problem with local company

[sweetthing69]

Has anyone one else had any bad dealings with DC Truck Parts in Vancouver, Wa?

I had a really bad experience earlier this year and its time I got this off my chest because now my baby is completely undrivable. I bought my '69 GMC swb already lowered with known cut coils from a really great person I met through craigslist (a private party). It had the usual clunk in the front end which didn't effect the way it drove just was there on sharp corners. After driving it for 14 months the rear leaf springs started to seperate so I decided with my tax return to go ahead and rebuild the front end, new rear leafs, and possibly exhaust work. I didn't have the time or the tools to do the work so I got several quotes from shops and picked the one I thought was best due to the knowledge of that era of trucks and what he promised could get done and in the time frame. He quoted me $1500 for a front disc brake swap, swap rear leafs for a coil springs, all new parts (tie rods, bushings, rotors, pads, ball joints, wheel bearings, and coils)..all to be done in one week. What happenned is I got all used parts (100% was badly used and spray painted to look new so upon inspection looked ok), they cut my exhaust off 2 feet behind my header collectors and threw the exhaust in the bed, took off my rear bumper refusing to put back on claiming my existing hitch receiver was in the way, and then charged me $1700 total and would not give me a receipt for work done. I had to go to another shop to have my exhaust put back on for another $100 for just labor. They did put my bumper back on after I threw a huge fit that I drove it in there legal that it fit fine before and it should go back on, he kept refusing but instead insisted I cut the hitch off which with time restraints I agreed to...it took 2 full weeks instead of the agreed one week. Another cost I had to endure was the extra cost of rims and tires which were new and they wouldn't put the beauty rings and caps on I had to do it when I got home...and someone stole my chevy bowtie antennae ball.

Just since April my rotors have a super bad groove in the back, the pads are down to the rivets, the passenger side wheel bearing is growling and froze up, the ball joints are loose and sloppy, and both front tires are showing cords. He won't stand behind any of his work and refuses to acknowledge he did shoddy work. I now have to put another $300 in parts into the front end and $150 into tires just to enjoy driving it again. This was my daily driver for 14 months solid with not one problem just some typical old truck clunks and now since doing what I thought would be an upgrade I had to stop driving it after 3 months and haven't driven it since the beginning of August (school aged kids have a higher priority then fixing it) and I have resorted to driving my freebie 92 Tercel which I really don't like.

Has anyone else had bad luck with this company? I have never in my life let someone else work on my trucks and this was my last time, lesson learned.