First I wrote a complaint to the Better Business Bureau. From the very beginning I was told by a legal friend that the Better Business Bureau would not do a thing about it. This proved to be true, but I had to go through the moves.
I have had people tell me to sue the place of business. My friend, again, told me that to follow this route would only cause them to counter sue and could take a while to settle, not to mention the legal fees.
My next course of action has been to contact the Attorney General's Office of Ohio. It has been only a week since they received my complaint. As soon as I hear from them I will post the results here.
April 25th, 2006
I borrowed the money and got another motor put into my truck. Just got it back today. Hmmmm, the motor is great, runs good and sounds good! Remember when Dick's Complete Auto "re-wired" my turn signal switch? I had him check it because, at times, the left signal was not flashing and when the truck was turned off while I stepped on the brake a buzzer would sound.. Well, it is doing the same thing it did before they "re-wired" it, but I just now discovered that if my lights are turned on and I turn the left signal on my flashers work. It doesn't show the flashers working on the dash, only the left turn signal. A friend stopped me and showed me this so I would never have known otherwise. My question is, did it work this way when I got it back from Dick's after they fixed it and just did not know, since I almost always drive with my lights on? Just another thing to chalk up to Dick's Complete Auto & Muffler and his professional technician.
May 1st, 2006
Oh the more I think about things the more I realize how emotionally upset I was with everything going on at that time. It was when I took my truck in the first time to get the tail pipe secured that the mechanic came out with a "piece of honeycomb" from the catalytic converter. That is when they said I needed a new one. I didn't have it fixed right then because I didn't have the money. So, why in the world would they have the catalytic converter off if all they did was put a hanger on?
More on my electrical problem. Not only does the buzzer sound when I step on the brakes, the parking lights do too. When I take my foot off the brakes, the buzzer stops and the lights go out.
May 10th, 2006
Oh my, the more I learn. I just got my truck back again, I took it in for the electrical problem to be fixed, that was SUPPOSED to have been fixed by Dick's Auto. Let me tell you this, I did not say a word to the mechanic about Dick's putting on new shocks. Anyway, the mechanic told me that who ever put the shocks on must have used a torch to cut the old ones off and when they did they hit some wiring and melted them together. Hmmm, lets see, I paid him to fix something that they broke to begin with, then they didn't fix it and I had to pay someone else fix it right. God, I can't believe I have been so stupid!
TO BE CONTINUED..........