Date:         Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:16:16 -0800
Reply-To:     Shawn Wright <swright@SLS.BC.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Shawn Wright <swright@SLS.BC.CA>
Organization: Shawnigan Lake School
Subject:      Alert: Avoid this repair shop! (Duncan, BC)
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com
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Hi everyone,

I've been off list for a while now, but thought I should warn you all of a very
BAD experience my uncle had with a local VW repair shop in Duncan, BC.

The shop name is AutoVolks, and the owner is Bill Court, aka Bill Douglas.

My uncle's 89 Westy had been at this shop since May of this year, after he
paid in advance for an engine rebuild and trans rebuild. During this time he
has been fed countless stories, and even had the van "broken into" while it
was parked behind the shop, since the moron left the engine lid off with no
engine/trans in it.

To make a long story short, it took a flat deck, and a call to the local police to
get his van back, with a partially rebuilt engine, missing many wires and
hoses, and a tranmssion still in pieces with a trashed R&P.

Since my uncle spoke to the trans shop who had done the rebuild (back in
June!) on his trans (on behalf of AutoVolks), it it clear that his good trans went
to someone else.

Needless to say, legal action is pending. And not surprisingly, this guy is well
known to local police.

Thanks very much to the local list members who warned me against using
this guy back in April - a thumbs up to AutoSpiel in Victoria, who did a rebuild
on my trans in 3 days and came in under budget.


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Shawn Wright
Computer Systems Manager
Shawnigan Lake School
http://www.sls.bc.ca
swright@sls.bc.ca