SoCal Jet Boats
Tech Talk => Interior => Topic started by: AQUAHOLIC on June 29, 2009, 04:23:26 PM
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so we were floating down the river and hanging onto the side of my boat. when one of my friends foot hit something coming out of the bottem of my boat.... it was two screws from the interior shop sticking right out the bottom of my boat. I contacted them today and they were very sorry and said they would take care of it. where should i go for something like this and how much would it cost.
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You gotta be kidding...
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Wow what did they use 5 inch screws?
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You HAVE to be joking, I cringed moving my hot foot and screwing down the PD control, and I don't know what I'm doing, lol.
Ray
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that happen to my buddy too.....But they screwed it to the trailer bunks :banghead: ;D
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that happen to my buddy too.....But they screwed it to the trailer bunks :banghead: ;D
Sad that somebody could be that dumb, but kinda funny!
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To top it off, it was a brand NEW boat ;D
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well you guys are no help!! lol. i think i am just going to take it to the fiberglass shop and see how much it will cost.
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When I bought my tahiti a couple of years ago it had new interior and the guy had the same story. He said when he got it back from the shop he went to launch the boat and it was screwed to the bunk rails with four ( two on each side ) 3 inch drywall screws and they fixed it and gave him half his money back!
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i would screw their hands to the bottom of the boat then go for a spin around the lake
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i would screw their hands to the bottom of the boat then go for a spin around the lake
Yeah what he said!!
Don't make brad get all internet gangster on your ass! ;D
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so no one knows how much a fix like this would cost from a boat shop?
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My question is, shouldnt the upholstery shop take care of all the damages and arrangments to get it fixed? Thats the way you made it sound in the first post anyway.
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take it to the shop of YOUR choice and get an estimate.
dont let them decide who gets to do it. for all you know they will have some random julio do it.
what do you do in a year or 2 when it starts leaking?
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take it to the shop of YOUR choice and get an estimate.
dont let them decide who gets to do it. for all you know they will have some random julio do it.
what do you do in a year or 2 when it starts leaking?
You could do this but dont count on a full reimbursment, especially if they have someone at thier shop that does fiberglass work. Think of it like if you were the business owner that one of your employees did this. If they do fix thier own work, ask for a written warranty on the glass work that they perform. Even if you were to go to small claims on this the judge would require you to let the business make things right before any monetary settlement or refund is paid or even thought about in court. Give the business the benefit of the doubt. If they were really that bad then I doubt they would still be in business.
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ok i will be more clear. the family business is fiberglass. grandpa in law owns hannemann fiberglass. so on that point i want to know how much to charge the interiro shop for the damage they caused to my boat. i put a 8 inch hole in the bottom of my boat 2 years ago when i hit a rock i was back on the water the next day. I can do fiberglass i just dont know what to charge them for my time and headache to fix something they did.
hope that is more clear. and i hope they dont read this. lol
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You could do this but dont count on a full reimbursment, especially if they have someone at thier shop that does fiberglass work. Think of it like if you were the business owner that one of your employees did this. If they do fix thier own work, ask for a written warranty on the glass work that they perform. Even if you were to go to small claims on this the judge would require you to let the business make things right before any monetary settlement or refund is paid or even thought about in court. Give the business the benefit of the doubt. If they were really that bad then I doubt they would still be in business.
that would be if they do glass work. he was asking what it would cost to have the work done.
even if they do glass work, would you want them doing it after seeing their level of attention to detail?
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ok i will be more clear. the family business is fiberglass. grandpa in law owns hannemann fiberglass. so on that point i want to know how much to charge the interiro shop for the damage they caused to my boat. i put a 8 inch hole in the bottom of my boat 2 years ago when i hit a rock i was back on the water the next day. I can do fiberglass i just dont know what to charge them for my time and headache to fix something they did.
hope that is more clear. and i hope they dont read this. lol
Thats awesome that you can do it yourself but to protect yourself take the boat back and let them asess the damage they did before you tear anything apart. Did this upholstery shop come with a good recomendation or did you just "wing" it? Not that it would make any difference because everyone is gonna make a mistake sometime. Im sure they have to have some type of insurance for mishaps such as this. For a price to charge them I would multiply the going hourly rate by the estimated time and take the cost of the materials to be used and double that for the total price. Hope everything pans out for you.
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i am going to take some pics of the screws this weekend. the interior shop already said they dont do fiberglass work. their shop is in bakersfield and my boat is in blythe. not exactly down the street. so i am basicly stuck getting it done in blythe or doing it myself.
