Let me warn you this is a long post.
OK I have not been on in a while, nothing new on my cart.
Especially when it comes to bad cust service in obtaining parts.
Started out I was given this cart for free; now maybe I understand why.
The crt was an abandoned project, the PO could not get it to run right though he put alot of $$ into it, trying. I know that some of you are local so I will say that I got the thing out of Peotone IL.
1st stop; Mikes Service Center in Watseka. I was down there one day and saw that he had several out there for sale so I figured he may also be a good parts source. Wrong.
He seemed cool at 1st, we looked thru this thick catalog to see what he could get from a company called Nivel; and I asked hin about fenders and such he directed me to the back of his lot where he had a bare frame and body sitting; it was rough but more fixable than my fiberglass; I asked about it and he said that if I took the "whole thing", $20. remember this is a bare frame and fiberglass. no engine gas tank rear end wheels steering electrics nothing.
I was in my old plymouth Fury so I had no way to haul it I figured i'd come back with my truck.
I have been back 3 more times hoping to get it and talked to him via phone several times since and always an excuse; busy, ground too wet to get the bobcat back there, snow etc;
one day I was in there and asked about ordering some parts; gaskets, seals and such; We looked thru teh Nivel book and he took my # and said he'd get them ordered and call; still could not get that cart. All that was good to me was the front fenders. thats IT.
A month goes by, I call him, ask about my parts. He tells me he never ordered them because he needed a deposit. Cmon now he's 40 freakin miles from me and I was THERE standing in his shop not just ordering via phhone; why could he not have said something then?
so I had to make ANOTHER 80 mile round trip to PAY for the parts he ordered; certainly not $63 worth.... the one crank seal I believ was $14. Ridiculous. reed plate gasket $5.00? is that paper gold trimmed? this time I get his son who looks thru the book w/ me and remakes the list his Dad had now 2-3 months prior, all the while grumbling about my wasting time on such a relic I oughtta buy a newer cart. WTF? He puts me in the computer prints out a work order and everything.
so now nearly another month and he calls me saying they are in; I just called him to see if he could dig out that parts cart; (it rained here last nite pretty heavy)
his response? It's not happening some junk dealer is giving him $100/ea for his junk, and claims that I kept lowering the price. BULL$#!T> I never changed the price; I called it like he did and only repeated the price he gave me! so now he wont sell me the parts cart for what we agreed on but I gotta go on another 80 mi round trip to get my ordered parts. what a load of crap. Never again buy there.
Meanwhile I E mailed Nivel and asked directly what they had for my cart that I'd get it from them; their response was that the guys around here (one more story coming) were their dealers and that they would not sell to mee I had to get what I needed thru their dealer. Bull$#!t again I hate companies that don't think guys like us are "worth it";
So one day on my way to my mom's house i was headed thru Peotone and stopped by the cart place up there; and as soon as I told him what I had, Oh that's Todds cart; why don't you junk it"? (he knows the PO and has for years) I have 50 newer carts here you can buy W-T-F????
Is the place in Braidwood, any better?
I know a place in Valpo Ind that has one that looks like it was run over by a semi out back and he also thinks it is gold; no worthy body parts but spares for the clutch engine gas tank and such if I can get it for a decent price which I doubt. and that too is 70 miles away; i ain't running my 12MPG truck out there at $3.65/gallon for a wild goose chase. I happened to be by there one day and "the guy" wasn't there but his assistant seemed to think it would be alot; "the guy" called me like 3 weeks later wanting an "offer" but it didn't sound like scrap price would touch it, even though that is basically what the thing is.
so the question; anyone in the South Chicago suburbs down to about champaign worth anything as far as cart parts? I got another story this one long distance; basically the guy's sister was gonna be there for Xmas and lives in Champaign and offered to send stuff back with her (from Georgia I think) and suddenly fell off the face of the Earth 2 weeks either side of Xmas; and E mails me a month later saying "he went hunting" and wants $100+freight for the parts I am after.. BULL$#!T again! I am about to give up if everyone in golf cart land is like this! I want to fix this thing up. It runs just needs a few gaskets and such, I have a good deal into it myself already, most of this BS is over a left fender that I need. the PO fiberglassed it (knows nothing about the craft) and really made a mess of it; let's bolt a piece of sheet metal to bridge the crack with a dozen 1/4" nuts and bolts and then 'glass over the nuts and bolts....
I dont like mail order since I don't believe in PayPal and refuse to give anyone a credit card number by computer, sorry. Money order thru the mail if I can't be there in person. and I cant see what I am buying; wrong parts, photoshopped parts that are worse junk than what I have already, made to look OK, or pix of the one "next to it" that ain't for sale, (but "just like" the one I'm buying); yeah I have had issues when I havent been able to do stuff in person.
