Who is waiting for a harness from Loyde Rascoe at Fastfieros? (Page 2/49)
Chicken McNizzle JUN 06, 01:27 PM
aris - hereby decree and declare that my previous statement is WAY in the wrong, 9 months as WAY too long...

Since loyde received payment, howmany followup emails/ phonecalls have you had with him?
aris JUN 06, 02:15 PM
Thanks for the support. I will not go into details as that will not be good for Loyde Rascoe.

My friend Kostas handled the communications between us. The phone calls and emails are many. Also I remember we asked him to define the time of delivery but to honor the deadline and not change it again....but that was not successful either.

Have in mind that there are only 3 Fieros here in Greece and it is hard to keep up with them. Every order from US is not for 1 or 2 items only as most of the times the parts pass from customs.

Can you imagine having all the parts shipped including auto transmission shipped with sea freight and you can't start the car because of a harness.
darkhorizon JUN 06, 11:21 PM

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Originally posted by Chicken McNizzle:

Dude, do you realize just how tedious and time consuming a harness is?

It's not some **** thats going to be slapped together over night, unless of course that was the turn around you were expecting, in which case there are PLENTY of other vendors here and abroad that are more than willing to take your cash and hand you a pile of wires.

Just calm down, stay in the car, and be still - you'll get your harness

Now, airing this out to the masses may have not been the wisest move when 1 singular phone call could have answered your question




While tedious, I think the $100 an hour he charges, you should get something in a timely manner.


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Can you imagine having all the parts shipped including auto transmission shipped with sea freight and you can't start the car because of a harness.



If you went through this much effort to get the parts, then why rely on the customs and such for a part you could have easily done inhouse?

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thismanyfieros JUN 07, 11:24 AM
he paid a pro to do it and have it done right...obviously that hasnt happened....not the first one.. probably wont be the last...lloyds work is very very sweet... just sucks ass reliability for time management seems to be a second thought....people get busy, things get forgotten...but that doesnt happen when you write things down on a calender....a deadline is a deadline in my books...hopefully lloyd speaks up and sets things straight....tim..
blackrams JUN 07, 11:53 AM

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Originally posted by JazzMan:
Me, I'm a big fan of the "do what you say and say what you do" modality, stuff like this bothers me because I like Loyde personally.

JazzMan



Yeppers, I wholeheartedly agree.

I seriously considered having Lloyde build me a harness but, I've seen a couple of threads like this that were unhappy customers not getting what they paid for when it was supposed to be delivered. Thus, my relunctance. I've not done any business with Lloyde so I can't comment on anything. What I can say is, in a community like ours, reputation is everything. If I held back doing business with Lloyde for rumored delivery reasons, just how many others are doing the same thing? It's all about reputation, good or bad. If you want to do business and are connected to this or any other forum, you need to keep your word and frequently communicate with the customer to keep him/her in the loop. Doing otherwise will only result in losing business and reputation.

Ron

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aris JUN 07, 02:10 PM
As thismanyfieros said I paid a pro to do that. Maybe it was easy to make the harness my self...but having in mind that I own a restaurant/plaza near the sea with many people visiting everyday and an other business selling construction material for houses it is very difficult to say I am going to build a harness when coming back home completely dead. You see I am busy too ...and not only Loyde Rascoe who does not appreciate my time and my money.

Why shall I appreciate his? He was not busy to accept my money. But of course it is easy to accept money and then ignore everybody who is in an other country.

Apart from that you are in US you can ask for help everywhere. As been said there are only 3 Fieros in Greece. It is cheaper to repair a Porsche here than a Pontiac.
Will-Martin JUN 07, 03:55 PM
It is my opinion that everyone on here should try to get in contact with Loyde before trashing him. Sometimes bad things happen to good people and I think Loyde has been through the ringer over the past couple of years with issues about his shop. If you look at his website now, you can see his contact information -

"I will respond to you as soon as possible. If you call during the day and I don't answer, just call back after 6pm-10pm.... My phone does not get a good signal in the shop these days. I switched to the iPhone and ATT."

I think he is honestly working as hard as he can and he told me that he is working on the harnesses EVERY DAY to get caught up. He even mentioned he might have a new location within the next couple of months more suited to a "storefront" type appearance and might actually even get to hire and train someone to help with the harnesses so he gets caught up and never gets behind again. I will let him expand on that is he wants, but again, my advice is to contact Loyde directly and get information straight from the horses mouth.. That is what I did and he told me my engine swap will be ready in July. (WOOT!!!) Wish you luck.

--Will
carbonfiber_kid JUN 22, 06:11 PM
I paid Loyde Rascoe over a year ago, May 2007, for some parts, one being a wireharness and I have still not recieved mine. He told me it would be a couple months max to finish my parts. I have tried contacting him many times to no avail. All i get are excuses and he did slip a couple time and mention he was trying to get a car time for someone. I like the fact he did not mind cashing my check but he sure seems to have a problem with doing the work. Here is the real kicker I can not even get him to send me my old wireharness parts and ecm back, so now i am out what i paid him plus my parts i bought for the swap. Come on in 13 months he could not find time to build a !@#$%^ wire hareness. He has done enough of these that he has to have it down to a science.

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IIKool JUN 23, 05:45 AM
WHY do we keep letting him do this?
revin JUN 23, 10:22 AM
nm

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