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meshmesh

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JAGR33 Grand Master

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I know a few people who were not impressed with his services, but then again sometimes you can't please everybody.....

One bloke who knows his GTR's is definetly Ben from Racepace motorsport.... that's pretty much all he works on!!!

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I know a few people who were not impressed with his services, but then again sometimes you can't please everybody.....

One bloke who knows his GTR's is definetly Ben from Racepace motorsport.... that's pretty much all he works on!!!

Cheers

Thanks Jag,

I know of ben, & believe the boys at ICE are close with him aswell, I think they also use his dyno. I have had some minor work done by ICE & been very happy so far.

JAGR33 Grand Master

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Yeah the boys from Ice have done work on my car before, very impressed with their work (both quality and price). I'm getting a Power FC in the next week or so and taking it straight to Ben's to install and tune.....

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Ben and ICE are the best GTR mechanics and tuners in Melbourne. That is a fact. They are the only people I would trust to work on my car and do a great job and at a fair price. Something i think a lot of other mechanics forget when you mention the three letters G, T and R.

"OH you have a GTR.......Thats gunna cost eleventy Thousand" :P

Did i hear that Promech are the Official HKS distributor for Victoria?

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Promech.....rude and has absolutely no customer service at all.

My cousin was after a HKS BOV adaptor and rang BD4s in Sydney and was told to see Vince from Promech. I went down with him and I just couldnt believe the way he approached us. Basically it was "what do you want, this is how much it is. Take it or get lost!" He needed the adaptor asap so we did end up buying it off him. It came from Sydney anyway so I dont know why BD4s couldnt send it. Then Promech wanted to charge postage from Richmond out to my cousins house, we asked him why couldnt you get BD4s to send it direct, since we paid in full, he replied "thats how we do it" We will never give him business again.

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I saw the guy at promech determine that a car had overheated due to having run very low on coolant. He went to a tap, filled a watering can with COLD water and proceeded to fill the car up.

When the car wouldn't start he immediately determined that it must have a cracked head due to overheating

umm... couldn't have had anything to do with the fact that you just poured cold water into an overheated engine could it?

Turns out the car had just gone into limp home mode, when it cooled down, it started fine luckily for the owner.

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I saw the guy at promech determine that a car had overheated due to having run very low on coolant. He went to a tap, filled a watering can with COLD water and proceeded to fill the car up.

When the car wouldn't start he immediately determined that it must have a cracked head due to overheating

umm... couldn't have had anything to do with the fact that you just poured cold water into an overheated engine could it?

Turns out the car had just gone into limp home mode, when it cooled down, it started fine luckily for the owner.

that sounds like someone you would trust with your car. NOT

meshmesh Mentor

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Promech.....rude and has absolutely no customer service at all. I just couldnt believe the way he approached us. Basically it was "what do you want, this is how much it is. Take it or get lost!"

Your not the first to say that... I was also told something similar.

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I used to use Promech, but the guy just pissed me around so much - once left my car with him for a week with a list of 5 relatively easy things to investigate / fix. When I picked it up, he'd done nothing that I asked for.

Mate had a R33 GT-R, the engine blew a turbo and required a full rebuild. That took the better part of 6 months! Then later he found that the turbos had not been installed properly, with 1 opening the wastegate way ahead of the other.

There was also a problem with tuning a plug-in ECU, can't remember which one - might have been a Link -, but Vince couldn't tune it so he pressured the guy to buy an APEXi (I think). Later, 'Eric' managed to easily re-tune the original plug-in.

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