Post his name on Twitter with pic-or threaten to if they don't clean up the weld. Dwight E. Giles Jr. Wickford RI
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 3:50 PM Dimitri Seretakis <dsereta...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I did but it fell on deaf ears. Oh well. From now on NOBODY will be > welding on my or my family members’ cars. Period. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 3, 2020, at 3:11 PM, Dwight Giles <dwight.gi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would definitely complain to the repair shop. > Dwight E. Giles Jr. > Wickford RI > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:06 PM Dimitri Seretakis <dsereta...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > >> Not sure. Looks like mig not sure if with shielding gas or flux core. >> Paint covered up the possibility of seeing uncleaned welding slag. Not >> only does the weld look like dog shit but that area was originally joined >> together with flanges and bolted together. That’s not how the repair was >> done. He slipped a piece over one end and into the other thus reducing the >> diameter of the exhaust and creating a local obstruction in the pipe which >> will rob some power from the engine. In addition, this dog shit welded mass >> cannot be unbolted and separated as was initially intended. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jan 3, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Dwight Giles <dwight.gi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> NOT a Dimitri weld. Was it ever slagged? >> >> Dwight Giles Jr. >> Wickford RI >> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 1:53 PM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >>> My mom took her 2005 G500 to the most esteemed Indy Mercedes shop in the >>> Boston area to have a few things repaired including the exhaust (I will not >>> name names). To be fair, I like the owner and I feel, based on my >>> experience with him that he does a great job with the mechanical repairs. >>> His “welder” is subcontracted. I expressed my dissatisfaction to him >>> regarding the quality of the welded exhaust repair but he politely defended >>> the welder and gave no apologies and didn’t ask for me to show him what I >>> found unsatisfactory. There was another area that was repaired in a similar >>> manner. The total cost was $425 for the welding. What do you guys think of >>> this repair? Am I being too fussy here? >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone_______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
