In a message dated 1/16/03 8:54:45 AM, fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET writes:

<< On 15 Jan 2003, zampano wrote:

Hello everybody,

. . . a bunch of details regarding negotiating with Fast German Auto . . .

he calls me 1 hour later and tells me he could do it for $1100, sounding
pissed off.>>

Matt,

Give them 1100?  I'd rather spend the money squaring an assault rap.

I am sorry to open a sore which in your mind may be healed, but I do not see
the upside for you in this remedy.  For your $1100 I feel all that you will
get is a lot of uncertainty provided by the same guys who did not perform in
the first place.  When they took on the work willingly, they screwed it up.
Now imagine what might happen when the work is done begrudgingly.  Find an
expert to assess the failure, then take the Fast boys to court.  Until the
engine is opened up, you have no idea of what they did.  For all you know,
they could have power washed a junkyard jewel then slapped on some new valve
covers.

George