My car has been in the shop for almost 2 1/2 year (2 years, 4 months to be exact) with no estimated time of a finish date. It should have been finished a long time ago.
For the past 2 years I have been calling the owner/builder to try and get updates and time of a finish date. Every time that I have called him I have been told by the assistant that he is either out, out of town, or really busy. I have asked if he could call me back at his earliest convience. Well most of the time I will never get a call back and have to call back again four or five time just to get a small update from the assistant. A month will normally go by before I call again to get an update and its usally the same thing. So, some times I will drive the two hours to his shop just to check on things and to my suprise it looks like very little has been done and there are different cars in the shop from the last time I visted.
Now lets fast forward to Thursday. I called up to the shop and asked if I could speak with the owner/builder and get an update. The assistant tells me he is out and that he will leave a message for him to call me back on Friday. Friday comes and goes and no call. Mind you now that it has been well over a month and a half since I last spoke with the shop and I'm getting a little fed up with calling up there and getting no answers. So now I am asking for HELP on what I should do. Should I call my attorney to get things moving? Should I goto the shop and pay him another visit and leave disappointed yet again? Just drive up there with the trailer and take my car back and pay him for what work that he has done? Should I just man up and let it sit there longer?
Any and all advice is appreciated. I am leaving the name of the shop out of this so please don't ask me who it is.
For the past 2 years I have been calling the owner/builder to try and get updates and time of a finish date. Every time that I have called him I have been told by the assistant that he is either out, out of town, or really busy. I have asked if he could call me back at his earliest convience. Well most of the time I will never get a call back and have to call back again four or five time just to get a small update from the assistant. A month will normally go by before I call again to get an update and its usally the same thing. So, some times I will drive the two hours to his shop just to check on things and to my suprise it looks like very little has been done and there are different cars in the shop from the last time I visted.
Now lets fast forward to Thursday. I called up to the shop and asked if I could speak with the owner/builder and get an update. The assistant tells me he is out and that he will leave a message for him to call me back on Friday. Friday comes and goes and no call. Mind you now that it has been well over a month and a half since I last spoke with the shop and I'm getting a little fed up with calling up there and getting no answers. So now I am asking for HELP on what I should do. Should I call my attorney to get things moving? Should I goto the shop and pay him another visit and leave disappointed yet again? Just drive up there with the trailer and take my car back and pay him for what work that he has done? Should I just man up and let it sit there longer?
Any and all advice is appreciated. I am leaving the name of the shop out of this so please don't ask me who it is.