OK I have not been on in a while, nothing new on my cart.
Especially when it comes to bad cust service in obtaining parts.
Started out I was given this cart for free; now maybe I understand why.
The crt was an abandoned project, the PO could not get it to run right though he put alot of $$ into it, trying. I know that some of you are local so I will say that I got the thing out of Peotone IL.
1st stop; Mikes Service Center in Watseka. I was down there one day and saw that he had several out there for sale so I figured he may also be a good parts source. Wrong.
He seemed cool at 1st, we looked thru this thick catalog to see what he could get from a company called Nivel; and I asked hin about fenders and such he directed me to the back of his lot where he had a bare frame and body sitting; it was rough but more fixable than my fiberglass; I asked about it and he said that if I took the "whole thing", $20. remember this is a bare frame and fiberglass. no engine gas tank rear end wheels steering electrics nothing.
I was in my old plymouth Fury so I had no way to haul it I figured i'd come back with my truck.
I have been back 3 more times hoping to get it and talked to him via phone several times since and always an excuse; busy, ground too wet to get the bobcat back there, snow etc;
one day I was in there and asked about ordering some parts; gaskets, seals and such; We looked thru teh Nivel book and he took my # and said he'd get them ordered and call; still could not get that cart. All that was good to me was the front fenders. thats IT.
A month goes by, I call him, ask about my parts. He tells me he never ordered them because he needed a deposit. Cmon now he's 40 freakin miles from me and I was THERE standing in his shop not just ordering via phhone; why could he not have said something then?
so I had to make ANOTHER 80 mile round trip to PAY for the parts he ordered; certainly not $63 worth.... the one crank seal I believ was $14. Ridiculous. reed plate gasket $5.00? is that paper gold trimmed? this time I get his son who looks thru the book w/ me and remakes the list his Dad had now 2-3 months prior, all the while grumbling about my wasting time on such a relic I oughtta buy a newer cart. WTF? He puts me in the computer prints out a work order and everything.
so now nearly another month and he calls me saying they are in; I just called him to see if he could dig out that parts cart; (it rained here last nite pretty heavy)
his response? It's not happening some junk dealer is giving him $100/ea for his junk, and claims that I kept lowering the price. BULL$#!T> I never changed the price; I called it like he did and only repeated the price he gave me! so now he wont sell me the parts cart for what we agreed on but I gotta go on another 80 mi round trip to get my ordered parts. what a load of crap. Never again buy there.
Meanwhile I E mailed Nivel and asked directly what they had for my cart that I'd get it from them; their response was that the guys around here (one more story coming) were their dealers and that they would not sell to mee I had to get what I needed thru their dealer. Bull$#!t again I hate companies that don't think guys like us are "worth it";
So one day on my way to my mom's house i was headed thru Peotone and stopped by the cart place up there; and as soon as I told him what I had, Oh that's Todds cart; why don't you junk it"? (he knows the PO and has for years) I have 50 newer carts here you can buy W-T-F????
Is the place in Braidwood, any better?
I know a place in Valpo Ind that has one that looks like it was run over by a semi out back and he also thinks it is gold; no worthy body parts but spares for the clutch engine gas tank and such if I can get it for a decent price which I doubt. and that too is 70 miles away; i ain't running my 12MPG truck out there at $3.65/gallon for a wild goose chase. I happened to be by there one day and "the guy" wasn't there but his assistant seemed to think it would be alot; "the guy" called me like 3 weeks later wanting an "offer" but it didn't sound like scrap price would touch it, even though that is basically what the thing is.
so the question; anyone in the South Chicago suburbs down to about champaign worth anything as far as cart parts? I got another story this one long distance; basically the guy's sister was gonna be there for Xmas and lives in Champaign and offered to send stuff back with her (from Georgia I think) and suddenly fell off the face of the Earth 2 weeks either side of Xmas; and E mails me a month later saying "he went hunting" and wants $100+freight for the parts I am after.. BULL$#!T again! I am about to give up if everyone in golf cart land is like this! I want to fix this thing up. It runs just needs a few gaskets and such, I have a good deal into it myself already, most of this BS is over a left fender that I need. the PO fiberglassed it (knows nothing about the craft) and really made a mess of it; let's bolt a piece of sheet metal to bridge the crack with a dozen 1/4" nuts and bolts and then 'glass over the nuts and bolts....
I dont like mail order since I don't believe in PayPal and refuse to give anyone a credit card number by computer, sorry. Money order thru the mail if I can't be there in person. and I cant see what I am buying; wrong parts, photoshopped parts that are worse junk than what I have already, made to look OK, or pix of the one "next to it" that ain't for sale, (but "just like" the one I'm buying); yeah I have had issues when I havent been able to do stuff in person.
