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In a word - Meticulous
Love it! With the fresh powder coat - you're the grey man. The bronze colour was a nice accent slash standout feature. Now it's a true sleeper
Thank you ! Yes indeed the bronze was a nice touch, however, somewhat too loud for the style i was going for. I will add some more touches to the exterior to make it stand out more, yet, not be loud, you will see.
Cheers
More to come
Regards
Mike
Audi RS4PRA | VW Golf MKV GT-Y | Audi A1 SportBack
Hello guys. Been some days that i was ready to update my build threads of all the cars, when I logged in to my threads, and saw all my pics gone missing. I thought i had gone overboard with bandwidth, but then I also remembered, that i have a premium account, so that doesnt happen. Long story short, I figured out what PhotoBucket had done.
So, currently, more than 8-9 years of build threads are useless. All that work and effort is lost.
And what is more, Photobucket gave us NO warning, nor did they send their thoughts on this change whatsoever.
I accept paying for using one's services. I dont accept being bullied into doing it, in such a non-professional way.
I cant tell right now how I will continue blogging my build threads, but i wil definitely WONT be paying photobucket not 400, but not even a single cent.
Cheers
Mike
Audi RS4PRA | VW Golf MKV GT-Y | Audi A1 SportBack
Then I also put some "normal" size tires, some 225.40.18s Yoko Paradas i was running in my A1 ,whereas there, i switched to some Michelin Pilot Supersports.
To who ever may help me on this issue i am having for the past 6 months. That is half a year.
-I found, a guy on instagram, named kcarbon, aka, Michael Ratcliffe, who was doing cf skinning parts.
After talking with him on some ideas, we agreed on doing parts for my Audi A1. First one, was the steering wheel i had retrofitted from an Audi TTs (8S), that we agreed i would ship to him in order to do the following.
-Cf top and bottom
-Alcantara sides with red stitching
-Alcantara retrim of the already trimmed airbag
-Cf airbag cover
-Paint the airbag ring in gloss black.
All these were agreed for a certain price, so i sent my steering wheel to Stockport, Cheshire where he is located.
He received the complete package. Then, I put the first payment through paypal so that he can start working on it. We are now at 16 November 2018.
He supposedly started working on it, and then on 21 of January 2019 he claimed the things were about to be ready, so asked for the second payment so as to complete. Again, no questions asked, i sent the payment again via paypal.
So my payment was complete on January 2019.
He sent me some pics of half-assed job on the steering whereas the other items were not done, and he said on the emails they are ready and i cannot see clearly. Whereas items were NOT touched. After enormous amounts of lies, on April, about 5 months later, i decide that i cannot take up any more lying, which included from hospital health issues, to family problems, to photos of the items that a guy with a dslr has, i file claims through paypal for my payments.
When payment number 1 is issued back to me, he then remembers to do the items, to a very bad level of craftmanship, and demands money back in order to ship them. I have the second claim on paypal pending. After months of lying, i simply cannot send money again to this guy.
There is a huge wave against him on instagram, from guys cheated and victims, known guys in the uk scene, with Audi R8s, Audi TTs, many many guys not having their parts and their money. I asked that he sent me the items ready, and a paypal invoice, but he simply wont go for it.
So he is threatening me that he has my steering wheel, which you know how much it costs.
I will probably get the full refund i paid for the service, but what i am asking from the UK car community is some help with this situation, someone living nearby, or being able to help in any way. It is very sad for us car enthusiasts to be scammed like that.
I have talked with my country's police, with eu consumer services, and Uk Action Fraud and have filed reports.
Please guys, if anyone can be of any help, please let me know. I appreciate it.
As with the Audi A1, same with the Golf, I went for a modification i have been wanting to do for quite some time now, but never got to it, due to not having found the proper company to tick all the safety and quality issues for me.
I wanted to install the new seatbelts, and also, remove the rear ones which are there for no reason. While i am at it, I would also change all the rear interior cards fittings with new ones. If anyone has experience from working on golf mkvs. he should know that in order to remove one thing, you have to remove ten more covering it like a domino. So you will see the amount of work it took, dont be surprised.
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