OK, first off, I am a really laid back guy when it comes to matters of trust and money, or whatever....My wife says to a fault..

I had a BBC at a machine shop for some "de tuning" for lack of a better term.

I had some .030" LS6 pistons removed from a set of rods and some forged flattops installed in there place, rotating assembly balanced, crank polished yada yada...

My pop picked up my stuff last week because I was working 12 hour days and just could not seem to get it taken care of.

Going through my parts last night I realize I did not get my old pistons back (I say old but they had about ten hours on them). So I called the machinist and left a message on his machine that I needed those back because I was going to hang on to them for my buddy who was building an E85 motor.

I don't get a call back. So I called my dad just to see if maybe he still had them in his truck, he said no, but he talked to the machinist this evening and he says he sold my pistons........... What???


Have you ever heard of such a thing? I need to have more work done and he does a great job, but really? The pistons are worth about $250 in my mind, I know I paid $450 for them in 2001 and had them weight matched and coated which cost another $160....

How would you handle this?

I'm thinking he needs to build my daughters Toyota V6 for the price of "on the house", but now I have a trust issue....

How would you guys play it? Right now I really want to just write it off, but something inside me feels really wrong and the more I thought about it, the more pissed off I get.

Thanks.

GT

sorry but you shouldve recieved your parts back.  its not his place to sell *YOUR* property.  id get bbb involved.  i wouldnt even ask for money or some discount, etc.  get your shit back.  thats 100% unacceptable. 

ok in my oppion, i would go down there and stick around and flat ass ask what are you going to do about this??? dont give him options   .make him come up with them!!!!! he was hoping you would not care about them!!! and what he did was wrong!!!!! but its done so now you need to make him fix his f--k up!!!! sorry that happened. when you go down there try not to get mad or get confrontational just walk in and tell him whats done is done , but your going to fix this on on my end . you made money off my parts!!!!!  good luck!!! let me know what happens???

Glenn, all your parts should have been returned to you, I'd say you got credit com'in your way. Hope it works out,give him a chance to right the wrong .

And....California BAR rules designate your old / used parts must be presented / retained for the customer.

i dont know anything about law or anything but this guy profited off you twice.. and when he sold ur own parts for profite he to of broke  a law.. i would get my money back from him and sadly i would never go to him again.. it really only takes one bad experience to make you really see how someone really is.

this dates back to Aug...what ever happend?? 

And....California BAR rules designate your old / used parts must be presented / retained for the customer.

I hate to be a downer because this situation sucks.

But the customer must request the parts be returned at "time of write up"
otherwise if the shop tosses them and the customer wants them later and the shop can't produce them its not on the dealer.

Chris