Look back in this thread and it distinctly states $150 for NA and $250 for FI. Its still there Joe. Read through this tread carefully, it historically lists the chain of events. I can also add the numerous PM's I sent you where the return communications was vague at best. Sorry but I wholly disagree with your reply and as a result you force me to publish my PM I sent you. I let it stand on its own merits.
I do apologize for the Cobra comment but no where did I see his name on the White board, there was an empty space and you wrote in a name after 1PM so now I assume it was the Cobra guy.
Thanks though for replying, would have been cordial to get a reply to my PM first though.
I still stand by my thoughts:
So to summarize the event;
- Unorganized
- Poorly communicated
- Confusion as to times, dates and pricing
- Deception/misconception not sure which order, but I think unintentional.
- Un-organization probably caused undue strife and stress to Doug from Bama, it was an unrelenting schedule of tuning for Doug.
Phil, you are correct, it does state $150 for Na and $250 for FI, It also states that is what doug was charging for tuning, I do need to charge something for the use of our $50K+ Dyno, don't you think?
As for the Cobra Guy, he was on the list at 8:45AM and pulled his name off if time started to be an issue, Doug told him that it would not be an issue and he put it back on! He was willing to give up his spot for someone else to get a tune, sounds like a hell of a guy to me.
Your statement also shows me that you showed up at 1pm when you've already said it was to start at 9am on a first come first serve basis.
All in all out of the 9 cars on Sat. and the 6 cars on Friday it went smoothly.
Phil, I don't know how many Dyno days you've been to but they are all pretty much the same. The tuner makes the choices on what he wants done and the shop owner (myself in this case) makes the arrangements that he( the tuner) Needs.
As for pricing, If you would do some checking, Even if Doug or Choose to charge $400 for a dyno tune with up to 3 tunes, this is a DEAL in itself.
I have had Jerry W. (one of, if not the best tuner n the country) come to houston for Dyno days with only 20 Slots aval. and 50 people willing to pay his $550.00 asking price ontop of the Dyno charge!
Those of us that Own Dyno's pay a Pretty Price for them ( $40K-to over 100K) for a piece of equipment that sits unless we are using it for tuning. The tuning software we use is sold for more than $5K and requires yearly updates that cost more. This is all useless unless we have taken the time to Learn to tune a car Correctly.
Again, I am sorry you had a bad time. I do know now that you have a medical condition that prevents you from staying out in the heat too long, if you would have said something to us, we might have made an arrangement and asked those in front of you to see if they minded giving up their spot for you so we could get your car done, but you failed to say anything to those that were working the event.
In closing, and this is for everyone, Me Cody and Doug have spoken about it, and have made the choice to do another day soon, but when the weather is a bit cooler. We are doing this for those that Signed up but had something come up and could not make it.
Keep a watch as it will be sometime in DEC. so we can have some cooler temps and better air for tuning.
