Forged Performance - My Story

whiddles

Agreed^^^

Zsteve

So to try and get some positive things here, has there been a good install of the GTM TT posted on here by a customer who bought one and had it installed at a shop other than GTMs?

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370Zsteve

+1 rep - mebbe a new thread needs to be made for that, any takers? Anyone?

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Zsteve

well thank you, you got me to the second bar now. The one bar was looking kinda lonely.

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Snakes709

From what i read, 1 or 2 have gotten there kits done by GTM...they were very pleased with the work. 1 guy bought the kit and installed it himself, the kit came well packed and he was pleased. And 2 people went to Forged and got screwed over.

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sylenze

Z1 posted their install of the 370z auto. also HP logic commented on the quality of the GTM kit. r u just posting also just to rattle people's cages as well?

Zsteve

And how would trying to find some good installs be trying to rattle some cages? I was trying to turn the thread around. R U just posting to rattle some cages?

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dpjones

What bugs me the most about some of these replies is.....many are just focusing on the bashed in parts......and saying where is the quality control? Maybe this is because the pictures stand out and they mainly show the damaged parts and such.

There is SO MUCH MORE to the story....I know it is long, but I'm beginning to wonder if some of these posters are just glossing over the pictures instead of reading it. What about all the issues I brought up before ever picking up my car? What about the issues I brought up while I was there? On the drive home? Bad mechanic(s) or not, why was I constantly told "That is normal"? Those words certainly didn't come from the mechanics. What about the wrong turbos or not even hooking up the Knock Amp? What about not fully hooking up the EVC? What about the overcharging on the Down Pipes and Wastegates? I could keep going and going......

All I ask is that before bashing others, whether it is myself or GTM, please make sure you take the time to read the whole story.

dpjones

I just wanted to say "THANK YOU" to everyone out there that has sent me positive replies and PMs. I simply don't have the time to reply to everyone of them individually....not to mention this is on two other forums as well. This has been a crazy long road, and at times has consumed me.....ask my wife or my boss Hopefully the end is in sight and I will finally have a TT G37 before my brand new car is 2 or 3 model years old

To the haters....oh well....what can you do...I'm not on here looking for sympathy and I have thick skin

G37Sam

So the poor guy shares his experience, and gets 4 pages worth of douchebag posts? How pathetic

This is not a 100$ job gone wrong, it's probably months worth of OP's allowance just wasted. He's reviewing his experience not asking for anyones pity.. just like he would've done if his install went perfect.. it's just a review with pix

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XwChriswX

Couldn't agree more, that's all this is. I recommend the thread be locked and all posts that aren't the OP's and Forged's responses be deleted so only the facts are left. Same as Juan's thread.

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nuTinmuch

I agree with this.

The "tough skin" posts are absolutely hilarious. (protip: the itg attitude died in a ditch years ago, you aren't funny nor are you edgy.)

People rave about shops when they do solid work and post long reviews and nutswingin' articles praising them, yet when someone complains about a shop like this everyone whines. I was recently talking to a shop around here that ends up fixing/finding a lot of poor STi/Evo builds from other "highly praised" shops. In reality those shops have **** for work, but because everyone sees a certain name and rejoices it is impossible to say anything negative about them -- even when you have damning evidence. Of course, that is mainly NASIOC/evo-m but I think we can draw some similarities here.

The reality is that if you don't post up the bad experiences then shops will just continue to screw the customer (that's us) over. A failed install on an expensive machine is just inexcusable.

It isn't like this is a poorly constructed post, either. It is worded fairly well plus it has plenty of pictures documenting what the dude is saying.

While I can't say for sure who is in the right or wrong here, I will agree that Forged/GTM seem like a minefield until everything clears.

OP,Forged,GTM: GL, hope everything gets sorted out.

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OMG37

Agreed. I'm quite surprised at how different the opinions shared in this thread are from the G37 one. 3/4 of this thread have been nothing but people arguing about who knows more about the law rather than any interest in the story.

RCZ

At this point I'm only doing it to rattle your cage man. Its too easy because you dive right in every time. Sorry. I could care less about GTM. Chill out, I'm sure we would be cool if this were a bar and not a forum.

Forged though, tsk tsk tsk.

I think this one should end up in court because the OP should get ALL of his money back. Its one thing to make an honest mistake, this is something completely different though. This is negligence, not only did the OP get their car screwed up, they got something they bought screwed up.