Mike Tolbert pays $3,900 bill in change

[LA_Panther]

 ... kinda petty. Especially if you have the money like Tolbert. Talk about going out of your way to make a stupid point ... People like that crack me up.

That's a lot of money for some of us, but not for Tolbert. He could have let it go. For my income, I generally won't make a big stink for anything under $50. Even after $50, I may let it go if it is not worth the aggravation. 

 

[Silent Majority]

3 hours ago, Meatloaf said:

Really disappointed in Tolbert. I've had tons of work done at this shop and I've seen what they were doing to his car.

These guys are very professional and good at what they do and take any form of payment except the cashiers check that Tolbert tried to pay with.

He has a early 70s model Cadillac that he wanted to swap a modern ls3 into. While the engine bay is big enough to easily hold the engine the wiring harness alone that it takes to make a modern day engine talk to a car from the 70s makes it a little more than a simple swap. Despite all that they were able to swap the motor as asked by Tolbert. The issue was the aftermarket suspension he had on the car. He had 26 inch rims on the car and a suspension lift to make them fit..which worked fine with the old 350 motor in the car. But with the new ls3 being much lighter it caused the front end to sit much higher. When they told him it was going to be extra to complete the job because of these issues he wanted them to do the job for free because he was Mike Tolbert...sorry for the mini rant but these guys have always taken great care of my car and do amazing work.

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Who tf doesn't take a cashier's check? Lmbao. Something is fishy.

[csx]

13 minutes ago, Silent Majority said:

Who tf doesn't take a cashier's check? Lmbao. Something is fishy.

people who know that cashiers checks are a significant fraud and scam risk

 

I know Craigslist advises that you do not accept them.

[Nemesis]

I think Tolbert could have paid the bill with a credit  card and been done with it. I own a small business and I wouldn't take a $4000.00 check from  a customer that was acting suspicious about paying his bill. If you give the customer the merchandise and you accept the check  you are pretty much on your own. 

If Tolbert was in the right then he should have contacted an attorney and let the attorney handle it for him.

[Silent Majority]

56 minutes ago, csx said:

people who know that cashiers checks are a significant fraud and scam risk

 

I know Craigslist advises that you do not accept them.

It's obviously Mike Tolbert. A phone call to the financial institution takes all of a couple minutes. I use cashier's check for business all the time. A personal check may be different. 

[mc52beast]

Should have had that extra weight on him when that Bronco stoned him.

[Kevin Greene]

Did he fumble the coins?

[truthjuice]

LOL this is hilarious. 

[Guest Barry McCaulkinor]

Being in that hobby I can tell you that motion lab has a history of doing poo work and having poo practices.  I side with Tolbert here. 

[RickyManningJr]

Tolbert sucks.

[LinvilleGorge]

There are soooooo many shitty tune shops out there. Far more good than bad. Most of them are either ran by decent business people who are shitty mechanics or good mechanics who are shitty business people. 

[morgan55]

I wish he would spend this much time and effort in becoming a better football player

[Yaboychris28]

the owner probably watched his super bowl fumbles and wanted to give him a subtle fug you

[amcoolio]

Bottom line, if they didn't do the work, no matter how much labor was wasted (probably not all that much, but I don't know because I'm not there), then you can't charge. If Tolbert's party supplied all the parts like they said, then its basically a 3900 labor cost in which nothing was really done with the car. Company has to write most of it off at that point, or at the VERY VERY minimum stay true to their quote. Or they should have quickly realized that they incorrect parts wouldn't work and ceased working on the car instead of just throwing more labor costs at it.