:36 PM
that has nothing to do with it im just reading this laughing cos it dont add up.read it properly sounds like crap to me. :roll:
sounds like a load of crap to me.if all this happened about 18 months ago im not suprised the conversion looks a bit shoddy now.i mean how many people have looked at this car in 18 months ? how many times have the fuel pipes been removed to check for fuel flow? how many times has the ecu been removed to check for a fault ? its ok slagging them for gossip but think about it 18 months is a long time and 20 think they know it all mechanics later im not suprised the car looks in a crap state.
my advise dont take this as 100 % accurate.
If he paid good money to have the conversion done by 'professionals' why would he need to check the fuel lines for fuel flow? or remove the ECU to check for faults? :roll:
I know that if I went to a company such as Regal, Courtneays or any other large Vauxhall specialist and it went wrong after 18 months then I'd be pretty peeved.
that has nothing to do with it im just reading this laughing cos it dont add up.read it properly sounds like crap to me. :roll:
Theres no point sticking up for regal, your on a loosing battle! They are over priced, and there workman ship is piss poor. I have a number of stories to confirm this!
- exhaust being fitted with cable ties
- Supposidly new cambelts snapping after two weeks
- Side skirts being cracked, then sprayed with 2tone paint instead of 5tone!
Shall i go on...........
:roll:
He actually used the car for less than one month before it went tits up, he took 18 months to decide to part with it as it was upsetting him so much as no one would touch it and he couldnt afford another trip to a "vauxhall specalists" for them to look at it.
:lol: at GTE girl.
10 for effort! But as TWAG says, to stick up for them is fine. To change people's perception is near impossible!
There is just no excuse.
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