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Spare yourself the headache and have someone do it for you there in blythe and have them send the invoice to the shop in bako.
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why pay someone else to do it?(Leadsled) When tony will do a better job, Being it's his own boat..... ;D
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why pay someone else to do it?(Leadsled) When tony will do a better job, Being it's his own boat..... ;D
x2 i would just get a "legitimate" quote for the job. thens theres no questions about what it "costs" to fix.
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My question is, shouldnt the upholstery shop take care of all the damages and arrangments to get it fixed? Thats the way you made it sound in the first post anyway.
So you like people that fuk up thing the first time to fix it the second or third or ect.
Our upholstey guy give us our money back to keep our business..But he said that he would do all the work on our boat no one else. >:D
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So you like people that fuk up thing the first time to fix it the second or third or ect.
Our upholstey guy give us our money back to keep our business..But he said that he would do all the work on our boat no one else. >:D
I had a tranny job gone bad a while back. I took the shop to small claims. In order for me to pursue anything (according to california state law) I had to give the vehicle back to them for a court prescribed time limit for them to make things right. Did I want to do that? Hell no! But it is what I had to do. I agree with your guy giving the money back and I hope that by doing that he did keep your business. Maybe this will enlighten you somewhat.
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That sucks Tony! :thumbdown: I'm smutting the shop's name every chance I get around here, they fukked me on some seats as well, had to pay my old guy to redo them, and had to eat it as I couldn't make my customer pay for the seats twice. I'd say it's going to take 8 hours @ $85.00 per hour labor and $147.65 in materials, that ought to more than cover your time and headache. With this being found I think I'd be looking over everything they did with a fine tooth comb................
Let me know if I can help, I can always whip you out an invoice from The Hot Seat, we're a fiberglass company after all...............
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Unfortunately, I've had to correct for errors that have happened at my shop. And in the legaleeze on the back of the invoice it basicly states that if a problem occurs, we require first attempt at repair or to arrange repair at another shop.
I would recommend getting an estimate from a marine repair or body shop as a starting spot. Have Skip give you another estimate at a higher rate and settle with the shop at a fair price between the two.
Good Luck
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Here's my position on it as I read and understand this (Like anyone cares, but here goes). But then, I'm a hardliner on quality work. (Not that I always do such myself, but I am solely accountable for my own mistakes).
The hull of the boat is paramount, kinda like the uni-body construction of a car. If I'da paid someone, or any of us had, to reupholster my car and they cut up parts of the floor and substructure of the vehicle, or drilled holes and ran bolts/screws threatening the integrity of the vehicle well outside the scope of the intended work, I'd be looking for more than just a simple fix. Now you have down time too, and honestly, Tony, you've been unknowingly running an unsafe boat for weeks now.
One of those screws could have caused a major crack or worse at speed. Not likely, but possible. This from a reputable shop?
I understand mistakes happen, they happen every day in my business, and I've even done quite a few on my own boats :banghead:.
I can't tell you how many free appliances, tile jobs, carpet jobs or door installs we have eaten because of these mistakes and my propensity to make the customer happy. It may or may not be an everyday occurrance justifying trash talking the shop. Could just be a newbie or trainee mistake. My point is, you should, and deserve to be compensated for it, and they have now screwed up (Pardon the pun) an otherwise cherry hull! Whether they fix it or not, there should still be something off your original bill IMHO.
Ray
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And in the legaleeze on the back of the invoice it basicly states that if a problem occurs, we require first attempt at repair or to arrange repair at another shop.
There you go bkplesh!! :banghead:
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I AM GOING to take my boat by the local shop in blythe. well first i am going to do more investigating i found the screws at the end of the weekend last weekend and then my friends boat broke so i worked all day on sunday getting that boat working. i am going to find out how this happend tomorrow. i just hope this is not a hard fix and all goes well. i would hate to pull the screws out and then not get a good seal on the hull. plus it looks like where they are coming out i cant get to the top of the hole due to it being below the floor panel.
anyway i like what you guys have mentioned. what i dont want to do is get it fixed at a boat shop for a bunch of money and be out of pocket that cash till the interior shop pays me back.
anyway i will let you guys know whats up.
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Aww C'mon. It aint THAT bad is it?
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no it is not that bad. just two screws
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So are you gonna give us a shop name that did this to you? I am looking into upolstery soon and don't want the same.
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So are you gonna give us a shop name that did this to you? I am looking into upolstery soon and don't want the same.
As long as you don't use STAR upholstery in Bakersfield, you'll be fine.