DDS Performance

I dropped my car off here at Modified Performance (AKA DDS PERFORMANCE) in September of 2013. I talked to George, who told me he can do what I need him to do which is an easy task for him (his words). Anyway I paid $ 900 a few days later after the car was dropped off, and I haven’t seen the car with any results. I called almost every week for an update and he always told me excuses. Excuses ranging from, «we haven’t had the time to mess with it», «been super busy at the shop», «working on going to Formula Drift», «going to pro am drift event»… etc. I let it go for a couple months considering a friend recommended them, however I believe it was recommended when the Previous owner was still running things there. Anyway around December I got orders to go overseas and George told me he was «going to hit it hard on my car»… guess what, he did nothing. I called him several times through out the month and he ignored my phone calls, ignored my emails, and he even ignored all my Face book messages. He even deleted a comment I put on his company page. After a bunch of phone calls he finally got back with me to tell me, he told me they were going under new ownership and that the car is going to take a bit. He never told me that, he told me he was going to «hit it hard» on the phone. I then talked to him and he told me a lot of people come by asking about my car and if i could sell it. I didn’t bring my car to him to have as free advertisement, i brought it to him to do work on it that he supposedly knew how to do. Anyway I told him not to sell it, and he insisted on me picking a number. I then repeated I refuse to sell it and we left it at that. After that i waited another week to contact him and he gave me more excuses of why he hasn’t touched it, and he gave it to the shop next door to work on. What is the point in paying him if he won’t even work on it… After finally getting a hold of him again, he told me that ever since he went under new ownership, the previous owner took the money and left. That is not a valid excuse why to keep my car for 8 months and not work on it. I gave the money to George, not whoever the previous owner was. It really isn’t my problem he didn’t keep his company finances in check. After he told me that, he told me he would not be able to give me a Refund because of the ownership issue, so all he could do is give me a Warranty, which is useless if the car doesn’t work. Unacceptable to take it out on a paying customer for his mistakes. Recently now in April of 2014… I told him I’m coming very close to leaving the United States for a year and he told me I can pick up my car, and he will work on the Harness while i’m gone and «ship it» to me. So George comes down late at night, drops off my car to my place. At that point I’m just happy to get my car back knowing its not stolen, and the next day I look at my car in the day light and my right fender is messed up, my original harness made for my EMS is ALL HACKED UP, missing my OPTIMA battery and my tuner laptop for my EMS… so I text George and he says its all upstairs in his office because he wanted to keep it all safe. He tells me I can pick it up, so I do so… I get to Modified/​DDS performance shop, and everyone who is there is sitting not doing anything… at the least work on my harness if you don’t have jobs going on in the shop. Learn to run it buddy. Garbage service like they treated me is probably why there isn’t work being done there. Anyway when George sees me, he grabs the Optima battery and it is dirty and way used… which I just bought it brand new when I put it in my car and NEVER USED it since the it never ran with it. Then he pulls out my laptop out from below one of the nissan 240sx’s on a lift. After grabbing those, I asked what is the update on the harness and where is it… George’s answer is, uh I actually don’t know. I asked where is it? he said «I Don’t know. I messaged him». That doesn’t help at all. Me being pretty angry already, driving a million miles across town to find out he lost my stuff I figured I’d just walk away and go home. I get home and look into my laptop and all these different website that I never been on are open. He used my Tuner laptop as his Shop Laptop for internet. Anyway I am now at a $ 900 loss on top of a full harness for my Engine Management System, with a Cracked messed up Passenger side Fender of my car. He is still very unresponsive, and constantly tells me he doesn’t know where its at. Waste of $ 900+, BEWARE, don’t go here unless you want your car to get messed up, parts stolen/​used, and waste several months waiting for something to get done and not. Pretty mad at the situation, but I guess you can’t do anything when shady shops like this one won’t refund you. I have all the documents relating to their horrible service being reported to BBB, feel free to message me if you would like the documents showing these guys are total unprofessionals and do not keep to their word.