here we go again
i have read through the post regarding grants manifold problem and to a extent it is true,grant orderd a manifold through us a tublar one and there was quite a delay in grant receiveing this mainly down to our exhaust manifold fabricator cutting his finger off.
I think grant waited about 6 weeks for the manifold to arrive and when it did the flange was twisted so grant then sent the manifold back for this problem to be rectified we rectified this problem and grant decided to get another manifold from another company at this point we then agreed to sell the manifold to another one of our customers to reimburst grant which was also a pain in the arse getting the other customer to pay for grants manifold, around this time grant decided on the idea for us to get him a set of teins which we agreed on, this went back and to for a while we were trying to get money for the manifold to pay for the teins which never occured.
This sittuation was still going on arround christmas time and this was the time i left dp and new people came in one of them whome was my old buisness partner who was up to date on the grant manifold situation.The comment of do you know who i am was not me i wasnt even there.
I have a lot of respect for grant and he is one of the nicest and patient customers i have had to deal with i even went up to i think vvs irvine at oulton park thinking it was grant to see whether the whole manifold problem had been sorted out and i was once again in a position to help.
I left dp at the end of 08 to concentrate on family and to join back up with my dad dave perry snr and do something again together as he had gone into early retirement in 07 thats why you now have dd autosports.
As for the dp-dpv as from the end of 08 it has had nothing to do with me nor my dad but at the time of grants problem i was there at the beging but not at the end.
Over the years i have seen the way these forums work and understand why people express there comments we have been running tuning facilites for 18 years which is a long time it is hard to please everyone all the time but we do try.
I beleive grant is not at a financial loss but i am personnally sorry for the iconveinence he was put through for my part.
i written this a few days ago grant on another section
heres what really happened
read this if you are considering using dp motorsport for parts or tuning...
Last year i bought a tubular manifold from this company .after my engine was built we went to fit it and it had 2 major faults
1 it wouldnt line up to the holes at the engine
2 it didnt fit the turbo
the holes were miles out
i sent it back to them to be told they will fix it (bearing in mind it took months to arrive in the first place i said no thanks)
after lots of calls later dave finally agreed to exchange it for a set of coilovers then he decided he wasnt doing this till he fixed and sold my manifold
i gave them the benefit of the doubt and agreed .weeks went buy and after another load of calls dave and alan told me the coilovers were on their way
another few weeks went buy and no coilovers i called again to be told "sorry mate there is a delay they will be with you next week"
next week came and no coilovers i called again (by this point i was getting ready to go to japan for a month) dave at dp told me "no probs mate when you get back they will be here waiting for you"
a month later i got back called dp and was told they will be with me next week
next week came and you guessed it no coilovers so i called
dp told me they were ordered so i called the supplier and they told me they weren,t ordered at all
i called alan at dp motorsport again and asked why they were telling porkies
numerous calls and arguments later they told me to go and buy the coilovers and they would refund me by a chq so i did
finally after another load of calls the chq did turn up and yes you guessed it bounced !
after the holiday new year period i called again and some new guy answered the phone telling me he owned the company now but he would sort it out he told me to call back next week so i did
he took my details and told me he would post me a chq and
you are right no chq arrived so i called again and was told this time to f@ck off in a very aggresive tone and not to call them again
please note this is the cut down version it goes on longer but im just trying to let you all know what this company are like the will lie and lie and lie ..there are plenty other good tuners out there who will not con you
