Cascade Crew

iansane · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: New pictures of the bird!

Yeah. Needless to say I'm pissed. These guys have a little sign in their lobby saying something to the effect of "the best measure of a business ability is the referel of a customer" and saying 100% for the last month (sept 06) I'm thinking if they want to keep that at 100% they shouldn't be asking me.

The guy says, "well I was expecting it to take this long, it's so hard to find parts for these cars. We couldn't find a front bumper so we sent it to a company to be repaired"
Uh...what? There was an 8in long jagged tear, the metal frame was torn to crap on both ends and the front lip, both foglight openings were torn up. I wish they didn't jerk me around and would've told me this shizzle last week I could've been looking for parts and obviously having better luck finding them

Regardless, I need to find a front bumper cover and FAST. I'm not letting them paint (which they want to attempt on monday) a "repaired" bumper cover" If you guys know of any, or any JYs I can call. Let me know ASAP. Even If I don't have the cover in hand I can tell them I have it on the way.

And to top it off, I think they're going to try and replace my cracked clear sidemarker with a stocker. There was a stocker sitting in my driver seat next to the broken clear one when I was there.

I'm slightly aggrivated.

Demon · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject:

Ian, just so you know...

http://www.trademotion.com/partlocator/index.cfm?action=getLocator&siteid=214152&chapter=DE1FC82&appSectionid=2276&groupid=51817&subgroupid=4559&componentid=3789&make=28&model=Firebird&year=1991&catalogid=2

iansane · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject:

Aaron, Where is that company located?

Demon · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject:

not sure but they get a damn lot of of business, and they ship pretty quick... if you have no other alternative, i suggest it.

they've got the best deals on LS7 clutches Surprised

miamivice · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject:

and how did you find out about these guys?

have you tried hawks third gen or one of those other companies that have ads on tgo?

Demon · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject:

was looking for an LS7 clutch with an LS2 flywheel and all the goodies like TO bearings etc... these guys had the best prices hands down... great for stock replacement things... or at least, stock from one thing to replace/upgrade in my thing Laughing

also, when giving somebody a ride, they broke off my swing out cupholder on my center console, and unfortunately to replace the cup holder, you have to replace the entire lower half of the center console... so I opted to buy a spiffing brand new one for $130 rather than buy a used one for like $90

you can get your hands on all sorts of nifty crap there

miamivice · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject:

so is there a diffrence in bumpers between the 91 - 92 firebird forumlas and the trans ams? i think the forumulas had the blackout plate for the foglights. classic industries sells a "1991 - 1992 firebird front bumper cover" brand new and its a little over 600 bucks. just another option Shocked

iansane · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject:

The gfx birds do have different bumpers that have protrusions hanging on either side where the fender gfx flow into. The problem is almost all base models have the gfx and calling JYs it's hard to convince them that the TA and base model ones are the same. They just keep saying they don't have TA bumpers, only base model ones and won't check to see if they have the gfx.

miamivice · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject:

tell them to go buy this and use it for parts:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/car/226708129.html

paranoid · Member Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 33

wow im about to spend 500-600$ on my bird id just go buy that if i could get insured on a v8

Demon · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject:

Wolffy · Member Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 375 Location: Spokane

hey Ian

check this out, hopefully it is of some help to ya

http://spokane.craigslist.org/pts/227820850.html

if the guy has parts, i could get them from him for ya & then we could maybe figure something out from there

good luck
Wolffy

iansane · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:52 am Post subject:

Thanks for the lookout wolffy!

It looks like they've found all the regular parts. The hard to find ones are now giving them trouble. Foglights and Marker lights. For some reason the turn signal light that I don't have is the one that GM discontinued. Yeah. Great. And new foglights are $87 a piece. I'm sure mainly because they're 91-92 only piece.

Yehaw.

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:59 am Post subject:

at least she's coming along Ian.....

that's better than nothing.....

at least they weren't total bitches to you like they were to Brandon...(being a Vert, that might be part of the reason...)

hang in there buddy....at least you get a free paint job out of the deal.

iansane · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:03 am Post subject:

I can't believe they're totalling B's car. That's nuts.

Free...not really. To get them to match the driver side with the front and blend it all together I'm having to pay out of pocket. Which seriously f***s up my financial standing right now. The previous "estimate" was $600 for painting the driver side to match and now it's going up because he didn't "see" the gouges in the rear quarter. Great.

miamivice · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:50 am Post subject:

hey bud,

is that the 'repaird' nose? why are those lights down in the fog light opening? Confused

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject:

Do you have comprehensive on the birdie Ian? If so, what's the deductable?

why is the paint job out of pocket? wouldn't they spray the whole car to make it all blend properly?

Shrug

good luck either way.....at least you'll get your car back at least 90% repaired properly.

Xophertony · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject:

even with the car looking like it has been half parted those wheels and brakes look awsome. Smile

she will be back again.

why is the nose two different colors? or is that just the lighting in the photo?
why are you having to pay out of pocket for painting? that sounds like BS to me.

aaron_sK · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject:

Hey, they left one half of the winky intact. Wink

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject:

They should blend it to match period. That's part of fixing it to how it was.